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As part of my various year-end comparison benchmarking, I recently ran some tests looking at how the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA 4 performance has evolved since its debut near the beginning of the year. The Vulkan ray-tracing performance in particular was standing out this year as having evolved quite nicely while for conventional OpenGL and Vulkan performance the performance has been largely stable this year with its great at-launch support.

These 6 Linux apps let you monitor system resources in style  How-To Geek

Mozilla Corporation has named its new CEO in replacing interim CEO Laura Chambers...

Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivors dev gets a fun new trailer  GamingOnLinux

How we reduced Linux boot time on iMX93 to 1.8s  Hackster.io

There's no such thing as a beginner Linux distro (and there never will be)  How-To Geek

7 Reasons Windows Subsystem for Linux Works For Me  How-To Geek

Last year Red Hat acquired Neural Magic as part of their AI acquisitions and to bolster the open-source AI ecosystem. Today they announced another AI acquisition...

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 Is Now Available Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

The 5 best Linux apps for students  How-To Geek

After Decades, Linux Finally Gains Stable GPIB Support  Hackaday

Dual-PCB Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt — Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work  Tom's Hardware

Poly Bridge developer’s next game is Poly Bricks - a LEGO-like cozy, creative brick-building game  GamingOnLinux

I use these 5 grep options to find anything fast  How-To Geek

The ZLUDA open-source project that has been through several incarnations but ultimately about getting CUDA software up and running on non-NVIDIA GPUs now supports the AMD ROCm 7 series...

Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content...

5 Remarkable Lightweight OS Picks for Old Laptops  Techgenyz

While FreeBSD 15 stable was officially released earlier this month, MidnightBSD continues plotting its own course atop its FreeBSD 13 base. Out today is MidnightBSD 4.0 as the latest iteration of this desktop-minded BSD operating system...

Hollow Knight: Silksong to get a free expansion, Hollow Knight getting a refresh upgrade  GamingOnLinux

OpenShot 3.4 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source video editor app. OpenShot 3.4 happens to be "one of our largest updates we've ever done" with a variety of improvements in tow...