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Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected  Phoronix

After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators...

5 reasons you should swap from Windows to Linux  XDA Developers

What's a Linux Terminal Shortcut Everyone Should Know?  How-To Geek

ExpressVPN Finally Gives Linux Users Split Tunneling and a GUI  How-To Geek

The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor...

Why Your Current Directory Isn’t in $PATH (and Whether You Should Fix It)  How-To Geek

Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks and more details on the open-source Linux driver support for these first AMD RDNA4 graphics cards.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance Review  Phoronix

In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute benchmarks of the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, mostly on cross-vendor OpenCL benchmarks, and a few words on the GPU compute stack support for the Radeon RX 9070.

MontaVista Linux CGX 5.0 Adds Secure-by-Default Profile, Providing Unprecedented Security for Embedded Markets  EIN News

In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware...

The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration...

Linux 6.15 Preparing Support For The XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, A Big 4K Drawing Tablet  Phoronix

Linux already supports a number of XP-Pen drawing tablets while the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to include support for another one: the XP-Pen Artist Pro 19. This XP-Pen Artist Pro 19 is a big, 4K resolution display drawing tablet that retails for nearly $800 USD and features dual stylus, 16K pressure levels, and a nice display for this 19-inch drawing surface...

Sven Peter continues work on upstreaming more of the Apple SoC support to the mainline Linux kernel. On the DeviceTree side following the DT support for Apple T2 SoCs sent out last month, another set of updates were submitted this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

macOS Sees a Dip in Gaming Market Share on Steam  It's FOSS News

New Auto-Color Linux Malware Targets Universities, Government Organizations  Cyber Security News

Two Point Museum launches with Linux support and glowing reviews  GamingOnLinux