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The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved of Fedora 41 switching from power-profiles-daemon to "Tuned" as the default power profile management daemon on Fedora Workstation as well as the KDE Plasma and Budgie desktop spins...

Do You Need to Be a Computer Wiz to Use Linux? 4 Misconceptions Debunked  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux gets its own Windows-style Blue Screen of Death  PCWorld

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration  Liliputing

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