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OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL driver...

How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft  GamingOnLinux

QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database...

For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...

Unrailed! gets fixed for Steam Deck and an update for controllers on Linux / macOS  GamingOnLinux

Critical Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel: A New Privilege Escalation  Red Hot Cyber

Red Hat is giving developers free access to RHEL – here’s what you need to know  IT Pro

Bunny Bunker Is Building Its Base On PC, MacOS, And Linux This Month  COGconnected

Linux Operating System Market: Growth, Trends and Competitive Insights  openPR.com

Why I'm deleting Firefox for good - and which browser's never let me down  ZDNET

Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the upcoming multi-device support...

Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 Hardware Stack Update Brings Mesa 25.0, Linux 6.14  OMG! Ubuntu

For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...

I Use Fedora Linux Daily, but These 3 Things Drive Me Nuts  Yahoo

I Use Fedora Linux Daily, but These 3 Things Drive Me Nuts  How-To Geek

4 things Linux does better than Windows for the average user  XDA

ExTiX's new release is an even better Windows 11-like Linux desktop  ZDNet

The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...

This Linux distro combines the best parts of Windows and MacOS - and it's gorgeous  ZDNet