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Merged this week to the GNU C Library "glibc" code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware...

Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser...

My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting a brilliant new screen-recording trick  XDA

Tuxedo suspends Linux laptop plans with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC  Notebookcheck

Joining Ada, C/C++, COBOL, D, Fortran, Go, Modula-2, Objective-C/Objective-C++ and Rust is now another programming language expected to be added for the GCC 16 compiler release due out in the new year...

This is the Linux distro I recommend to every Windows user  How-To Geek

An interesting anecdote from this week's batch of RISC-V fixes for the Linux 6.18 kernel exposed that the MIPS RISC-V/JEDEC vendor ID was wrong for code merged at the start of the kernel cycle. The testing hadn't caught it either as the QEMU emulation also ended up inadvertently using the wrong vendor ID too...

RISC-V Testing Lapse Resulted In Wrong MIPS RISC-V Vendor ID Landing In Linux 6.18  Phoronix

I used an immutable Linux distro for a week, and it was weirdly great  XDA

How installing Linux on a USB drive made every PC as comfortable as my own  How-To Geek

A computer builder calls Qualcomm "less suitable for Linux than expected" as it cancels its Snapdragon products  XDA

FreeBSD 15.0 is working toward its stable release in early December. As part of reaching that major release, FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 released today as what may be the final release candidate before FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE...

I built a Linux "recovery drive" that doubles as a persistent portable workstation  XDA

Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’  Tom's Hardware

Developer says you can “unlock” AirPods to use them on Android and Linux devices  Cybernews

Yesterday TUXEDO Computers cancelled their Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop plans. In their announcement discontinuing work on this X1E Linux laptop, they said they would still upstream the Device Tree support to the mainline Linux kernel. Indeed they posted a new revision of their DT patches on Friday for the Linux kernel, but there is diminishing outlook that they will be accepted upstream for this cancelled product...

Linux-Inspired File Managers Outpace Windows Explorer in Speed and Features  WebProNews

Here's how I fixed Windows not showing up in my dual boot menu  How-To Geek

Steam Runtime’s Debian 13 Leap: Linux Gaming’s Quiet Revolution  WebProNews

Linux 6.19 Unlocks Realtek’s RTL8125K: The Next Frontier in 2.5G Ethernet  WebProNews