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How to choose between Windows 10 IoT and Linux  TechTarget

Linux provider SUSE rebrands some of its offerings, and goes AI  TechHQ

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great  Phoronix

Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working on some fresh Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics benchmarks using the very latest upstream open-source code. In today's article is exploring how the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics is performing for OpenCL / GPU compute relative to the prior Meteor Lake Arc Graphics that were already a nice step-up over earlier Intel integrated graphics.

Huge new Proton 9.0-4 update for Steam Deck / Linux now in need of testing  GamingOnLinux

Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux  9to5Linux

Beyond Upstream First: The Linux Kernel Contribution Maturity Model  The New Stack

Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0  Phoronix

With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn soon should be available via the Ubuntu 25.04 archive...

The I3C subsystem updates were submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel on Monday and include support for another I3C HCI controller used on AMD systems...

AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13  Phoronix

This Is Why I Switched to Xfce for Linux Mint on My Older Laptop  How-To Geek

TuxCare Endless Lifecycle Support for End-of-Life Linux Now Available through cloudimg  EIN News

KDE Plasma 6.2.4 Re-Enables HDR Mode for Users on NVIDIA 565 and Linux 6.11  9to5Linux

Dev of Proton Sarek for older GPUs has forked DXVK to backport game settings and improve compatibility  GamingOnLinux

Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel...

In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle...

Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses  Phoronix

PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more  GamingOnLinux

The RDMA subsystem updates were sent out last Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel cycle. Most notable with the RDMA updates is the NVIDIA Mellanox "MLX5" network driver introducing a new Data Direct Placement (DDP) feature to further help with performance...