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Upgrade To Windows 11 Or Switch To Linux Before End Of Support For Windows 10: ESET  ETV Bharat

A pull request submitted this week to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is introducing the notion of device memory "DMEM" to cgroup with the main intended use being to restrict device memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy such as for graphics cards with their dedicated vRAM...

Device Memory "DMEM" Cgroup Support Ready For Linux 6.14 To Allow Limiting GPU vRAM  Phoronix

Originally proposed for the Linux kernel nearly one year ago was CBD as the CXL Block Device. Now up to its third revision, the Linux CBD patches are calming down and the performance gains are looking quite nice...

CXL Block Device "CBD" Looking Very Promising For The Linux Kernel In 2025  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release with Monday having brought the fifth and potentially final release candidate...

Firefox 134 Brings Touch Hold Gestures to Linux, Ecosia Search + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to set up a print server on your home network with Linux  ZDNet

Slackware-Based Distro Absolute Linux Discontinued by Developer  It's FOSS News

Logging Baby’s Day In Linux  Hackaday

Linux Trends Shaping the Future of Data Mining  Linux Journal

AI darling Nvidia trots out new RTX 50 series, robots, and Linux desktop at CES  Malay Mail

The latest from a rather active CES 2025 is NVIDIA announcing the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series line-up...

What's your favorite self-hosted service?  XDA Developers

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11  9to5Linux

How to Install Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10  9to5Linux

Mecha Comet is a Modular, Handheld Linux Computer That Can Even Play DOOM  TechEBlog

AMD's CES 2025 keynote was used to announce a slew of new products. They are just announcements today without any immediate availability or any hardware reviews to publish, but a look ahead for what is on the horizon for AMD in the consumer space in 2025.

In addition to the HDMI Forum announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification for release in the first half of this year, VESA also took to CES 2025 to announce their forthcoming DisplayPort 2.1b standard...

The HDMI Forum used CES for today announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification that will be available to HDMI 2.x adopters in the first half of the calendar year...