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Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know  How-To Geek

Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know  How-To Geek

RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions  Phoronix

Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Microsoft Says Throw Away Your Windows 10 Computers  Daily Kos

Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI  Phoronix

APT 3.0 has been officially released as the first stable version following an interesting development cycle. APT 3.0 has been dedicated to the late Steve Langasek with his many Debian and Ubuntu contributions over the years...

In addition to all the KDE Plasma activity this week, GNOME developers have also been quiet busy working on a variety of improvements to the open-source desktop on their side of the pond...

LACT 0.7.3 is out this weekend as the newest feature update to this Linux GPU configuration and monitoring tool. LACT helps make up for the lack of any official GUI-based GPU configuration tool on Linux provided by AMD or Intel. It also works on NVIDIA GPUs too for providing a nice unified app for GPU configuration from all three major GPU vendors...

FEX 2504 is out with its newest monthly feature update for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts. This alternative to QEMU and Box64 continues focusing on new performance optimizations to further enhance the appeal and speedy potential of this x86_64-on-ARM64 emulator...

LACT 0.7.3 Further Enhances This GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool  Phoronix

Intel Open Image Denoise Adds Support For AMD RDNA4 & NVIDIA Blackwell  Phoronix

Intel's Open Image Denoise library that is part of their oneAPI Rendering Toolkit as a set of open-source, high performance denoising filters for ray-traced images is out with a new release. Open Image Denoise is used by applications like Blender and with this version 2.3.3 release is expanded GPU support...

Firefox 137 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  info-mods.com

It's been a busy start to April for KDE Plasma developers as they continue working toward the Plasma 6.4 feature release. There have been yet more crash fixes along with other polishing and stability enhancements to kick off the new month...

8 Pins For Linux  Hackaday

8 Pins For Linux  Hackaday

7 Code Editors You Can Use for Vibe Coding on Linux  It's FOSS