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Kubuntu Focus unveils Ir14 GEN 2 and Ir16 GEN 2 Linux laptops  BetaNews

Ventoy Is a Better Way to Make a Bootable Disk for PC and Linux  Lifehacker

With not hearing much about Fuchsia OS in a while and the Fuchsia OS team being hit hard by layoffs last year, coming as a surprise today is seeing Google beginning to upstream Fuchsia OS support into the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack...

NVIDIA reveal new security issues in their GPU drivers for June 2024  GamingOnLinux

The patches have been years in the making around AMD SEV-SNP encrypted virtualization and various elements have been upstreamed in prior kernel versions while for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle are finally the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) bits for launching SEV-SNP protected guest virtual machines...

Linux 6.11 To Merge Support For Running AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guests  Phoronix

I Tried Out an AI-Powered Linux Terminal, Here's How It Went  How-To Geek

The patches recently covered on Phoronix for up to 162% faster AES-GCM encryption/decryption with modern Intel and AMD processors is now queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle!..

Big Speed Boost For AES-GCM Performance On Intel & AMD CPUs Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.11  Phoronix

blendOS v4 Released With Android App Support  It's FOSS News

SPIR-V used by the likes of OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan is a common intermediate representation (IR) / intermediate language for consumption by device drivers. With code now merged into LLVM, AMD has introduced the notion of vendor "flavored" SPIR-V for containing extra information pertinent to the GPU device/driver being targeted...

Turn Ubuntu into the Perfect Web Dev Setup in a Single Command  OMG! Ubuntu!

AMD adds GFX1152 "Kraken Point" APU with RDNA3.5 graphics to open-source Linux drivers  VideoCardz.com

Ubuntu Linux Core 24 is a leap forward for IoT and edge computing  ZDNet

On Thursday the first set of Intel Xe driver feature updates were submitted to DRM-Next of material intended for merging with the Linux 6.11 kernel in July...

Intel's Xe Driver Preps For SR-IOV Support & More Lunar Lake With Linux 6.11  Phoronix

The second beta is now available for testing of the upcoming Python 3.13 release that is bringing an experimental JIT, a new interactive interpreter, and other big features for this annual Python feature release...

Merged to the Linux kernel back in 2018 was an LG Gram laptop driver for supporting various hotkeys and extra functionality of these LG laptops. That driver is now being extended to support the latest LG Gram laptop models...

Improved Linux Driver Support Coming For LG Gram 2024 Laptop Models  Phoronix

Obsidian gave Pillars of Eternity a big patch - Linux and macOS updates being investigated  GamingOnLinux