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Linux cpupower Utility To See Improved AMD Support With Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts...

Global MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Size,  openPR

Sigil 2.4 Open-Source EPUB Ebook Editor Released with New Features and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

With SteamOS Expanding Beyond Steam Deck, Is It Game Over For Bazzite?  Forbes

Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities  Phoronix

Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AMD CPU instruction set extensions. For Fedora 42 is now a proposal to extend that further to allow binary executables to also leverage glibc HWCAPs for better performance...

Linux Mint 22.1 BETA phase ends with 115 reports leading to crucial bug fixes  BetaNews

Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages...

Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Voyager Linux Offers a User-Friendly, Customized GNOME  The New Stack

Debian 12.9 “Bookworm” Arrives with 72 Bug Fixes and 38 Security Updates  9to5Linux

Ghostty is a beautiful new terminal emulator for macOS and Linux that you should try  XDA Developers

On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs  Phoronix

How to rip your audio CDs to MP3 from the Linux terminal with abcde  Tom's Hardware

This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Haswell era graphics platforms, on Friday another (smaller) pull request was sent in for the modern Xe kernel driver...

Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...

Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...