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While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you. Up today are my very initial GPU compute benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition on Linux with NVIDIA graphics card comparisons across the prior RTX 20, RTX, 30, and RTX 40 series too.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...

Liberux Nexx: Linux smartphone with special features  digitec magazine

The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...

Linux 6.14 Delivering Better Read Performance For CIFS  Phoronix

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 24 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME 48 Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn't a new official video player for this desktop release...

In addition to the Bcachefs features and new Btrfs code for Linux 6.14, the XFS file-system changes were merged on Thursday for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference  The Register

It's not only AI start-ups running into space and power capacity bottlenecks but the Fedora Project has been pushing the limits of its main data center and is preparing for a move to a new data center to allow for more physical space and power capacity. In turn one item mentioned is allowing space for possible RISC-V build systems for Fedora...

The GNOME 48 Alpha release was issued this morning for helping to test this updated desktop environment debuting as stable in March...

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH broken on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs but works with AMD GPUs like Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Don't Miss Out The Linux Foundation Certification Deal Before The Price Hike!  It's FOSS News

Proton Hotfix updated to get THE FINALS working again on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Building off last month's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 beta, Oracle today published the Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview for a first glimpse at this next RHEL10-derived operating system...

Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview Released With UEK-Next Based On Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Vivaldi 7.1 brings privacy-focused features to Windows, Mac, and Linux  BetaNews

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs  9to5Linux