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KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...

EndeavourOS 2025.02.08 comes with Firefox 135, default dark theme, multiple tweaks and fixes  Notebookcheck.net

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If you are using Debian 12 and have an Nvidia graphics card, installing the correct drivers is essential for getting

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Veecle’s Core now compatible with EB corbos Linux, advancing SDV development  MarkLines

Wine vs. Bottles vs. Proton: Which Is Best for Windows Apps on Linux?  MSN

Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux ? Yikes!  Hackaday

Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...

Fastfetch 2.36.0 released bringing multiple bug fixes, updated distro names and more  Neowin

Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win...

Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance  Phoronix

Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...

Serious about online privacy? This 'live' Linux OS is for you  ZDNet

Seven-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Opens Door to Remote Code Execution  GBHackers

For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...

Apple Touch Bar Backlight & Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...

Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS Mercury Lands with Linux Kernel 6.13 and Xfce 4.20  9to5Linux

Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can even outperform the current Python JIT compiler but for maximum performance benefits Python should be built with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO)...