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openSUSE Unveils YQPkg, a Standalone GUI Package Management Tool  LXer

Linux 6.13-rc4 To Fix A Nasty USB Problem Plaguing The Kernel For A Few Weeks  Phoronix

Merged to Linux Git minutes ago and ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc4 tagging on Sunday were this week's set of USB fixes that are particularly noteworthy. Most significant is fixing a USB regression that had been present in the stack since the Linux 6.13 merge window last month...

Grml 2024.12 ''Adventgrenze'' drops x86 support and welcomes 64-bit ARM CPUs  Notebookcheck.net

If you are looking for some interesting technical content to watch over the holidays or end-of-year downtime, AMD shared today that they have launched their own YouTube channel for developer-related content...

The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...

OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool  Phoronix

Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols...

Following the recent Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I wanted to expand the testing to look at how well other Linux distributions as well were performing on this new 24-core Arrow Lake desktop processor. To much surprise Intel's own Clear Linux distribution didn't take the top spot this round but as a surprising upset the Arch Linux based CachyOS distribution outperformed Clear Linux, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Fedora Workstation on this flagship Arrow Lake processor.

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Takes The Lead On Intel Arrow Lake  Phoronix

Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up  The Register

Intel Arc B580 tested in five games on Linux; you're better off sticking with an AMD GPU for now  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Core Ultra 9 285K is faster in Linux than in Windows – flagship Arrow Lake chip is 6 to 8% faster on average in Linux  Tom's Hardware

Prime Gaming - December 20th edition round-up for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

DXVK 2.5.2 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source software implementing the Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 APIs atop Vulkan for powering Windows games on Valve's Steam Play (Proton) as well as being used by other software and some games directly...

Want to save your old computer? Try these 6 Linux distros  ZDNet

A Phoronix Premium subscriber a while back requested some fresh benchmarks of how the Liquorix downstream of the Linux kernel is comparing against the latest upstream kernel... Here are some benchmarks looking at the Liquorix flavor of the Linux kernel compared to upstream Linux 6.12...

Liquorix vs. Linux 6.12 Upstream Kernel Performance Across Many Workloads  Phoronix

The latest round of drm-misc-next material was sent out yesterday to DRM-Next in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window...

Ryzen AI NPU6 Support Added To AMDXDNA Driver For Linux 6.14 Debut  Phoronix