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The Fedora 39 Release Has Been Held Up By Raspberry Pi Bugs  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of ...  The New Stack

Intel's New 14th Gen CPUs Get a Boost To Gaming Performance ...  Slashdot

With the new AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Zen 4 mobile processor powering the likes of the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4, I was curious about the performance impact of employing full disk encryption. Here are some benchmarks looking at the performance cost to enabling full disk encryption versus not utilizing any disk encryption while running Fedora Workstation on the new ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD laptop.

What Linux kernel maintainers do and why they need your help  ZDNet

What Linux kernel maintainers do and why they need your help  ZDNet

Building off the recent release of OSPRay 3.0 with initial GPU acceleration support, OSPRay Studio has now been updated against this new version. As a reminder, OSPRay Studio is Intel's open-source interactive visualization and ray-tracing application...

Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 0.13 With Xe GPU Acceleration ...  Phoronix

M17: New cheap gaming handheld powerful enough to emulate ...  Notebookcheck.net

Ubuntu Mentioned in Official Doctor Who Spin-Off Series  OMG! Ubuntu!

Window Maker Live: When less is more, but more is also ... more?  The Register

GOG's Halloween Sale is live with Days Gone now available  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux is looking at possibly transitioning from Zlib to Zlib-NG for this widely-used compression library. This tentative change request is filed in part by Intel software engineers looking to enhance the Zlib performance on modern processors...

Fedora To Possibly Transition From Zlib To Zlib-NG For Better ...  Phoronix

Point-and-click mystery adventure Three Minutes to Eight is out now  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux becomes foundational operating system ...  ITPro

There were many interesting talks last week at XDC 2023 in Spain around Rusticl, the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver, the Raspberry Pi graphics driver, RADV ray-tracing, AMD color management and HDR with the Steam Deck / Gamescope, and others. One of the other talks many Phoronix readers are likely to be interested in is around the state of the Wine Wayland driver...

The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support  Phoronix

Wild! Linux running on RISC-V emulated in Scratch #RISCV #Linux #Scratch  Adafruit Blog

Pixel-art sims game Tiny Life now allows multiple-floor building  GamingOnLinux