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Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to adding new hardware support and much more. Here is a preview of some of the changes expected to be submitted for the Linux 6.14 cycle...

Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute...

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 octa-core RISC-V AI CPU with SpacemiT X60 cores will see support...

Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs  Phoronix

5 lightweight Linux distributions that will bring your old PC back to life  ZDNet

deepin Linux 25 Preview challenges Windows 11 with stunning design and security from China  BetaNews

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...

Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot splash screen falling back to its simple text-based interface after timing out. As a workaround, Fedora 42 is looking to use the generic "SimpleDRM" driver during this initial boot splash screen experience to initially avoid the bulky DRM drivers...

Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...

Linux Mint 22.1 launches with new power modes, updated APT packaging, and more  Notebookcheck.net

10 Linux apps I install on every new machine (and why you should, too)  ZDNet

At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just over one week...

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 17 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

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Pumakit - A Sophisticated Linux Rootkit Attack Critical Infrastructure  CybersecurityNews

Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...

3 reasons Pop!_OS might be the best Linux distro for gamers  XDA Developers

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia frees your PC from the closed-source chains of proprietary software  BetaNews

NVIDIA release new GPU driver updates for Linux and Windows after announcing security issues  GamingOnLinux