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Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the prospects of ending 32-bit KVM host support across all CPU architectures rather than being just an x86-only change...

Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM-Next of new kernel graphics driver features they are readying for this next version of the Linux kernel...

AMD has added support for another RDNA 3.5 refresh variant to the Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems...

OBS Studio 31.0 Release Brings Exciting Improvements for Streamers and Creators  It's FOSS News

Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code  Phoronix

KDE Gear 24.12 Officially Released, Finally Ports Dolphin to Mobile Devices  9to5Linux

The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...

Mastering Linux Regex: A Comprehensive Guide | by Siddharth Singh | Dec, 2024  Medium

6 Open-Source Tools That are Available Only on Windows, not on Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Foundation launches LF India to boost open source innovation  DATAQUEST

Linus Torvalds took to reverting some code tonight within the mainline Linux kernel that inadvertently had broken support having filenames with ❤️ and other special Unicode characters in filenames when on file-systems with case-folding (optional case insensitive file/folder name) support...

Linux Fixes Regression That Broke File Names With ❤️ & Other Special Characters  Phoronix

While we are awaiting the release of OpenZFS 2.3 that has been seeing release candidates since early October, OpenZFS 2.2.7 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Proton 9.0-4 is out now bringing big compatibility improvements for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 9.0-4 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running an incredible number of modern Windows games on Linux...

Proton 9.0-4 Released To Improve More Windows Games On Linux  Phoronix

Linux Foundation launches LF India to enhance open source collaboration  SDxCentral