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AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs  Phoronix

Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs becoming useful on Linux and able to handle LLMs...

Zenclora Delivers Superfast Linux With One Standout Feature  findarticles.com

8 powerful Apt commands I use to unlock hidden features - and why they're so handy  ZDNET

Fedora 44 Beta Goes Live With Updated Gnome and KDE Desktops and Linux 6.19 Kernel  TechPowerUp

With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases -- especially with Mutter 50 having some NVIDIA optimizations. In today's article is a first look at how the NVIDIA Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 26.04 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.10 release.

Ubuntu 26.04 With GNOME 50 Offering Some Performance Benefits For NVIDIA Linux Gaming  Phoronix

I tried Zenclora, a super-fast Linux distro with zero bloat - and one truly special feature  ZDNET

SUSE May Undergo Another Ownership Change in Potential $6 Billion Sale  Linuxiac

The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support. Now with today's D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan...

Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes...

Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support  Phoronix

Reality check: These 4 pain points are still holding Linux back  Yahoo Tech

Reality check: These 4 pain points are still holding Linux back  How-To Geek

CRIL Uncovers ClipXDaemon: Autonomous Linux Clipboard Hijacker Targeting Cryptocurrency Transactions  CXOToday.com

Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux 44 beta unifies the KDE Plasma experience across editions  Notebookcheck

Deepin is the best-looking Linux distro—here's why I don’t use it  How-To Geek

Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed patches from a SUSE engineer, the IPv6 networking stack would be limited to being a kernel built-in or not at all. In doing away with IPv6 as a loadable kernel module would allow simplifying some code and lowering the Linux networking maintenance burden...

System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks  GamingOnLinux