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At the AMD Computex keynote last night in addition to announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, Radeon RX 9060 XT, and Ryzen AI PRO R9700, they also brief talked about the ROCm compute stack and their plans for the second half of 2025...

AMD To Focus On Better ROCm Linux Experience In H2-2025, Day-One Client Support  Phoronix

Google flags malicious use of Linux .desktop files  SC Media

Red Hat Unveils Cloud-Optimized Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Standard

Last year NVIDIA began publicly outlining known Wayland limitations for their driver and future support plans. This week NVIDIA put out updated information concerning known gaps in Wayland support as well as their ongoing future driver plans for enhancing the feature compatibility under this X11 successor...

The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system...

Red Hat introduces cloud-optimized RHEL  techzine.eu

Manjaro Linux lead gives more info on the new ZOTAC GAMING ZONE handheld with AMD  GamingOnLinux

Released yesterday was the newest monthly feature update to the Intel Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Intel integrated and discrete graphics processors...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 Brings ULLS For Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Linux Foundation: Slash costs, boost growth with open-source AI  AI News

New Study Shows Open Source AI Is Catalyst for Economic Growth  Meta Store

How Did You Learn About the Linux Distro You're Using?  How-To Geek

Microsoft Brings Post-Quantum Cryptography to Windows and Linux in Early Access Rollout  The Quantum Insider

Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...

Sent out last week was one final batch of drm-misc-next updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Besides a couple fixes, most notable was new async flipping code for the Intel DRM driver with the IN_FORMATS_ASYNC DRM property...

Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process...

Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of different OpenGL and Vulkan driver fixes...

10 Things to Learn If You Want to Become a Linux Admin  TechRepublic

Red Hat adds AI tools to streamline Linux management & upgrades  IT Brief Asia