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The Firefox 124.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement tomorrow...

Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming  GamingOnLinux

With my recent NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU benchmarks carried out remotely via GPTshop.ai, besides looking at areas like the 64K kernel page size performance benefits I also ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance difference when the binaries were generated by LLVM Clang rather than the default GCC compiler on Ubuntu Linux. This article shows off the performance difference for the 72-core Neoverse-V2 server/HPC processor when leveraging LLVM Clang rather than the GNU Compiler Collection.

Determining leap years on Linux  Network World

Playtron: the startup hoping to Steam Deck-ify the world  The Verge

Zorin OS 17.1 makes it even easier to run your must-have Windows apps on Linux  ZDNet

Zorin OS 17.1 makes it even easier to run your must-have Windows apps on Linux  ZDNet

CoreCtrl 1.4 was released this weekend as the newest version of this open-source, independently-developed GUI utility for managing CPU and GPU performance characteristics and power/thermal monitoring under Linux, among other capabilities. CoreCtrl does a good job at offering basic GUI-driven controls and monitoring for CPUs and GPUs in the absence of any official GUI solutions by the likes of AMD and Intel...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues investing significant sums of money for important open-source projects. Among the latest projects receiving funding from the STF are the Rust-written Coreutils implementation and Reproducible Builds...

4MLinux 45.0 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS, New Printing Drivers  9to5Linux

ChimeraOS Linux 45-1 has improved support for AYANEO and ROG Ally  GamingOnLinux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 17th, 2024  9to5Linux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 17th, 2024  9to5Linux

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version  The Register

Ubuntu: Everything you need to know about this Linux distribution  DataScientest

Back in February AMD posted GCC compiler enablement support for Zen 5 with the new "znver5" target ahead of launch. Since then it's been rather quiet and nervous not seeing this support merged ahead of the upcoming GCC 14 stable release, but this morning it's finally happened: the AMD Zen 5 processor enablement has been merged to GCC Git in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release that will be out in the coming weeks...

Along with the input subsystem updates for the Linux 6.9 kernel, the HID subsystem updates were also merged in recent days for this next Linux kernel release. Notable of this pull is enabling support for some newer Samsung Wireless input devices...

Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Several Samsung Bluetooth HID Devices  Phoronix

Last year Linux kernel developers began clearing out code for Intel's nearly two decade old "Carillo Ranch" platform that was a 90nm 32-bit single core processor for embedded devices in the sub 20 Watt space. It was a ~2007 product that never shipped but the Linux kernel code was left in the upstream tree until beginning to see it removed last year...

While AMD P-State driver's Preferred Core support was merged for Linux 6.9, another notable addition to this driver is still undergoing the patch review process: Core Performance Boost...