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AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13  Phoronix

The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...

The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...

Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer  Phoronix

Linux Mint Is Getting a Night Light Feature in Cinnamon, Framework Laptop Support  9to5Linux

With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding...

Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...

Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3  Phoronix

While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few days ago the audio firmware was finally upstreamed to make setting up X1 Elite laptops easier. Another important feature as an example is CPUFreq driver support for CPU frequency scaling to ensure optimal performance and power efficiency...

Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches  Phoronix

Valve Linux Driver Team Fixes RADV Driver Performance With FSR 2 Through MESA 24.3 Release, Up To 228% Uplift  Wccftech

No Apex Legends 2 Followed by Linux Ban Before Season 23  NoobFeed

FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release...

AV Linux: Exploring a Distro for Audio/Visual Work  How-To Geek

Working in KDE Plasma on Linux? Try These Keyboard Shortcuts  How-To Geek

Cloudflare's Pingora Rust framework that was written as a replacement to Nginx and made publicly open-source earlier this year with a focus on building fast and reliable networked systems is out with its newest feature release...

Frustrated with Windows 11? Nitrux Linux is the OS you deserve  BetaNews

Sculpt OS for what has been working to become a general purpose operating system built off the original Genode is out with a new feature release...

Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support  Phoronix

I Took This Modern Retro Unix Distro for a Spin  How-To Geek