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Linux Operating System Market Share, Growth Insight, Size, Competitive Analysis, Regional, And Global Forecast To 2027 – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Just one week after having published the provisional Vulkan Video extensions, The Khronos Group has another exciting announcement today in the form of ratifying KTX 2.0...

AMD Radeon graphics cards on Linux can finally enjoy Vulkan ray-tracing! AMD has published a new Radeon Software for Linux driver release that enables the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions for use with RDNA2 / Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards...

AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support  Phoronix

AMD Releases Radeon Software Linux Driver With Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support  Phoronix

Well known open-source AMD Linux graphics driver developer Marek Olšák published an initial proposal this week as "a redesign of how Linux graphics drivers work."..

AMD Proposing Redesign For How Linux GPU Drivers Work - Explicit Fences Everywhere  Phoronix

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  Techradar

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  TechRadar

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  TechRadar

Running Linux on Windows 10 just got a little less janky  TechRadar

Linux 5.12 – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V Architectures  CNX Software

Last week 4A Games released Metro Exodus for Linux and while there were a few issues at launch, at least one of them is now resolved...

Mesa RADV Driver Fixes Memory Leak Affecting Metro Exodus On Linux  Phoronix

Linux, Lyft establish mobile devs collective to build enterprise-grade apps  TechHQ

It's fairly common that many longtime Linux kernel developers use their personal email addresses for signing off on kernel patches or dealing with other patch work, especially when they are engaging with kernel development in their personal time too and occasionally jumping between employers over time while still sticking to interacting with the upstream kernel community, etc. There are also understandably some companies that mandate the use of their corporate email addresses for their official work/patches while now IBM seems to be taking things one step to the extreme...

IBM To Kernel Maintainer: "You Are An IBM Employee 100% Of The Time"  Phoronix

It's been over one year already since the debut of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 while fortunately DragonFlyBSD 6.0 will be here soon for this popular BSD operating system...

AI Makes Linux Do What You Mean, Not What You Say  Hackaday

How to Delete Partitions in Linux [Using fdisk and GParted]  It's FOSS