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While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the Linux kernel has been around the aging M1 and M2 Macs. Apple M3 and newer has been a struggle but progress is being made. One of the Asahi Linux developers shared the ability now to boot to the KDE Plasma desktop with the experimental Asahi Linux code on an M3 MacBook but without any GPU acceleration yet...

Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop - But No GPU Acceleration Yet  Phoronix

I turned my phone into a Linux desktop with this free app  XDA

This Modular Linux Pocket Computer Looks Promising  Hackster.io

GOG Plans First-Party Linux Support  TechPowerUp

Need to manage virtual machines on Linux? I found an easier way  ZDNET

In addition to Mesa 26.1 today seeing Vulkan present timing support finally merged to help reduce game stuttering and separately another long-in-development Mesa merge request for DG2 / Meteor Lake to improve performance as much as 260% in some scenarios, there is another merge today to Mesa Git for enhancing Intel graphics on Linux. For Intel Linux gamers the newest Mesa code adds a new DriConf workaround that is capable of halving the initial game load time for at least one problematic game title...

New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW  Phoronix

GOG adds Linux focus to GOG GALAXY engineering role, "Linux is next major frontier"  VideoCardz.com

GStreamer 1.28 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia framework...

GNU C Library "glibc" developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure "CTI" project hosted by the Linux Foundation...

Penguin in your pocket: Nexphone dual boots into Linux, Windows 11  theregister.com

GA of Oracle AI Database 26ai for Linux x86-64 on-premises platforms  Oracle Blogs

Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma 6.6 stable remains on-track for a mid-February release...

Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in Google Cloud with the N4A instances now out of preview. The Google Cloud N4A instances are designed for scale-out web servers and microservices, containerized applications, back-end application services, databases, data analytics, and cost-effective development/staging/testing environments.

Valve's Proton compatibility layer brings 19 more games to Linux  How-To Geek

I tried COSMIC Desktop as a KDE Plasma fanboy, and one thing stopped me from switching  XDA

Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems...

3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop  How-To Geek

TigerVNC 1.16 Released with Support for Sharing Wayland Desktops  9to5Linux