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The LXQt Desktop Environment Is Now 100% Wayland-Ready  9to5Linux

GE-Proton 9-1 brings a whole lot of fixes for Linux / Steam Deck gaming  GamingOnLinux

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary outlining the interesting feature work and bug fixes to land in the KDE space. Being fresh off the recent Plasma 6.0 release, a lot of bug reports are still coming in while developers are already busy tackling new features for Plasma 6.1...

MINIX Z100-0dB review – Part 3: A fanless Intel N100 mini PC tested with Ubuntu 22.04  CNX Software

Wine 9.4 is out today as a rather notable bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

While the Linux v6.8 kernel may debut as stable as soon as this weekend, a last-minute pull request of some new AMD graphics IP was submitted today to DRM-Next in aiming to make it for the imminent Linux 6.9 merge window...

Vulkan 1.3.280 is out today as the newest spec update for this high performance graphics, compute, and video API...

6 quality of life features Windows can learn from Linux  XDA Developers

Emerging Trends in Embedded Linux IoT Security  Security Boulevard

While Ubuntu 24.04 LTS won't be officially out until the back-half of April, here is an early look at how the Intel Xeon Scable "Emerald Rapids" performance is looking right now compared to Ubuntu 23.10 and the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS series in a variety of benchmarks. As largely expected with the software updates, the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will help achieve greater server/HPC performance on recent Intel processors.

Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids  Phoronix

Announced one month ago by Cyberus Technology was an open-source KVM back-end for VirtualBox. This work by Cyberus allows for using the KVM hypervisor with VirtualBox as opposed to its custom kernel module maintained by Oracle. That KVM back-end has now been extended to support SR-IOV graphics virtualization...

Juno Computers Launches Neptune 17 v6 Linux Laptop with Up to NVIDIA RTX 4090  9to5Linux

AMD engineers and those debugging s2idle suspend/resume issues for Ryzen laptops under Linux will soon have more information at disposal for newer SoCs supporting MP2 STB functionality...

Improved Debugging Of Suspend/Resume For AMD Ryzen Laptops On Linux Coming With MP2 STB  Phoronix

Proton Hotfix updated for Apex Legends to work again on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

How to speed up your computer without spending money or upgrading hardware  TechRadar

The optional case-insensitive file/folder handling under Linux that's hooked up for various file-systems like EXT4 and F2FS will benefit from improved performance on the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Steam Deck hits over 14000 games rated Playable or Verified  GamingOnLinux

Magnet Goblin Targets Publicly Facing Servers Using 1-Day Vulnerabilities  Check Point Research