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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

Valve says Steam Machine success will help to push devs to properly support anti-cheat on Linux  FRVR

Following the mainline Linux kernel support for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer from StarFive, Linux kernel patches are on the way for their new VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost offering. With the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite this RISC-V board can be procured for as little as $19.9 USD as one of the cheapest yet fairly capable RISC-V SBCs...

Mainline Linux Patches For The VisionFive 2 Lite: RISC-V For As Little As $19.9 USD  Phoronix

Intel driver engineer Suraj Kandpal presented at the recent X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2025) on the challenges around supporting content protection on Linux such as for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP)...

The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers  Phoronix

Ubuntu's New 15-Year Commitment Targets Long-Lived Enterprise Systems  It's FOSS

Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel...

Kraken Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi in Enterprise Environments  GBHackers News

Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified...

Steam Machine Will Spark A Whole New Generation of Linux-Based PCs, Says Baldur's Gate 3 Dev  Tech4Gamers

Kraken Ransomware Expands Attacks to Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi Systems  Cyber Press