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Framework Computer Inc announced today that they have been working with DeepComputing on a partner-developed RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13...

What Is elementary OS? Hands-on With the Mac-Like Linux Distro  How-To Geek

Right on schedule today KDE released Plasma 6.1 as the first feature update to the Plasma 6 desktop stack that debuted back in February...

Announced back in March by the Linux Foundation was Valkey as a Redis fork following upstream licensing changes. In the few months since the Valkey in-memory NoSQL data store has put out its first release and has continued attracting more interest from Linux/open-source communities. Today the Linux Foundation announced another handful of organizations now throwing their weight behind Valkey...

More Companies Now Backing Valkey As Leading Redis Fork  Phoronix

Linux Foundation seeks collaborators for new interoperability open standard  Healthcare IT News

Linux Kernel 6.8 End of Life: Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.9 Now  Security Boulevard

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 now available with major kernel update and enhanced hardware support  Notebookcheck.net

The Portable Computing Language "PoCL" that started off as a CPU-based OpenCL implementation has grown to support multiple hardware targets from NVIDIA PTX to Intel Level Zero to AMD ROCm and other innovations like a recent remote driver for transparent OpenCL across networked systems. PoCL 6.0 was released today for delivering the latest enhancements to this independent OpenCL compute implementation and continuing to enhance support for its different hardware targets...

CentOS 7 holdouts thrown a support lifeline by SUSE  The Register

CentOS 7 holdouts thrown a support lifeline by SUSE  The Register

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has shown no signs of hitting the end of the road for optimizing OpenGL support within the Mesa/Gallium3D driver stack. More than one decade since joining AMD and more than a decade and a half of being involved with Mesa since beginning as a student developer, Marek still isn't slowing down with his performance optimizations and new features to benefit the open-source Radeon Linux graphics drivers...

KDE Plasma 6.1 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

A set of patches for the Linux kernel's Intel P-State driver aim to ensure Intel Xeon servers can hit their highest clock frequencies following changes in the server's performance profile. It turns out some special handling is needed to update the highest frequencies of a CPU after boot to ensure the performance profile is properly reflected...

New Linux Patches To Help Ensure Intel Xeon Servers Can Achieve Highest Frequencies  Phoronix

Tails 6.4 Anonymous OS Introduces Random Seed to Strengthen All Cryptography  9to5Linux

Fedora developers are hoping that the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 will ship before October and be all ready for serving as the default GIMP package with the in-development Fedora 41...

A set of patches were posted on Monday in aiming to get aging AMD Radeon GFX7/GFX8 era graphics processors working on Loongson LoongArch platforms. These patches for handling old Radeon Hawaii~Polaris GPUs on Loongson point to a "massive platform bug" with these domestic Chinese systems...

This Project Lets You Run Linux as an App on Android  It's FOSS News

Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too...