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Proton Experimental fixes Baldur's Gate 3, improves Nickelodeon All ...  GamingOnLinux

For the past number of months AMD has been actively working on enabling AMD P-State Preferred Core functionality for Linux so that their modern processors can communicate "preferred" cores to the Linux kernel scheduler for making better decisions around task placement and ultimately ensuring best performance of Ryzen and EPYC processors running on Linux. This week they are up to their 11th take on these kernel patches...

AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of P-State Preferred Core Patches For Linux  Phoronix

It's been a number of years since many in the Linux/open-source space have been excited by the Jolla smartphone efforts with their failed smartphone/tablet devices and more recently focusing their Linux-based Sailfish OS devices for running on existing devices. The latest chapter in Jolla is the former management acquiring the Jolla business...

Jolla's Former Management Acquires The Business  Phoronix

NixOS 23.11 Rolls Out with 18,700 Updated Packages  Linuxiac

Huxley — Freelance job Linux Engineer With Infrastructure, Storage ...  free-work.com

digiKam 8.2 Open-Source Photo Management App Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

How to Use the traceroute Command on Linux  How-To Geek

NixOS 23.11 “Tapir” Released with the GNOME 45 Desktop and Wi-Fi 6 Support  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max  Phoronix

Gigabyte (Giga Computing) recently sent over their G242-P36 HPC/AI Arm server platform built for Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors. This 2U server platform can accommodate up to four graphics cards or a mix of GPUs and DPUs if so desired, for maxing out the AI possibilities on Arm. I'll have up a full review on the G242-P36 soon while in this article is a look at the direction of the Ubuntu Server Arm performance from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to now with Ubuntu 23.10 ahead of the important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle.

The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git...

Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable  Phoronix

Build up your game library with Fanatical's Bandai Namco Collection  GamingOnLinux

Godot Engine 4.2 is out now with AMD FSR 2.2 and lots of new ...  GamingOnLinux

Redefining datacenter connectivity with open source networking  The Next Platform

The LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS are now available for testing of this leading open-source office suite...

LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing  Phoronix

The year began with Godot 4.0 making its much anticipated debut and now this open-source game engine project is ending out 2023 with Godot 4.2 as the second revision to the Godot 4.x engine...