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COSMIC Alpha 5 Desktop Brings COSMIC Media Player As Default, VRR Updates  Phoronix

Going back to January 2023 were patches for enabling Secure TSC support for use by SEV-SNP guests with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" and newer processors... Two years later and after sixteen rounds of revising the Linux kernel patches, it looks like the AMD Secure TSC support is finally ready for landing in the mainline Linux kernel...

AMD Secure TSC Support Might Finally Be Ready For Landing In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

End of Firefox? Google joined by Linux, Microsoft and more to make Chrome, Edge better  Neowin

Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11  GamingOnLinux

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 release was made earlier today as the newest update to this open-source Linux and Windows compute stack for Intel graphics hardware for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero implementations...

Flatpak 1.16 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officially Released  9to5Linux

Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects...

Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund  Phoronix

Linux Foundation bands together Chromium browser makers in a “neutral space”  Ars Technica

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers  PR Newswire

1. The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to support open-source Chromium-based browsers  ZDNet
2. Linux Foundation & Google Form New Group to Manage Chromium  OMG! Ubuntu!
3. Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club  The Register

Linux Foundation launches Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers initiative with backing from Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Opera  BetaNews

Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop...

Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution known as Azure Linux is out with its 3.0.20250102 update today. One of the interesting changes in this release is adding new AMD driver package repositories for allowing Azure Linux users to fetch the latest official AMDGPU driver packages or alternatively the newest "preview" driver packages...

Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.3 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

KDE Frameworks 6.10 Adds Support for Converting Between “Rack Units” in KRunner  9to5Linux

Razer announced the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma for your Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go and more  GamingOnLinux

Web Apps Make Switching to Linux Much Easier  How-To Geek