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One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support...

RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support  Phoronix

Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4  Phoronix

While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding...

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham shared that key KDE developers are currently in Germany for an in-person Plasma 6.0 development sprint...

CIQ Mountain launch targeted at IT execs in need of reducing complexity  Channel Daily News

Top 20 User-Friendly Linux Distros: Guide for Ideal OS  Mirage News

Today's Steam client beta will be a delight for some Linux gamers with the Steam client finally recognizing the GNOME and KDE desktop global scaling factor for text sizing...

Steam Beta Now Honors KDE & GNOME Global Scaling Factor  Phoronix

The Pros and Cons of Running Vodia on Windows or Linux  Telecom Reseller

The 10 Best Free Photo Management, Organizer, and Gallery Apps ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Operating System Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2029 ...  Digital Journal

Introducing Bavarder: A User-Friendly Linux Desktop App for Quick ...  Linux Journal

Linux Fu: Supercharge Bash History  Hackaday

Cartridges is another Linux game launcher and it's super-clean  GamingOnLinux

How to Search and Find Files for Text Strings in Linux  Linux Journal

For those that haven't yet watched the AMD openSIL presentation from the OCP Regional Summit in Prague from April, the most interesting takeaway was deserving of its own article... AMD openSIL is planned to eventually replace the well known AGESA and that it will be supported across AMD's entire processor stack -- just not limited to EPYC server processors as some were initially concerned but will support all AMD processors...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Increases Instruction Heap - Fix For ...  Phoronix

Intel's ANV open-source Vulkan driver has increased its instruction heap size to 2Gb in order to address a hang experienced with the game Overwatch while this is also likely to help other software/games moving forward...