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GIMP 2.99.18 was released today as the last planned development version prior in the long road to GIMP 3.0 that has been a decade in the making for this free software Adobe Photoshop alternative...

Jim Zemlin and the Linux Foundation share not-so-secret open-source sauce  ZDNet

Jim Zemlin and the Linux Foundation share not-so-secret open-source sauce  ZDNet

The first "Power11" patches were queued today into the PowerPC's "next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

IBM Begins Work On Power11 Enablement For Upcoming Linux 6.9  Phoronix

New Linux Malware "Migo" Exploits Redis for Cryptojacking, Disables Security  HackRead

Intel has released a new version of QATlib, their user-space support library for the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) via add-in hardware and recent Xeon Scalable processors...

Intel QATlib 24.02 Brings Support For GEN 5 QAT Devices  Phoronix

New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers  The Hacker News

World of Goo 2 launches in May on the Epic Store - but Linux support from their website  GamingOnLinux

Alternative Operating Systems to Consider Post CentOS Stream 8 EOL  Security Boulevard

Alternative Operating Systems to Consider Post CentOS Stream 8 EOL  Security Boulevard

Intel's Iris Gallium3D driver for modern OpenGL support works on hardware going back to old Broadwell processors with "Gen8" integrated graphics as does the HasVK Vulkan driver for Haswell/Broadwell. But in allowing to focus on the common Skylake "Gen9" graphics and newer/future Intel graphics architectures, pending Mesa code is working to split-off that old Broadwell/Gen8 code. The Gen8 support will continue to be in-tree but separated from the rest of the compiler code so that the code can continue to be improved for newer Intel hardware without risking regressions/breaking those still on Broadwell era processors...

WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering...

Fraunhofer on Tuesday released their latest feature update to the Versatile Video Encoder for open-source H.266/VVC encoding...

Linux Systems Support Engineer - South Africa - Centurion  Bizcommunity.com

Steam users redeemed over $80 million in physical wallet cards in December 2023  GamingOnLinux

What is sudo for Windows, and how do you use it?  Android Authority

Mesa 24.1 Git has landed the initial infrastructure for allowing drivers to choose to using Zink instead for OpenGL via this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. The motivating factor for this latest Mesa work is for using Zink atop the NVK Vulkan driver for newer NVIDIA GPUs...

System76 are giving their Linux laptops a big refresh  GamingOnLinux