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This simple CachyOS feature lets me use Windows without dual-booting  How-To Geek

Denuvo protection blocks access to Pragmata on Linux and Steam Deck.  GameGPU

Is OpenClaw the Linux Moment for AI?  HackerNoon

Linux has a built-in crash recovery trick, and more people should use it  MakeUseOf

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware...

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux  Phoronix

The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions...

Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support  Phoronix

The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS has now rolled out the Linux 7.0 kernel to its users. But beyond re-basing against the latest upstream kernel version it is also carrying some extra patches...

CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel  Phoronix

Intel QAT Zstd, QAT Gen6 Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

In addition to the notable libcrypto optimizations and improvements merged during this first week of the Linux 7.1 merge window, the main cryptography subsystem pull was also merged. Notable here are the Intel QuickAssist (QAT) improvements...

Linux Kernel 7.1 Merges New NTFS Driver With Full Write Support  Linuxiac

Linux 7.1 switches Kaveri, Kabini, and Mullins to AMDGPU  igor´sLAB

Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app  omgubuntu.co.uk

The block subsystem and IO_uring changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 in continuing to enhance Linux storage capabilities...

Linux is getting optimized for better gaming on low VRAM GPUs  HWCooling.net

GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 released today as a big upgrade for this desktop-focused, BSD operating system derived from FreeBSD...

The AMD Machine Check Exception "mce_amd" driver as part of the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem is introducing support for new SMCA bank types on AMD platforms. Given the timing these new bank types are presumably for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 / EPYC Venice hardware...

For those making use of the WireGuard open-source, secure VPN tunnel software, WireGuard For Windows 1.0 is finally available...