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Are You Planning to Try Linux Mint 22?  How-To Geek

Are You Planning to Try Linux Mint 22?  How-To Geek

Following Linus Torvalds receiving an Ampere Altra Max workstation from Ampere Computing, he's been dabbling more with ARM64 now that it affords him more AArch64 compute power than his Apple Silicon powered MacBook. Torvalds kicked off the Linux 6.11 merge window by landing some of his own code to further enhance the ARM64 kernel and as we approach the end of the v6.11 merge window this weekend, he's merged some more ARM64 code...

Linus Torvalds Addresses His Latest ARM64 Annoyance: Installing Compressed Kernel Images  Phoronix

Printer Saved by Linux and Raspberry Pi @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi  Adafruit Blog

With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products. Over the past two years the support has evolved so much that NVIDIA is now promoting their open-source kernel driver usage and with the NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta posted this week they are defaulting to using their open-source kernel driver modules in place of the proprietary option -- on the Turing and newer GPUs supported by the open-source code. Here is a fresh look at the impact.

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review  Phoronix

NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review  Phoronix

Fwupd Linux Firmware Updater Adds Unofficial Support for Raspberry Pi 5  9to5Linux

Fwupd Linux Firmware Updater Adds Unofficial Support for Raspberry Pi 5  9to5Linux

Fwupd Linux Firmware Updater Adds Unofficial Support for Raspberry Pi 5  9to5Linux

LLVM 19.1-rc1 was released today as the first tagged development snapshot of LLVM 19 that is working its way toward the stable LLVM 19.1 version expected in September...

Linux Mint 22 is an attractive option for migrating away from Windows  Ghacks

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 1.9.22 as the newest version of this open-source solution for allowing system and peripheral firmware updates to be carried out quickly and easily from Linux systems...

Linux Mint 22 lands with improved language and hardware support  Notebookcheck.net

Linux Mint 22 lands with improved language and hardware support  Notebookcheck.net

Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now  GamingOnLinux

Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Get ‘Kali Linux Penetration Testing Bible’ (worth $25) for FREE  BetaNews