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libinput 1.24 Brings Changes For Apple Touchpads, Drawing Tablets  Phoronix

The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published. There is the usual assortment of minor changes/fixes plus four new extensions, which all happen to be new vendor extensions from Qualcomm...

Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still missing  The Register

Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu • The Register  The Register

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Today, we will delve into the contents of the /proc directory to develop a better understanding of its functionalities. It’s important to note that the

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Following AMD recently posting Linux graphics driver patches for enabling a GFX 11.5 graphics engine and new DCN 3.5 display block that are presumably for an RDNA3 refresh such as for the Ryzen 8000 series APUs, today AMD posted additional open-source driver patch series for enabling additional new IP...

AMD Posts Linux Driver Patches For New VPE & UMSCH ...  Phoronix

A Brief Story of Time and Timeout  Linux Journal

Parallels Desktop 19 gets Sonoma-ready, expands OpenGL and Linux support  Ars Technica

The 9 Best Audio Editors for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5  Phoronix

The Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable this weekend barring any last minute issues from being raised. One of the notable changes with this new kernel version is Linux now defaulting to the AMD P-State "EPP" active driver configuration for modern Ryzen systems rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver default. In some cases this can mean better performance but particularly should yield a nice improvement to the power efficiency of Ryzen Zen 2 and newer platforms, especially laptops and other portable Linux systems like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. I am working on some fresh AMD Ryzen Linux laptop comparison benchmarks but for this article is a look at Linux 6.5 on the desktop side with the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X.

New Repo Brings Mainline Linux Kernel to Ubuntu LTS Releases  OMG! Ubuntu!

New Repo Brings Mainline Linux Kernel to Ubuntu LTS Releases  OMG! Ubuntu!

New Repo Brings Mainline Linux Kernel to Ubuntu LTS Releases  OMG! Ubuntu!

SQLite 3.43 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source embedded SQL database library that is widely used by countless applications and other software for a variety of data storage purposes...

OpenMandriva developers today formally announced the release of their rolling-release OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Linux OS installation images, which are also being treated as a release candidate for the OMLx 5.0 non-rolling distribution variant. Making OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 more exciting is that they are now offering separate install media as well that features the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment in its current experimental state but is being offered by OpenMandriva as a "technical preview" around the future direction of the desktop...

OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option ...  Phoronix

Whisker Squadron: Survivor takes Star Fox and adds a lil Vampire ...  GamingOnLinux

Fedora with their more liberal update policies will soon be rolling out the Thunderbird 115 mail client to stable Fedora Linux users...