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Microsoft’s Windows Reckoning: AI Backlash Fuels Linux Exodus  WebProNews

In addition to showing the need for unifying DRM driver-side APIs within the Linux kernel, NVIDIA's Linux graphics driver team at XDC2025 also showcased the shortcomings of screencasting under Wayland...

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting  Phoronix

Another try to get Wine running after years // wine-proton // Gnu Gentoo linux / gog.com: The Outer Worlds  TechPowerUp

This Windows-on-Linux tool isn’t as good isn't as good as everyone says it is  MakeUseOf

The Qt toolkit is moving away from directly relying on the CPU's RDRAND and RDSEED instructions for random number generation and to instead rely on the OS-supplied entropy...

The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial Xe3P_LPD GPU support for Nova Lake as well as beginning to build out support for the Crescent Island graphics card. Now joining DRM-Next with that initial Intel Xe3P_LPD code for Linux 6.19 is being able to drive displays with that Xe3 hardware...

Linux 6.19 Landing Initial Display Support For Xe3P_LPD / Nova Lake  Phoronix

One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that's happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets...

NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API  Phoronix

How I turn my Linux terminal sessions into beautiful, compact GIFs  How-To Geek

Following the recent idea floated to consider C++20 as the default C++ language dialect by the GCC compiler rather than C++17, it was discovered that the GNU Compiler Collection itself has problems building in C++20 model...

As part of this week's sound subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the PureAudio Lotus DAC5 and other PureAudio audio hardware...

Better Than Original? 14 Rust-based Alternative CLI Tools to Classic Linux Commands  It's FOSS

Linux PC Gaming Is On The Rise While Windows Trips Over Itself  The Outerhaven

I turned my Linux terminal into a shareable web session in less than 30 seconds  MakeUseOf

Released minutes ago was the Servo 0.0.2 web browser engine update. Along with this new Rust-based web engine release is also the "servoshell" in tow for the example implementation built around this open-source codebase...

Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser  Phoronix

3 Bash scripting techniques every Linux user should know  How-To Geek

Nouveau’s Big Page Boost: Revolutionizing Open-Source NVIDIA Drivers in Linux 6.19  WebProNews