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While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

Garuda Linux Is Revamping Its Hardware Support  How-To Geek

Firefox 141 Adds AI Tab Groups, Reduces Memory Use on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

Fallout: Bakersfield looks like an awesome Doom total conversion with a new trailer  GamingOnLinux

World's first RISC-V tablet is finally fully baked — PineTab-V now ships with completely functional Linux for $149  Tom's Hardware

Microsoft signing key required for Secure Boot UEFI bootloader expires in September, which could be problematic for Linux users  Tom's Hardware

Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat  theregister.com

Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat  theregister.com

Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2  Phoronix

With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics to see where the Linux performance is now at for the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics.

This lightweight Linux distro makes switching from Windows 10 easy  ZDNET

Installing apps on Linux? 4 ways it's different than any other OS - and mistakes to avoid  ZDNET

The EROFS read-only file-system ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window has been working on metadata compression support to allow for even smaller container image sizes but at the cost of higher I/O latency...

EROFS Implementing Metadata Compression For Even Smaller Image Sizes  Phoronix

Made Linux Great Again? Linux Desktop Usage Hits Record High in the US  It's FOSS News

Intel's Linux Distro You Didn't Know About and Won't be Able to Use Now  It's FOSS News

5% Of All Desktop PCs in the US Are Now Running Linux  extremetech.com

The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History  Phoronix

Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clear Linux testing over its decade in existence as a high performance Intel Linux OS...