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Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock would have been amazed at its legacy  ZDNet

Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock would have been amazed at its legacy  ZDNet

In recent days a number of feature patches were queued in HID-next to provide new driver features and hardware support within the Human Interface Device subsystem...

Several HID Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Navigating your way around the Linux file system  Network World

Windows 11 Has Made the 'Clean Windows Install' an Oxymoron  Slashdot

The amdfwtool utility living within the Coreboot repository for dealing with AMD platform firmware files has now added support for EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors...

On Friday AMD sent out another pull request of AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. With the Linux 6.5 release due out likely in one week and the cut-off having passed for new "feature" code for DRM-Next, this latest AMDGPU pull request was centered around bug-fixes but also with a few minor additions...

Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For ...  Phoronix

Bodhi Linux 7.0 challenges Microsoft Windows 11  BetaNews

Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Linux ...  Phoronix

For those that have been eyeing an AMD Ryzen 7 7040 "Phoenix" series laptop for Linux use, over the coming weeks ahead there will be benchmarks and a review on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U laptop. With this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 4 mobile processor clocking up to 5.1GHz, 64GB of LPDDR5x-6400 memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, and 2.8K OLED display it should be a real treat if the Linux support is all in good shape...

Melissa Wen with consulting firm Igalia continues working with AMD and Valve engineers on supporting AMD driver-specific color management properties for Linux to benefit the Steam Deck but ultimately to benefit all AMD Linux users as well...

AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam ...  Phoronix

Bodhi Linux 7.0 Released with Linux Kernel 6.4, Based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  9to5Linux

LibreOffice 7.6 is now available as the latest major release to this leading open-source office suite that is widely used on the Linux desktop and elsewhere...

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming  GamingOnLinux

FreeBSD Experimenting With A Port Of NVIDIA's Linux Open DRM ...  Phoronix

The new nvidia-drm-kmod is a FreeBSD port of Linux's nvidia-drm.ko open-source kernel module...

Following last Friday's release of Wine 8.14 following a summer holiday, Wine-Staging 8.14 is out today with its re-base for this testing/experimental flavor of Wine...