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Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play  Phoronix

Forget Proxmox, here's how I set up a home lab server with Ubuntu  XDA

WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns  Fast Company

Last month Intel software engineers began posting Linux enablement patches for Wildcat Lake. Some of those first patches were merged for Linux 6.16 while more work is forthcoming. Posted yesterday for the first time on the Linux kernel mailing list was enabling the NPU accelerator support for Wildcat Lake...

Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability  Morningstar

Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability  PR Newswire

Cheap(er) Liberux NEXX Linux phone option coming soon (crowdfunding)  Liliputing

Ubuntu Devs Debate Splitting Linux Firmware to Reduce Size  OMG! Ubuntu

Since recently picking up a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop for Linux testing now that the Linux support is starting to evolve into better shape (albeit still with many rough corners limiting the daily usability of such devices with Linux), one of the areas I was curious about was looking at the performance of Linux binaries with GCC vs. LLVM Clang. Here are some benchmarks for those wondering how the GCC and Clang compilers are competing on the Snapdragon X Elite with the Oryon CPU cores.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compiler Performance  Phoronix

Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals...

How to Do Math in the Command Line Using Double Parentheses  Network World

Do You Dual-Boot With Linux?  How-To Geek

The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo  Phoronix

While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8060S graphics, if going for the recently-released Linux 6.15 kernel there are some performance gains to enjoy as well as if opting for the latest Mesa 25.2 development code for the latest RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV Vulkan driver support...

These 5 Lightweight Linux Distros Go Easy on Your Old Windows PC  How-To Geek

LibreOffice 25.2.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 52 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Following all of the Linux kernel graphics driver features merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel, sent out this morning were the initial batch of fixes to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code. Besides fixes to these graphics / display / accelerator drivers, there is one new feature: the AMDKFD kernel compute driver can now be enabled on RISC-V systems...

AMD's Kernel Compute Driver "AMDKFD" Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V  Phoronix