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GPU Acceleration in Linux Terminals: What It Is and Why It's Useful  How-To Geek

Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel. Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel...

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15 merge window expected to begin next week, a batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD Radeon kernel driver updates were sent out on Friday for this next kernel cycle. It's mostly about bug fixes but does container cleaner shader support for AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics...

AMD RDNA 3.5 Cleaner Shader Support Prepped For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal  Android Authority

How Linux Took Over the World (Without Anyone Noticing)  How-To Geek

How Linux Took Over the World (Without Anyone Noticing)  Review Geek

11 Ways to Do Math on the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux v6.14 kernel expected for release tomorrow and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window, Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft began sending out his pull requests today of new code he's hoping to see merged for this next cycle. One of those interesting pulls is the work for block devices to allow for block sizes to be greater than the page size...

Code Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 For Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size  Phoronix

Haiku OS developer X512 has managed a rather impressive feat: porting NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules to Haiku. Not only did he get NVIDIA's official Linux kernel modules running on Haiku but he also ported the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver to be able to run atop the NVIDIA kernel driver interface...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver Ported To Haiku OS, Mesa NVK Adapted To Run On Top  Phoronix

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

Wine 10.4 is out tonight as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

GNOME 48 Released with Major New Features  OMG! Ubuntu!

AMD has been on a software / container / documentation spree recently around ROCm and today are announcing another software addition to the ROCm portfolio: AITER...

Microsoft's newest open-source contribution to the Linux kernel being proposed is... Hornet, a Linux security module (LSM) for providing signature verification of eBPF programs...

Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...