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How to Create a Winter Wonderland on Linux With GNOME Extensions  MUO - MakeUseOf

As of today with Mesa 23.0 Git the EXT_mesh_shader extension is finally enabled by default for AMD Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA2" graphics hardware when running on a new Linux kernel build...

How to create a developer-ready Linux distribution within your web browser with Instantbox  TechRepublic

The NTFS3 kernel driver, which was contributed to the mainline kernel by Paragon Software for read/write NTFS file-system support and other features while being faster than the NTFS-3g FUSE driver, is seeing a number of updates with the Linux 6.2 kernel...

NTFS Driver Adds New Mount Options With Linux 6.2  Phoronix

SUSE has released a new prototype build of their Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) that will serve as the basis for the next-generation SUSE Enterprise Linux...

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 21.1 Arrives with a Ton of Visual Changes and Improvements  It's FOSS News

The Linux Foundation's AgStack Project to Build World's First Global Dataset of Agricultural Field Boundaries  Yahoo Finance

The Linux Foundation's AgStack Project to Build World's First Global ...  PR Newswire

While NVIDIA is already out with multiple GeForce RTX 40 series products, coming only now with the Linux 6.2 kernel is initial open-source 3D acceleration support for the GeForce RTX 30 "Ampere" graphics processors. Here is my initial experience with this open-source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series support in Linux 6.2.

Google Maps just got a new competitor from Linux, Amazon, Meta ...  BGR

Linux-based tablets: Pine64 says its PineTab 2 tablet is a 'complete' redesign  ZDNet

Intel last year published documentation concerning a feature for future CPUs that they dubbed FRED, the Flexible Return and Event Delivery. FRED has the capability of helping system performance and response time while now initial patches for the Linux kernel have been published for supporting FRED...

Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Kernel Patches For FRED  Phoronix

In addition to Linux 6.2 upgrading its Zstd implementation for speedier compression/decompression for in-kernel uses of the Zstandard compression algorithm, this new kernel version is adding another Zstd use-case: compressed debug info sections...

Linux 6.2 Allows For Zstd-Compressed Debug Information  Phoronix

Over the past year we've seen a fair amount of work for enabling support for various Aquacomputer devices under Linux. The German parts vendor specializes in various PC cooling solutions and other cooling accessories that can be monitored and managed under Linux thanks to this open-source driver work...

Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Aquacomputer Aquaero  Phoronix

Linux and software containers in the vehicle ...  eeNews Europe