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Completely ridiculous online 1v1 shooter STRAFTAT added a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Delivers Excellent Performance For Linux Developers, Creators & Technical Computing  Phoronix

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs in retail channels, today the embargo lifts on being able to deliver Ryzen 9 9950X3D reviews and performance benchmarks. Simply put, for Linux creators, developers, enthusiasts, and others running technical computing workloads and other similar tasks on their desktop, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D with its 16 cores / 32 threads and 144MB total cache makes for an excellent desktop CPU. In this review are around 400 Linux benchmarks looking at the captivating performance and competitive power efficiency of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

How to Limit Charging Level in Linux (and Prolong Battery Life)  It's FOSS

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is "passing on" development of the extension moving forward...

NVIDIA's Rust-Based NOVA Driver Poised For Linux Kernel Integration  MENAFN.COM

A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!..

Patches were posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List this morning for wiring up the ESWIN EIC7700 RISC-V SoC support and the most notable board using this SoC so far, the SiFive HiFive Premier P550...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For The ESWIN EIC7700 SoC + SiFive HiFive Premier P550  Phoronix

LXQt 2.2 Desktop Promises Many Wayland Improvements, QTerminal Updates  9to5Linux

The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications...

New Linux Kernel Code Written In Rust To Eliminate Memory Safety Bugs  CybersecurityNews

COSMIC Desktop Arrives on Garuda Linux  It's FOSS News

Since last year we have continued to be impressed by the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server processors while today they are announcing the EPYC Embedded 9005 line-up. The AMD EPYC Embedded 9005 Series processors are much like the EPYC 9005 series processors but with a few differences...

New pricing makes FoundriesFactory™ service more affordable for smaller OEMs and easier for Linux product developers to evaluate  Longview News-Journal

New pricing makes FoundriesFactory™ service more affordable for smaller OEMs and easier for Linux product developers to evaluate  WV News

New pricing makes FoundriesFactory™ service more affordable for smaller OEMs and easier for Linux product developers to evaluate  PR Newswire

FreeBSD 13.5 is out today as the final update to the FreeBSD 13 series. Users should begin making plans for upgrading to the current FreeBSD 14 stable series or eyeing the future FreeBSD 15.0 release...

The upcoming Red Hat OpenShift Commons Gathering in London is taking place on April 1, co-located alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. OpenShift Commons Gatherings bring together users, partners, customers, contributors and upstream project leads to collaborate and work together across the OpenShift cloud-native ecosystem. Next month’s event is shaping up to have a great line up of end-users who will be sharing use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way. The event will also feature an Ask-me-Anything area, breakout sessions, labs and the presentation of

Building off the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release from January, OpenZFS 2.3.1 is out today with Linux 6.13 kernel compatibility as well as various bug fixes...