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While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME 48 Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn't a new official video player for this desktop release...

In addition to the Bcachefs features and new Btrfs code for Linux 6.14, the XFS file-system changes were merged on Thursday for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference  The Register

It's not only AI start-ups running into space and power capacity bottlenecks but the Fedora Project has been pushing the limits of its main data center and is preparing for a move to a new data center to allow for more physical space and power capacity. In turn one item mentioned is allowing space for possible RISC-V build systems for Fedora...

The GNOME 48 Alpha release was issued this morning for helping to test this updated desktop environment debuting as stable in March...

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH broken on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs but works with AMD GPUs like Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Don't Miss Out The Linux Foundation Certification Deal Before The Price Hike!  It's FOSS News

Proton Hotfix updated to get THE FINALS working again on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Building off last month's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 beta, Oracle today published the Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview for a first glimpse at this next RHEL10-derived operating system...

Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview Released With UEK-Next Based On Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Vivaldi 7.1 brings privacy-focused features to Windows, Mac, and Linux  BetaNews

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs  9to5Linux

The Linux x86 32-bit PAE kernel support for Physical Address Extensions allows addressing more than 4GB of memory for those still running 32-bit processors or otherwise opting to still run a 32-bit OS. While the Linux x86 32-bit specific code rarely sees new improvements in the past number of years, a set of patches were posted today in looking to enhance the x86 32-bit PAE mode...

x86 32-bit Operating Systems Aren't Dead Yet: New Linux Patches Improve 32-bit PAE  Phoronix

Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta while today a second beta was issued...

If you're ready to break up with Windows, this is the Linux distro I suggest for new users  ZDNet

All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for better power efficiency on Ryzen processors and since the prior kernel also now being used with the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC server processors too...

Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"  Phoronix

GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager  9to5Linux