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Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it's an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs...

AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added  Phoronix

I used Linux to clean up Windows — and it worked better than expected  MakeUseOf

ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API...

Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay  theregister.com

Guess who’s back? Kaspersky launches new Linux antivirus for $59.99  TechRadar

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions...

Proton 10 update fixes many games on Linux and Steam Deck  How-To Geek

Assetto Corsa Rally has arrived in Early Access - should work well on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

The Windows president wants it to turn into an 'agentic OS' for some reason  PC Gamer

Valve hopes the Steam Machine will make devs pay more attention to Linux anti-cheat support  PC Guide

AMD's GAIA open-source project as a reminder is their "Generrative AI Is Awesome" quick-setup solution for demonstrating generative AI use on AMD hardware platforms with Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and/or Ryzen AI NPUs. GAIA is predominantly Microsoft Windows focused but recently they did introduce limited support for Linux that is currently bound to Vulkan-accelerated GPU support. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.13 as another step forward for this AI demonstrator...

Linux Laptop Pioneer Defects to Qualcomm, Shaking x86’s Open-Source Foundations  WebProNews

Valve’s Proton 10.0-3 Ushers in New Era for Linux Gaming Compatibility  WebProNews

3 cool Linux apps you should try this weekend (November 14 - 16)  How-To Geek

While the "Nova" driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what's working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handling larger pages as well as compression support...

Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve  theregister.com

Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for Linux 6.19...

Introduced last year in the Linux 6.10 kernel was the mseal system call for memory sealing to protect the memory mapping against modifications to seal non-writable memory segments or better protecting sensitive data structures. The GNU C Library has finally introduced its mseal function making use of this modern Linux kernel functionality...

GNU C Library Adds Linux "mseal" Function For Memory Sealing  Phoronix