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The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop  Phoronix

Over Half A Million Windows Users Are Switching To Linux - Here's Why  bgr.com

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit  GamingOnLinux

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit  GamingOnLinux

The new Kali Linux, another Raspberry Pi imager, Ubuntu Studio's redesign, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu's monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google's Gemini AI also generated some sloppy code for a Python script to assist in those Ubuntu releases...

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...

Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux...

There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas...

For helping with the I/O performance in virtualized environments, merged this week to the DragonFlyBSD development code is multi-queue support for its VirtIO block "virtio_blk" driver...

Floppy Linux  Hackaday

Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible  Hackaday

Modder Runs AMD FSR 4 Redstone Frame Generation on RDNA 3 but Only on Linux  TechPowerUp

Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for Linux printing via the XDG Portal. This is important to allow print support from within Flatpak or Snap sandboxed versions of Google's web browser...

Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes  GamingOnLinux

In working toward the Wine 11.0 stable release in January, Wine 11.0-rc3 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate...

Vintage GPIB standard finally joins Linux kernel  TechRadar

For the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel the initial Xe3P_LPD GPU support was merged for the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake processors. There were some initial Xe3P_LPD display patches also merged for Linux 6.19 but it looks like for Linux 6.20 (or what may end up being known as Linux 7.0), the display support will actually be functional for driving monitors from Nova Lake...

Azulle Access Arm is a fanless Linux PC stick with an RK3576 processor for $120 and up  Liliputing