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AMD ROCm 6.4.3 Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is rolling out a "fair use" quota where they will be asking the major hardware vendors (OEMs) to sponsor the project or contribute developer resources for the biggest users that rely on LVFS/Fwupd for serving system and device firmware to customers...

LVFS Introducing Fair-Use Quota: Asking Major Vendors To Pay Or Contribute Code  Phoronix

11 Go packages hide malicious commands targeting Linux and Windows  SC Media

OpenLinkHub for managing iCUE LINK Hub and various Corsair devices on Linux expands device support  GamingOnLinux

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) gets expanded support for older AMD GPUs  GamingOnLinux

Linux Desktop Market Share Tops 6%, Poised for 10% by 2030  WebProNews

My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives  ZDNET

Intel Is Reportedly Preparing Arc B380; Adds New Battlemage PCI ID to Linux Kernel  Wccftech

The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...

Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it  PC Gamer

ChatGPT Is the Best Homelab Assistant I Could Ask For  How-To Geek

Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48  9to5Linux

The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...

PCIe Improvements With Linux 6.17: Intel Panther Lake, Qualcomm, Sophgo SG2044 & More  Phoronix

Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...

Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...

Frame gen tool for Linux gets up to 4x performance boost with new feature, "mainly" on AMD graphics cards  PC Guide

Windows is losing ground. Linux is growing on corporate desktops, citing increased security.  Red Hot Cyber

[Inside LBS Ⅲ] Dividing and Conquering Linux High-Capacity SSD Support with LBS  Samsung Semiconductor