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Arch Linux pulls the plug on Pascal: GTX 10 cards are dropped from the default path with NVIDIA 590  igor´sLAB

Valve's new Linux VRAM fix almost triples framerates in some games on the 4GB Radeon RX 6500 XT  XDA

AMD on the software side continues investing heavily in GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their cross-platform solution built around the Lemonade SDK for running local AI agents on your AMD-powered hardware from CPUs to GPUs and NPUs. With today's GAIA update, custom-generated AI agents are now portable with easy import and export support...

Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...

Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts  9to5Linux

Valve's new low-VRAM Linux fix nearly triples FPS in select games on AMD's RX 6500 XT  TweakTown

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...

Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver  theregister.com

Valve low-VRAM Linux fix tested on RX 6500 XT, gains reach 6.4% in some games  VideoCardz.com

Now you can run Steam games in Linux on some handhelds that ship with Android  Liliputing

While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...

Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11  Phoronix

Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...

Ubuntu 26.04 will block your upgrade on Thursday if your containers still use cgroup v1  XDA

It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...

Valve's new low VRAM optimization shines in select games in early 4GB GPU test  Notebookcheck

Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions...

Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes  Phoronix

Linux 7.1 update includes new in-kernel NTFS driver — delivers storage support upgrade for Linux users  Tom's Hardware