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I found a Linux-friendly Lenovo mini PC - and it drives up to six external monitors  ZDNet

While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopardy but now with Google engineers set to takeover that code...

KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4...

Merged on Friday for the GCC 16 compiler is better handling of the "-march=" compiler option on RISC-V systems when seeing multiple -march= hits and wanting to specify the RISC-V CPU name for targeting...

Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel release expected on Sunday, a final round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver fixes were merged today to the kernel. Notable with these updates on the Intel side is squeezing in some additional PCI device IDs for upcoming Panther Lake integrated graphics...

More Intel Panther Lake Graphics PCI IDs Added To Linux 6.15  Phoronix

NixOS 25.05 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS and 6.14 Kernels, GNOME 48, and More  9to5Linux

5 useful Linux tools that would never make sense on Windows  XDA

Microsoft's open-source code contributions to the Mesa 3D graphics stack continues... Hitting Mesa 25.2-devel today was a patch adding 61,925 lines of code patch as they introduce a new Gallium3D front-end...

Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes...

The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance...

Your Steam Deck Just Got a Big Update  How-To Geek

RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud  SiliconANGLE

OpenAI’s o3 model helps identify significant Linux security threat  Tech Monitor

This week Intel released the Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 release for Windows and Linux. This updated open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero brings the latest work on Ultra Low Latency Scheduling (ULLS) for Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and other ongoing Xe2 improvements along with further preparations for next-gen Xe3 hardware. This new Intel Compute Runtime release is clocking in around 76x lower OpenCL kernel latency and other nice wins for those with current-generation Intel Lunar Lake hardware.

Benchmarks: OpenCL Kernel Latency ~76x Lower For Intel Lunar Lake With Updated Compute Runtime  Phoronix

For those not yet on the newest GCC 15 compiler that debuted as stable one month ago, GCC 14.3 is out today in delivering the latest fixes for the GCC 14 stable series...

Linux 6.15 Sees Last Minute Power Savings Fix For Intel Arrow Lake U/H  Phoronix