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FreeBSD 13.4-RC1 has been released ahead of its planned official release in early September. While the FreeBSD 14 series delivers the latest and greatest, FreeBSD 13.4 is a nice incremental update for those still depending upon a FreeBSD 13 base...

Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.2 soft feature freeze happening next week, KDE developers have been preparing some last minut features for the desktop...

AMD's latest Ryzen 9 9950X goes like the clappers on Linux  Fudzilla

Wine 9.16 is out as the newest bi-weekly development snapshot for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications on Linux...

What Would Make You Switch to Android?  Review Geek

1. Microsoft shares temp fix for Linux boot issues on dual-boot systems  BleepingComputer
2. Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs  The Verge
3. Windows update breaks Linux dual boot - but there is a fix for some users  ZDNet

Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from  The Register

Google Android engineers have shared a status update on bringing support for 16KB page size handling to Android. In moving from a 4KB to 16KB page size, Google has found a 5~10% performance boost but at the cost of around ~9% additional RAM usage...

The Bochs Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver is in the process of being modernized. The Bochs driver is important in that it's commonly used for virtual VGA output with QEMU for Linux virtualization...

Bochs DRM Linux Driver Being Modernized - Better Performance For QEMU Display  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust adoption, and why the Linux kernel is 'the only thing that matters'  ZDNet

5 lightweight operating systems I run on my old laptops  Pocket-lint

Vulkan 1.3.294 is out today with a handful of fixes and clarifications to this high performance graphics and compute API. In addition to the maintenance work, Vulkan 1.3.294 introduces a new pipeline binary extension: VK_KHR_pipeline_binary...

Proton VPN Finally Adds WireGuard Support for Linux Users  It's FOSS News

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue feverishly working on the Xe2 graphics support both for imminently-launching Lunar Lake laptops and then the Battlemage discrete graphics cards. This week more "missing bits" were addressed in new Intel Linux graphics driver code on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window...

Intel Preps More Xe2 Lunar Lake & Battlemage Driver Code For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

A set of a dozen patches have reworked the video encode handling within Mesa 24.3 for the Video Acceleration (VA) front-end and the RadeonSI/VCN driver code. This rework aims to enable new features moving forward, enhance the overall driver, and bring "significant" memory savings for H.265/HEVC video encoding...

As part of catering to Google requirements around Google Chromebooks, AMD has been supporting Sound Open Firmware as the Intel-initiated open-source project across their APUs/SoCs. Sent out today was the patch for enabling ACP 7.0 SOF support for their newest SoCs like Strix Point to have Sound Open Firmware support...

AMD Prepares Sound Open Firmware Driver For ACP7.0 Hardware  Phoronix

KubeCon China - at 33-and-a-third, Linux is a long player. So, why does Linus Torvalds hate AI?  diginomica