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The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...

Android and Linux-based Smart TFT displays simplify embedded development  EE Journal

The Beginners’ Guide to Using the Linux Terminal  Make Tech Easier

Android vs Linux for gaming handhelds: Here are my thoughts after trying both  Android Authority

ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear within the GNU Compiler Collection. But years later and little use, GCC developers are consider deprecating ILP32 support ahead of its eventual removal...

Back in 2022 there were Linux kernel developers like Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman recommending that Intel Alder Lake laptops be avoided. This was due to the Intel web camera support in those new-at-the-time laptops yet to be properly upstreamed and relying on binary bits. Over time that Intel IPU6 MIPI camera support has seen portions of the code upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel and distributions like Fedora taking extra steps to make them work but still in 2025 those with newer Intel laptops boasting the latest web camera technology are often facing a challenging experience...

MX Linux 23.5 launches with Xfce 4.20 and updated kernel options  Notebookcheck.net

Intel and AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft tweak  The Register

Ubuntu Studio: Why you need this open-source Adobe alternative  Creative Bloq

It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570  Phoronix

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...

Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next?  The Register

For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...

JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains  Phoronix

Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...

How to Set Up an SFTP Server on Linux  TechRepublic

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OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...