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Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months. With the upcoming Mesa 23.2, RADV RT support is enabled by default for all supported GPUs. RADV also has emulated ray-tracing support for older generations of AMD GPUs and as of today it's finally hit a 100% pass rate...

5 Easy Ways to Check for Open Ports on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy-respecting' usage telemetry  The Register

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 To RTX 4060 GPU Compute & Renderer ...  Phoronix

Earlier this month I provided some initial GeForce RTX 4060 vs. Radeon RX 7600 Linux gaming benchmarks for this new sub-$300 graphics card. For those considering this latest Ada Lovelace graphics card for 3D rendering or compute purposes, here are some benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 on that front by looking at the generational performance of the x060 series graphics cards from the RTX 4060 back to the GTX 1060.

Fanatical's Platinum Collection for July has Tails of Iron, Floppy ...  GamingOnLinux

StackRot: Linux Bug so bad Linus Dives Into Code to Fix It  Security Boulevard

Achieving Zero Trust Network, Application, and Cloud Security with Linux  Security Boulevard

Linux Mint 21.2 final ISOs being tested  Neowin

The AMD Compressonator open-source tool suite that is under the GPUOpen umbrella has now added AVX-512 support alongside other enhancements in its v4.4 update...

Oracle Calls Out Red Hat and IBM Over RHEL Source Code  WebProNews

Can You Run iTunes on a Chromebook? Yes, Here's How!  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following the stunning decision last month by IBM that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, AlmaLinux quickly came out working on a path forward and Rocky Linux also shared some ideas how they may continue providing a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution. We've been waiting for Oracle to comment on their plans for the RHEL-compatible Oracle Linux distribution and today they finally issued a statement...

Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible ...  Phoronix

Kick Microsoft Windows 11 to the curb and switch to Linux Lite 6.6 ...  BetaNews

5 Simple and Easy Uses for Netcat in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Among the many interesting changes that landed the past two weeks for the Linux 6.5 merge window, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates as a whole standout for bringing numerous desktop motherboards and other devices to now enjoy working sensor monitoring support under Linux...

Linux 6.5 Bringing Sensor Monitoring To Many More Desktop Motherboards  Phoronix

Besides Bcachefs missing out on Linux 6.5, another patch series that didn't get buttoned up in time for the v6.5 merge window was AMD's work on radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation between WiFi 6/6e/7 hardware and AMD's newest SoCs with RDNA3 graphics...

AMD Revises WiFi RFI Mitigation Feature For Linux  Phoronix