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While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuous integration (CI) has added driver testing with an old Hawaii GPU...

RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 39 review  MSN

Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted...

Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities  Phoronix

I built the perfect anti-MacBook out of this Chromebook  Android Police

Our Linux App with GUI Is Here  ExpressVPN

Hands on: I tried Fedora Linux 39 - see what I thought about this lightweight distro  TechRadar

Download VMWare Workstation Pro (free) for Windows and Linux  Gizmodo

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Whisper AI is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model developed by OpenAI that can transcribe audio into text with

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Rakuten opts for Red Hat's Enterprise Linux for Real Time  Telecompaper EN

Red Hat Inks Linux Tie-Up with Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony at MWC  The Fast Mode

The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month...

MakuluLinux LinDoz 2025 Brings AI Frontier to Desktop Computing  LinuxInsider

Plex Is Ending Support for This Once-Popular NAS Brand  How-To Geek

Meet ArcoPlasma, the Linux distro for control freaks  ZDNet

This is the best Linux email client I've found - and I've tested them all  ZDNet

SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carried out some tests using the HiFive Unmatched to look at how the Ubuntu Linus RISC-V performance has evolved from Ubuntu 21.04 when I first tested that RISC-V quad-core developer board, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and now the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages.

6 upgrades SteamOS needs to dethrone Windows  XDA Developers

Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...