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Which Linux Distro Do You Recommend to Gamers?  How-To Geek

An AMD engineer presented earlier this month at the Vulkanised 2025 conference in Cambridge (UK) around the work they are pursuing for AI using the MLIR intermediate representation, IREE, and the role that Vulkan/SPIR-V can play for AI acceleration across AMD's wares as well as other hardware...

Stuck in the Linux Terminal? Do This Before You Google It  How-To Geek

Split Fiction from Hazelight Studios and EA gets Steam Deck Verified and no EA app needed  GamingOnLinux

Best lightweight Linux distro of 2025  TechRadar

Current GNU Compiler Collection release manager Richard Biener of SUSE provided an update concerning the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...

Just ahead of the AMD RDNA4 GPUs launching, the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has expanded a performance optimization technique for existing RDNA3 graphics processors...

Linux GPU Configuration Tool (LACT) upgrades NVIDIA clockspeed configuration  GamingOnLinux

When seeing a new AMDVLK release was just tagged on GitHub and just a few hours to go until the Radeon RX 9070 series announcement, I was hoping it was going to be a new driver officially rolling out their new RDNA4 GPU support. Today's AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 driver was not for officially introducing RDNA4 but does bring Strix Halo support and other improvements...

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Linux is a powerful and reliable operating system, but even seasoned users encounter unexpected problems. Whether it’s a deleted file,

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Port .NET Framework workloads to Linux with Amazon Q Developer, Part 2: Test Projects  AWS Blog

Intel initially detailed Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) back in mid-2023 as extensions to double the number of general purpose registers and add other performance features. In the time since they have done a lot preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers for the new APX ISA features while finally today they sent out an initial set of patches for preparing the Linux kernel for APX processors...

Intel Posts Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions  Phoronix

New Backdoor Auto-color Linux Targets Systems in US and Asia  HackRead

In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...

EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert  Phoronix

Minigalaxy Update Brings Easy Classic Windows Gaming to Linux  How-To Geek

A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today propose the introduction of a Linux Motion Control "LMC" subsystem for drivers that could control devices like CNC machines and 3D printers...

Linux Fu: USB Everywhere  Hackaday

SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and there is also now a public road-map concerning future development plans...