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MSI Claw handheld looks like it may get better Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Zotac Zone 2 demoed with Manjaro Linux and an AMOLED panel — 12-core Zen 5 CPU and 32GB RAM under the hood  Tom's Hardware

PoCL 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that originally was started for supporting CPU-based OpenCL execution but with time and in leveraging LLVM back-ends has added support for OpenCL atop AMDKFD / NVIDIA PTX / Intel Level Zero and other possible back-ends...

Linux kernel SMB 0-Day Vulnerability Uncovered Using ChatGPT  CybersecurityNews

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Rocky Linux Embrace RISC-V  It's FOSS News

FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...

AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro  theregister.com

Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...

AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux  Phoronix

PipeWire 1.4.3 Brings netJACK2 Changes, Improves ALSA audio.channels Support  9to5Linux

Ninja action-RPG adventure Katana Dragon recently added Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems...

MSI Linux Driver Aims For Parity To Windows App For The Claw Gaming Handhelds  Phoronix

A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM...

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support...

CentOS Now Providing Initial RISC-V Support  Phoronix

The 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller is a top premium-feeling controller  GamingOnLinux

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Imagine you’re happily working on your Linux system, maybe compiling a package, running updates, or just browsing and suddenly, your

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Well, this is a pleasant surprise... Less than 24 hours after the AMD Computex 2025 keynote where better/more-timely ROCm support for client GPUs was brought up, AMD ROCm 6.4.1 is now officially released. With ROCm 6.4.1 there is formal support for RDNA4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9000 series consumer graphics cards...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 833: Up And Over  Hackaday