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Today the review embargo lifts on the much anticipated Framework Desktop computer powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max 300 Series "Strix Halo" SoCs. Aside from offering an enclosure to allow old Framework motherboards to be re-tasked as a makeshift desktop computer, the Framework Desktop is the company's first dedicated desktop computer offering and it's very impressive in building around the Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" platform. Here is a look at the Framework Desktop with initial testing under Linux and a wide assortment of benchmarks.

AlmaLinux 9 & 10 Now Support NVIDIA GPUs Natively — Here's How to Set Them Up  It's FOSS News

Canonical just announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS as the newest point release for this long-term support (LTS) operating system across desktop, server, and cloud...

Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released With Linux 6.14 HWE Kernel  Phoronix

It's just not Microsoft Windows and to a lesser extent Linux that can have challenges in dealing with heterogeneous CPU cores like Intel P/E hybrid cores but FreeBSD developers have begun working through those headaches too in trying to ensure a good experience of modern laptops running this BSD operating system...

Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16.0 almost ready for full release  Techzine Global

Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise  ZDNet

Rust 1.89 is out today as the newest update to this popular programming language implementation prided by its memory safety features and more...

Shielded Technologies Joins Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust as Premier Member  PR Newswire

Chimera Linux: Linux Meets FreeBSD, but Is It for You?  How-To Geek

Similar to Clang-Tidy for tidying up C/C++ code using LLVM/Clang components, Flang-Tidy is in development as a tool for Fortran static analysis built upon LLVM's modern Flang compiler code. Flang-Tidy may be upstreamed in the future to LLVM while for now it's developed by TU Munich and Max Planck Computing...

Linux 6.17 Will Correctly Map By Default F13 To F24 Keys On PS/2 Keyboards  Phoronix

It has taken until 2025 for the AT/PS2 keyboard driver to map F13 through F24 function keys by default. But that day has come and the support was merged today as part of the input driver changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Intel is phasing out 16x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) with modern upscaling tech like XeSS / FSR / DLSS being superior and more performant plus there being alternative anti-aliasing techniques. Upcoming Xe3 graphics are seeing 16x MSAA support retroactively disabled as the Intel graphics driver moves away from this highest-level MSAA sampling count...

The Linux 6.17 sound subsystem code last week introduced support for AMD ACP 7.2 as the next version of AMD's Audio Co-Processor IP. This appears to be for yet-to-be-released hardware and now over in the SoundWire subsystem is similar enablement work landing for AMD ACP 7.2...

GNOME 48 Reimagined: Smoother Settings, Glorious HDR, and Precision Scaling  Linux Journal

FOSS Weekly #25.32: AWS Fiasco, AUR Poisoned Again, Ubuntu Manual, Firefox New Tab Customization and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

[Inside LBS Ⅱ] Dividing and Conquering Linux High-Capacity SSD Support with LBS  Samsung Semiconductor

Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Coming Soon, ISOs Enter Testing  OMG! Ubuntu