Open-source News

Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November...

Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes  Phoronix

6 Ways to Find and Replace Text in the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

How to Find Resource-Hogging Processes Using the Linux Command Line  How-To Geek

Apple Maps on Web Now Works on Linux (But Only in Firefox)  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Navigate Your File System Using the Linux Terminal  How-To Geek

Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop to integrate Night Light for improved eye comfort  BetaNews

Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in  Tom's Hardware

The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...

Sorry Steam Deck Apex Legends players, those Linux cheaters means the battle royale won't be officially supported on the handheld anymore  VG247

Valve Engineer's AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228% on RDNA 2 GPUs  Tom's Hardware

Linux Mint is Adding a Native ‘Night Light’ Feature to Cinnamon  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Built-In Tools Are So Powerful, You Build a Database With Them. Here's How  How-To Geek

AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13  Phoronix

The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...

The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...

Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer  Phoronix

Linux Mint Is Getting a Night Light Feature in Cinnamon, Framework Laptop Support  9to5Linux

With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop powered by Ampere Altra. Here are some benchmarks showing those big speed-ups for ARM-based AV1 encoding...

Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...