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NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations  GamingOnLinux

The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release...

NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D  Phoronix

7 Linux Distros I Still Miss in 2024  It's FOSS

Clementine Music Player Is Kind of Back After 8 Years!  It's FOSS News

Intel's compiler engineers today posted a number of feature patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for enabling new ISA features to be found with next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors. Excitingly a number of new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) features are coming with next-gen Intel Xeon...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older  Phoronix

AI Industry Right Now Is 10% Reality And 90% Marketing: Linux Creator Linux Torvalds  OfficeChai

Red Hat's AI Upgrade + IBM's New Open Source LLM: What Should You Know?  It's FOSS News

Outside of the likes of the Arch Linux based CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux there aren't too many distributions that widely rely on aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of bettering the system performance. A suggestion was raised recently though for Fedora to use profile-guided optimizations (PGO) and post-link optimizations with the likes of LLVM BOLT for more packages, but at this stage it's not clear if such a shift in Fedora package optimizations will actually materialize...

Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages  Phoronix

For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...

Get over 60 games free with Prime Gaming right now - many work on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

The post Etherpad: A Real-Time Online Collaborative Document Editor first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Etherpad Lite is a web-based, free document editing tool that enables groups of users to collaboratively work on a document

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4 file systems you should consider instead of NTFS for your next SSD  MSN

The post 10 Best Open Source Firewalls for Securing Linux Servers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

As a Linux administrator for over ten years, my primary responsibility has always been the security management of Linux servers.

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The post Clementine – A Modern Music Player for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Clementine is a modern, lightweight, and user-friendly music player designed for Linux users. It is inspired by Amarok, an older

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For those still managing to avoid systemd use on Linux systems and preferring SysVinit as their init system of choice, SysVinit 3.11 is out today with a new "important feature" addition...

SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last  Phoronix