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AMD Readies More Kernel Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.11, Enables DCC For RDNA4  Phoronix

Budgie 10.9.2 Desktop Arrives with Bug Fixes as Wayland Porting Continues  9to5Linux

Budgie 10.9.2 Desktop Arrives with Bug Fixes as Wayland Porting Continues  9to5Linux

Red Hat engineer Leonardo Bras has laid out a proposal for QPWs, or "Queue PerCPU Work", as a better means of handling per-CPU operations within the Linux kernel especially for real-time (RT) workloads...

Linux Mint 22 Beta Coming Early July, as ISO Enters Testing  OMG! Ubuntu!

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads...

Flathub Has Now Served More Than Two Billion Downloads For Flatpaks  Phoronix

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

Bcachefs Making Tiny Steps Toward Full Self-Healing Capabilities  Phoronix

Merged on Friday to LLVM 19 Git is a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for lowering the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation down into SPIR-V as the intermediate representation consumed by OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan drivers...

GNOME developers continue to be very busy with a variety of initiatives thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) financing as well as other general development efforts as they work their way toward GNOME 47 in September...

Following this week's great KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop release, developers have been fixing some minor bugs and other issues that were raised by early users of this updated open-source Qt6-powered desktop...

Experts found a bug in the Linux version of RansomHub ransomware  Security Affairs

KDE Plasma 6.1 brings many enhancements to the popular Linux desktop  Notebookcheck.net

Intel Slips Battlemage Support And Power-Saving Features Into Linux 6.11  Hot Hardware

USENIX Security ’23 – Uncontained: Uncovering Container Confusion in the Linux Kernel  Security Boulevard

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker...

While more software piles on AI features these days, today's release of the Darktable 4.8 RAW photography software has removed one of its AI features after realizing it only delivers mediocre quality...

Oi Grandad v2, free granular Synthesizer plugin (mac, linux, win) gets a major makeover  Synth Anatomy

VKD3D-Proton 2.13 is now available as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API translation later that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for accelerating D3D12 Windows games on Linux...