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VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support  Phoronix

Linux Mint vs. Zorin OS: How to pick between these Windows alternatives  ZDNET

Last month when the LLVM/Clang 22 compiler merged support for Intel Nova Lake with the "-march=novalake" target there was no mentions of AVX10 or Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) support. But last week Intel published a new programming reference manual where they confirmed AVX 10.2 and APX for Nova Lake. Now that it's official, Intel compiler engineers are updating the LLVM/Clang (and GCC) compiler support to reflect these ISA additions...

Updated LLVM/Clang Compiler Enables AVX 10.2 & APX For Intel Nova Lake  Phoronix

Unveiling Shadows: Linux Tools Revolutionizing Online Footprint Mapping  WebProNews

These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers  cinetotal.com.br

These are the only distros I recommend for Linux power users  How-To Geek

AMD Enterprise AI Suite Announced: End-To-End AI Solution For Kubernetes With Instinct  Phoronix

The AMD ROCm blog just announced a new open-source AMD AI software project: the AMD Enterprise AI Suite as well as AMD Inference Microservices (AIMs)...

Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option...

systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc  Phoronix

Intel engineers continue working on the Nova Lake next-gen processor enablement for the Linux kernel. In addition to the Intel Xe3P graphics and other early Nova Lake enablement work already queued in "-next" Git branches ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window, the initial power management code is also ready for this next kernel cycle...

openSUSE Releases Agama 18 Installer with Cleaner and More Intuitive Storage UI  9to5Linux

Valve's new Steam Machine will make 2026 a massive year for Linux  ZDNET

I tried out this unknown Linux distro for gaming, and it's better than Bazzite  XDA

For the Steam Machine to change PC gaming, Valve must solve Linux's anti-cheat problem  Engadget

HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.25.8 Adds Support for New Printers  9to5Linux

The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Following prominent Linux x86 platform enabler Hans de Goede leaving Red Hat (as recently noted, he recently joined Qualcomm), there is another prominent Linux kernel engineer that will be departing from Red Hat...

Red Hat Losing Another Longtime & Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer  Phoronix