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Microsoft tells Windows users how to install Linux  PCWorld

For those using the stock kernel and Mesa drivers when running Ubuntu Linux, the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 can mean some nice graphics performance improvements for Intel Arc Graphics users. Here is a look at some Arc Graphics A770 benchmarks on Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 plus the gains that are coming up when moving to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel.

The newest Blender alpha builds of the past week have enabled Vulkan API support as an experimental option on Windows and Linux...

Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option  Phoronix

Linux-Distribution: Ubuntu-23.10-Images mit antisemitischer Hetze ...  heise online

GNOME developer proposes removing the X11 session  The Register

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 arrives: A glimpse into Ubuntu Linux's future  ZDNet

1. Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 arrives: A glimpse into Ubuntu Linux's future  ZDNet
2. Resources is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!
3. Ubuntu 23.10 Now Available With ZFS Desktop Install Option, Linux 6.5 Kernel  Phoronix

Microsoft will help you learn how to install Linux now?!  Windows Central

OpenWrt 23.05 Released With Rust Package Support, MbedTLS ...  Phoronix

OpenWrt 23.05 has been released as the newest feature release for this embedded Linux distribution that is popular for use on networking devices...

Resources is a New, Modern System Monitor for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as well as sporting its own C-based API...

AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released  Phoronix

Microsoft gibt jetzt Tipps, wie man Linux richtig installiert  DER STANDARD

Following last week's PipeWire 1.0 release candidate, today a second release candidate was published as part of the project's plan for reaching v1.0 before the end of the year for this widely-used Linux audio/video streams server that is a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK...

PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching  Phoronix

How to install the Tor Browser on a Chromebook  Android Police

Linux enthusiasts, rejoice: Fedora Project, Slimbook offer powerful new laptop  WRAL TechWire

While some Linux distributions like Fedora and Arch are enabling the native Wayland back-end for Firefox by default, upstream Firefox continues to not enable this Wayland support as part of their default builds. But -- at long last -- that might finally change soon...