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The LLVM Fortran "Flang" compiler effort has been a long time coming over the years with this programming language continuing to be popular among some HPC codebases and other applications. The "Flang-New" compiler code has been maturing nicely and is looking like soon it could be possibly be renamed to Flang...

Dolphin Emulator is creating an official Linux Flatpak for the Steam Deck GameCube and Wii emulation  ReadWrite

The AMD PMC driver used for the SoC power management controller already supports the initial AMD Zen 5 SoCs but new patches coming in as "fixes" for the Linux 6.11 kernel extend the coverage for some upcoming AMD platforms...

Intel Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the Xe Direct Rendering Manager that is becoming the default kernel graphics driver beginning with Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage hardware (it currently works as an experimental option with existing Intel graphics hardware going back to Tigerlake). The latest work coming out of Intel is their latest push on enabling GPU Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Azure Linux as Microsoft's in-house Linux operating system that is used for a variety of purposes is out with a new feature release...

Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0.20240824 Enables More Kernel Features, Adds XWayland  Phoronix

Being merged for Mesa 24.3 to the Freedreno open-source Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs is now supporting the Adreno 621 and 505 graphics processors...

Microsoft releases KB5041587 update for Windows 11, improving Windows Share, Narrator and Voice Access, but failing to address Linux dual boot issues  BetaNews

The best Linux web hosting services in 2024  Tom's Guide

A Simple Ubuntu Fail Made Me Want to Try Fedora: I Love it!  It's FOSS News

Linux Distribution deepin 23 Officially Released  Linux Journal

Lightweight Polish Linux distro 4MLinux hits version 46.0  Notebookcheck.net

RISC-V NOMMU Linux now runs on the Raspberry Pi RP2350  Adafruit Blog

Coming as a surprise this afternoon is Microsoft deciding to contribute the Mono Project to be stewarded by the Wine development community...

For those planning on upgrading to an AMD Ryzen 9 9900 series Zen 5 desktop for Linux use, here are some benchmarks I recently carried out of several different DDR5 memory kits with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X while looking at the Linux performance under a variety of different workloads.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X DDR5-6000 / DDR5-6400 / DDR5-8000 Memory Performance Review  Phoronix

Battlefield 1 gets EA anticheat in September - will be left broken on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Watch out Windows — Linux market share could hit a major milestone soon  TechRadar

4MLinux 46 Mini Linux Distro Released with New Apps, Integrated LAMP Server  9to5Linux

4MLinux 46 Mini Linux Distro Released with New Apps, Integrated LAMP Server  9to5Linux