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Linux: How To Install Apps From the Source  The New Stack

NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming performance. The NTSYNC code has long been a work-in-progress but this week the revised code made it into the relevant "-next" branch ahead of Linux 6.14...

Just over one year since the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 window manager, this weekend Carsten Haitzler released the Enlightenment 0.27 window manager and Wayland compositor. Enlightenment continues going now 28 years in development by Rasterman!..

The cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel will see better reporting capabilities on modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...

Linux cpupower Utility To See Improved AMD Support With Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts...

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size,  openPR

Sigil 2.4 Open-Source EPUB Ebook Editor Released with New Features and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

With SteamOS Expanding Beyond Steam Deck, Is It Game Over For Bazzite?  Forbes

Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities  Phoronix

Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AMD CPU instruction set extensions. For Fedora 42 is now a proposal to extend that further to allow binary executables to also leverage glibc HWCAPs for better performance...

Linux Mint 22.1 BETA phase ends with 115 reports leading to crucial bug fixes  BetaNews

Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages...

Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Voyager Linux Offers a User-Friendly, Customized GNOME  The New Stack

Debian 12.9 “Bookworm” Arrives with 72 Bug Fixes and 38 Security Updates  9to5Linux

Ghostty is a beautiful new terminal emulator for macOS and Linux that you should try  XDA Developers

On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs  Phoronix