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For anyone still relying upon virtual reality (VR) applications written for the OpenGL API rather than the Vulkan API that has been dominant among VR apps (and other modern games / software) for years, the Mesa code and in particular the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver now supports the OpenGL VR (OVR) extensions...

An interesting merge request opened this week and already merged for Mesa 24.3 comes from an Autodesk engineer adding Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) around Apple's Metal API for use on macOS...

Wind River Unveils Linux Distro for AI and Critical Workloads  The New Stack

What is open-source and how does it benefit you?  ZDNet

GNOME 47 Is Coming to a Linux Desktop Near You  How-To Geek

GTA V Online's new kernel anti-cheat rug-pull unnecessarily breaks Steam Deck and Linux compatibility  Notebookcheck.net

20 years later, real-time Linux makes it to the kernel - really  ZDNet

20 Years in the making: Real-Time Linux finally makes it to the kernel  ZDNet

The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...

Fedora Linux 41 beta drops Python 2 and upgrades the DNF package manager  Notebookcheck.net

GNOME 47 Denver transforms the Linux desktop with new features and improved performance  BetaNews

GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment...

At New York Fashion Week With Internet Personality Linux (Not The Software)  Complex

GNOME 47 “Denver” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

CIQ Partners with Ansys on Optimized Rocky Linux Deployment  PR Web

Valkey 8.0 rides high at Open Source Summit in Vienna  The Stack

For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in looking at the performance of this high-end workstation graphics card on the up-to-date Linux software stack. The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation is tested alongside the RTX 2000 / 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards and also the AMD Radeon PRO W7000 series competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS Review  Phoronix

Compact Linux Gaming Beast: MinisForum EM 780  Geeky Gadgets

Not to be confused with the proposal a few days ago by an AMD engineer for Attack Vector Controls for broader control over CPU security mitigation handling, the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel is adding new Kconfig options to allow for more build-time control over what CPU security mitigation code is compiled for the kernel...