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elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS  9to5Linux

AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver  HardForum

In addition to NVIDIA's GTC conference going on right now, they also released today an updated R570 Linux driver build...

NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions...

Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development  Phoronix

Ubuntu developers decided a few months back to switch from IRC to Matrix for real-time communication needs. The newest fundamental shift being discussed by Ubuntu developers is shifting from mailing list discussions to Ubuntu Discourse for mailing list like written communications...

BLAKE3 as the cryptographic hashing function that is much faster than the likes of SHA-1/SHA-1 while being more secure than SHA-1 and MD5 is out with a new feature update. BLAKE3 v1.7 is now available for the official C and Rust code as the reference implementations to this cryptographic hash function...

Ryan Walker's Flipper Blackhat Is a Powerful Quad-Core Linux-Based Wi-Fi Add-On for the Flipper Zero  Hackster.io

The Fedora 42 Beta Is Here, Complete with a COSMIC Spin  How-To Geek

The full PCI Express 7.0 specification remains on track for publishing later this year while out today is version 0.9 of the specification as the planned final draft...

Fedora Linux 42 Beta is here with KDE edition, COSMIC spin, Asahi Remix, and major updates  BetaNews

AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver  Tom's Hardware

IBM contributes key open-source projects to Linux Foundation to advance AI community participation  IBM

Google Explains Why It Added a Linux VM to Pixel Phones  How-To Geek

Blender 4.4 is out today as the newest version of this incredible, open-source 3D modeling software...

Huawei may lose Windows license and switch to Linux and HarmonyOS — media  Mezha.Media

Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24. JDK 24 is now out under general availability status with many new features and changes...

The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as well as boasting a number of new innovations that were made by Red Hat engineers...

Fedora Linux 42 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48  9to5Linux