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How to build a $240 gaming PC - Boing Boing

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 20:05

How to build a $240 gaming PC Boing Boing

I Stopped Using Linux for a Year, Here's What Brought Me Back - How-To Geek

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 19:00

I Stopped Using Linux for a Year, Here's What Brought Me Back How-To Geek

Linux 6.12 To Add New Build Options For More Fine-Grained Control Over CPU Mitigations

Phoronix - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 18:35

The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year is expected to see a number of new Kconfig options introduced for greater build-time control over what CPU speculative execution security mitigations are included as part of the kernel build...

LLVM/Clang 20 Compiler Begins Seeing Intel AVX10.2 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 18:23

In-step with the GCC compiler beginning to see Intel AVX10.2 support patches, the LLVM Clang 20 Git code is already seeing initial AVX10.2 code merged for this open-source compiler...

New attack on Linux kernel bypasses modern defense - Techzine Europe

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 18:07

New attack on Linux kernel bypasses modern defense Techzine Europe

ETA Prime builds sub $250 Linux gaming PC - Notebookcheck.net

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 17:35

ETA Prime builds sub $250 Linux gaming PC Notebookcheck.net

At Last, Chumby Is Ready - Hackaday

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 16:00

At Last, Chumby Is Ready Hackaday

Fractal 8 Released: The Linux Matrix Messaging App Gets Better! - It's FOSS News

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 15:16

Fractal 8 Released: The Linux Matrix Messaging App Gets Better! It's FOSS News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 4th, 2024 - 9to5Linux

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 07:56

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 4th, 2024 9to5Linux

Forget Microsoft Windows 11, Nitrux 3.6.0 should be your next OS - BetaNews

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 05:48

Forget Microsoft Windows 11, Nitrux 3.6.0 should be your next OS BetaNews

Linux 6.11-rc2 Addresses A Lot Of "Silly Noise"

Phoronix - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 05:15

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.11 is now available for testing...

Linux 6.11-rc2 Addresses A Lot Of "Silly Noise" - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 05:15

Linux 6.11-rc2 Addresses A Lot Of "Silly Noise" Phoronix

GNOME Shell 47 Beta Brings Hardware Encoding When Screen Recording & More

Phoronix - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 03:03

As the next step toward releasing GNOME 47.0 in mid-September, the GNOME 47 beta release is imminent and today the GNOME Shell and Mutter compositor "47.beta" releases were made...

GNU Binutils 2.43 Released With Intel APX Assembler Preparations & More

Phoronix - Mon, 08/05/2024 - 01:35

GNU Binutils 2.43 is out as stable this Sunday as the newest update to this important piece of the open-source GNU compiler toolchain...

The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 22:47

The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines Phoronix

The Open-Source AMD GPU Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Nears 5.8 Million Lines

Phoronix - Sun, 08/04/2024 - 22:47

Last August I wrote an article about the open-source AMD GPU kernel driver crossing 5 million lines of code -- including their overzealous header files -- and following the recent Linux 6.11 merge window curiosity got the best of me with how much larger the kernel driver is now that the initial RDNA4 support is merged... Well, it's about to cross 5.8 million lines, or about a 16% increase just over the past year...

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