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GIMP 2.10.36 was released on Tuesday for this long-running stable series of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative while GIMP 3.0 has been very slow to materialize...

elementary OS 8 Linux distribution roadmap revealed  BetaNews

Following last week's merging of the Bcachefs file-system into Linux 6.7, a secondary set of updates were merged today for adding a few new features as well as some fixes for this newly-merged Linux file-system...

Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug ...  Phoronix

MusicPod, the All-In-One Linux Music App, Has Improved  OMG! Ubuntu!

GIMP 2.10.36 Released with Support for ASE & ACB Palettes, New Gradient, and More  9to5Linux

Open enterprise Linux alternatives initiative  ReadWrite

OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write ...  Phoronix

A very enticing performance optimization was merged yesterday into the OpenZFS codebase to enhance the write performance scalability...

Intel Arc Graphics vs. AMD Radeon vs. NVIDIA GeForce For 1080p ...  Phoronix

Following last month's launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for a sub-$200 graphics card backed by an open-source Linux driver stack I ran some benchmarks looking at the Intel Arc Graphics compute performance against NVIDIA's proprietary driver stack. In today's article is a fresh look at the 1080p Linux gaming/graphics performance across Intel Arc Graphics, AMD Radeon, and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs while using the latest Linux drivers.

Fedora Linux 39 lands, and this latest release is unhinged with speed  ZDNet

Rocky Linux vs. AlmaLinux: Which is better?  TechTarget

Servo Browser Engine Receives Funding To Work On HTML  Phoronix

The Rust-written Servo browser engine that started at Mozilla but now developed by Linux Foundation Europe with contributors from Igalia and other organizations has been enjoying a fruitful 2023...

In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it's becoming iteratively more useful...

Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For ...  Phoronix

Fedora 39 Released with GNOME 45, Linux 6.5 + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

While there is now the 4th Gen EPYC processors with the exciting and vast line-up from the very powerful general purpose Genoa(X) processors and Bergamo for CSPs and very dense servers to Siena for telco/edge, the 3rd Gen EPYC "Milan(X)" processors remain very viable. Especially for those seeking to minimize hardware costs, seeking very mature platforms, or looking to upgrade existing EPYC SP3 servers, the EPYC 7003 series remains quite competitive. Today AMD formally announced six new Milan processors...

AMD Releases Six New EPYC 7003 "Milan" Processors  Phoronix