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Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow. This first Firefox update of 2025 brings a few new features to Linux users and those on other platforms...

Forums PC Discussion - The biggest threat to Windows is Steam  VGChartz

Kero Quest 64 looks like a classic Nintendo 64 / PS1 game and it's coming to Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Slackware-Based Absolute Linux Has Been Discontinued  info-mods.com

Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux  9to5Linux

NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO) process. For some workloads NVIDIA is finding this -flto-partition=locality compiler option being of significant help for bettering the CPU performance...

Discord Canary on Linux breaks Wayland screen-sharing support for now  GamingOnLinux

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200H / Core Ultra 200HX Series  Phoronix

Intel used the start of CES 2025 for announcing the newest Arrow Lake processors for the Core Ultra 200H and Core Utra 200HX mobile processors...

Along with other recent Linux kernel patches around atomic write support, a set of Device Mapper (DM) patches were posted today for implementing said functionality...

Red Hat Reaches Key Milestone in Push to Functional Safety Certification for Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System  Business Wire

Mecha Comet is a modular, handheld Linux computer with snap-on extensions  Engadget

Mecha Comet is a modular, handheld Linux computer with snap-on extensions  Engadget

Mecha Comet is a modular, handheld Linux computer with snap-on extensions  Yahoo News Australia

A discussion that originally started last summer has been reignited: whether it's time to retire GlusterFS within Fedora Linux. But following discussions in recent days, there may be a new packager willing to take over but it doesn't change the fact of declining upstream activity around GlusterFS...

Maxime Ripard of Red Hat today sent out the first set of "drm-misc-next" patches of 2025 for queuing into DRM-Next until the Linux 6.14 merge window opens in the coming weeks...

HiSilicon HIBMC DP Support For Linux 6.14, Additional AMDXDNA Fixes Queued  Phoronix

For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for handling touchscreen, touchpad, and related touch input devices. On Sunday the fourth iteration of these driver patches were sent out as these new Intel open-source drivers near the mainline Linux kernel...

Intel Touch Host Controller Drivers Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux-powered handheld computer connects to Raspberry Pi HATs, snap-on modules  Tom's Hardware