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6 reasons why Google should switch Chromebooks from Android to Linux  ZDNet

The open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver had a rather great year with a number of performance optimizations landing, on-time support for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage Xe2 graphics, early AMD RDNA4 support, multiple drivers having same-day Vulkan 1.4 support, the continued progress of the open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver, and much more thanks to the contributions of Intel, AMD, Valve, and other organizations -- even Microsoft's continued merge requests!..

The Best of Linux 2024: The 10 Most-Read Articles  How-To Geek

As a very interesting end-of-year change for Mesa 25.0, AMD is now using the ACO compiler by default for pre-GFX10 (before RDNA / Navi) GPUs with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Last week Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution debuted in alpha form while kicking off the new week is updated install media to provide a few fixes for this original from-scratch Linux distribution...

Updated Serpent OS Alpha Brings Few Fixes To This Original Linux Distribution  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024. As a reminder this is a easy to use/integrate Vulkan memory allocation library for both Windows and Linux systems with hopes of making memory allocation and resource creation more easier like with Direct3D 11 and OpenGL...

Meta's Yann Collet of Zstd fame is rounding out 2024 by releasing xxHash 0.8.3 as the newest update to this extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. The xxHash fast hash algorithm pushes for RAM speed limits and with the v0.8.3 update brings more enhancements...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 29th, 2024  9to5Linux

Chimera Linux Hits Beta, It’s More than Exciting  info-mods.com

The post Ghostty – The Fast GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The terminal emulator landscape is undergoing a transformation, with developers reimagining the console to take advantage of modern hardware, GPU

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The post Upscayl: AI-Powered Image Upscaling Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re a Linux user who loves working with images, whether for personal projects, professional work, or just for fun,

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Ghostty: New Open Source Terminal That’s Spookily Good  OMG! Ubuntu!

The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is... Linus Torvalds' birthday on 28 December. Capping off the Linux creator's 55th birthday week is the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel release...

Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week  Phoronix

Back in April was the release of the Amarok 3.0 music player for KDE after a six year hiatus and their first version ported to using the Qt5 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 5. Now in ending out 2024, the Amarok team has released an updated version of this open-source music player that provides initial support for the Qt6 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 6...

Why Arch Isn't My Daily Driver, but I Use It Anyway  How-To Geek

Last weekend a Meta engineer posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. The Linux kernel can in turn invalidate TLB entries on remote CPUs without needing to send IPIs and without having to wait for remote CPUs to handle those interrupts. Synthetic benchmarks shown in that patch series were very promising and thus I carried out some benchmarking over the holidays of this AMD INVLPGB support for the Linux kernel.

Benchmarking The AMD INVLPGB Linux Kernel Patches For Better Performance  Phoronix

8 Ubuntu Tips and Tricks for First-Time Users  How-To Geek