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Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX  Phoronix

Why I Actually Like Reading Linux Documentation Over Other Systems  How-To Geek

NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...

On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...

Can a Linux laptop replace my MacBook? This one is off to a good start  ZDNet

I put Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's filled a niche role for me  ZDNet

Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

Lenovo readies WMI driver for gaming handhelds with Linux 6.17  Notebookcheck

The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...

Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction  Phoronix

TIL the PlayStation 2 Can Run Linux—Here's How It Works  How-To Geek

Sudo Vulnerability Discovered, May Exposes Linux Systems  Security Magazine

Unable to set your monitor as the primary display in Linux? Here's how to fix that  gHacks Technology News

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2  Phoronix

With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa 25.2 are the Vulkan ray-tracing improvements. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the upcoming Mesa 25.2 performance for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card on Linux.

Linux Foundation CKA, CKAD 30% Discount 2025  Programming Insider

Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

How to install Linux on an external SSD  gHacks Technology News