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For years there has been the RKVDEC Linux media driver to provide accelerated video decoding on Rockchip SoCs. Being worked on now is RKVDEC2 for providing video decoding on the newer Rockchip SoCs...

RKVDEC2 Driver Posted For Accelerated Video Decoding On Newer Rockchip SoCs  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11 as that newest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with some 428 patches re-based atop this latest upstream Wine code...

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer

A Linux power management change merged on Friday aims to help ensure AMD Ryzen systems with NVMe solid-state drive storage will work properly when resuming from suspend...

New Linux Change Helps Ensure AMD Ryzen With NVMe Works After Resuming From Suspend  Phoronix

Install Ollama AI on Ubuntu Linux to Use LLMs on Your Own Machine  The New Stack

SparkyLinux 7.4 'Orion Belt' update rolls out: Here's what's new  BetaNews

GNOME's longtime document viewer, Evince, was recently forked as GNOME Papers and saw its first release a few weeks back. This new GNOME document viewer has been ported from GTK3 to GTK4 and also brings an improved user interface and other refinements...

Apple compiler engineers have contributed Apple M4 CPU support to the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler via the new -mcpu=apple-m4 target. Interestingly the Apple M4 is exposed as an ARMv8.7 derived design...

KDE Plasma 6.1 is preparing for release next week on 18 June. KDE developers this week have thus been very busy with last minute finishing touches to this updated desktop while also already beginning feature work on Plasma 6.2...

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord  BleepingComputer

Download YouTube Videos in Linux Command Line Using youtube-dl  It's FOSS

Adélie Linux is an Intriguing Independent Distribution  It's FOSS News

Wine 9.11 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms. With Wine 9.11 we are now roughly at the half-way point before Wine's typical feature freeze and release candidate start that typically begins around early December and this cycle will lead up to the Wine 10.0 stable release in early 2025...

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)...

LibreOffice 24.8 is now available in beta form for those wanting to test this open-source, cross-platform office suite alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office...

Ubuntu’s App Center Now Finally Supports Installation of Local DEB Packages  9to5Linux

Ubuntu's App Center Now Finally Supports Installation of Local DEB Packages  9to5Linux