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It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enhancing its support for running on the X.Org/X11 Server. Similarly, Valve is still committing resources to enhancing the support...

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit  Phoronix

KDE's window manager learned from Microsoft... before Windows did  xda-developers.com

Due to a "significant portion" of Red Hat's internal QA team responsible for Fedora QA leaving the company or switching to other teams at Red Hat, there are some Fedora ARM release changes coming to deal with the reduced abilities of their quality assurance team...

The Linux Foundation in the Age of AI  The New Stack

AMD "sbtsi_temp" Driver Being Updated For Linux 6.18 To Handle Freezing CPU Temperatures  Phoronix

Two years ago the AMD Linux CPU temperature driver was updated to handle negative temperature reporting. That's for some users with exotic cooling systems and then also use within some industrial applications where the systems may be subject to sub-zero temperatures. The AMD sbtsi_temp driver is also now being similarly updated for handling freezing CPU temperatures...

Linux Foundation Brings Solo.io’s Gateway Into The Agentic AI Fold  The Next Platform

Linux Foundation Brings Solo.io’s Gateway Into The Agentic AI Fold  The Next Platform

NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40  Phoronix

AMD Advances Open-Source Graphics with Linux 6.18 AMDGPU Updates  WebProNews

NVIDIA 580.82.07 driver released for Linux, the new Recommended Driver  GamingOnLinux

Arch Linux Archinstall 3.0.10: LVM Support Reaches Full Maturity  WebProNews

SentinelOne Uncovers Mystrodx: Chinese Backdoor Malware Targets Windows, Linux  WebProNews

Kazeta: New Linux OS Transforms PCs into Retro Game Consoles  TechPowerUp

With LLVM 21.1 having been released last week as the newest half-year feature update to this open-source compiler stack, I have begun benchmarking Clang 21 on a variety of systems for getting a feel for the performance over Clang 20. Eventually it will be extended as well to looking at the Clang 21 performance against GCC and vendor compilers. For some initial Clang 21 benchmarking, here is a look at how the Clang 21 C/C++ compiler is performing on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Zen 5 processors compared to the prior release.

I dual booted Fedora KDE and I forgot Windows was installed  xda-developers.com

ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: Python: The Documentary, Linux is 34, New CircuitPython Beta and More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @Raspberry_Pi  Adafruit

Arch Linux Installer’s LVM (Logical Volume Manager) Support Is Out of Beta  9to5Linux