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In at least one game running on Linux via Proton Experimental, the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver paired with the latest Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel driver is delivering better performance than NVIDIA's proprietary Linux graphics driver...

A new Long-Term Support version of Cloud Hypervisor was released this week, which is the open-source project originally started by Intel as a cloud-focused and Rust-written VMM that now has wide industry backing including from multiple other CPU vendors...

Back in October the Milk-V Oasis mITX board was announced with this RISC-V board being powered by a 16-core Sophgo SG2380 SoC featuring SiFive-designed cores: 12 P cores and four E cores. While that Milk-V Oasis board isn't expected to ship until Q3'2024, Milk-V shared this week that the SG2380 RISC-V SoC has been revised with additional capabilities...

As part of Intel's ongoing quest for maximizing the compute performance of their GPUs/accelerators, their compiler engineers have proposed introducing a XeGPU dialect for LLVM's MLIR...

Rolling Release Linux Distros Unveiled: What You Need to Know  Linuxiac

ASRock Industrial Reveals NUC Ultra 100 BOX/NUCS Ultra 100 BOX Series  LinuxGizmos.com

There was recently a mini DebConf in Cambridge where the Debian GNU/Linux release team held a spring and figured out some items moving forward, including the dim future for i386 moving forward...

Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6 for Mobile Devices Is Shaping Up Nicely with Support for Applets  9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6 for Mobile Devices Is Shaping Up Nicely with Support for Applets  9to5Linux

New 'NKAbuse' Linux Malware Uses Blockchain Technology to Spread  HackRead

Manjaro 23.1 "Vulcan" Brings Latest Desktop Environments  Linuxiac

KDE Frameworks 5.113 Released for Plasma 5 Users with Various Improvements  9to5Linux

A change merged to the X.Org Server Git for the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver is helping conserve some power consumption at least for Intel graphics by determining the optimal hardware cursor size...

How to zip a folder in Linux  Yahoo Singapore News

How to zip a folder in Linux  Tom's Guide

How to remove Linux from dual boot  XDA Developers

On Friday in addition to Intel submitting their new Xe kernel graphics driver to DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.8, the red team sent in their latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes ahead of this next kernel cycle. Exciting on the AMD side is landing the AMD color management properties support! But on the downside, it's compile-time disabled for the time being...

AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Manjaro 23.1 was released overnight as the newest version of this popular Arch Linux based desktop Linux distribution...