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NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 560 Beta Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 560 Beta Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default  9to5Linux

NVIDIA today released their first Linux beta driver in the new R560 driver release branch. Coming days after their NVIDIA 560 Windows driver, out this morning is the NVIDIA 560.28.03 beta Linux driver...

ChimeraOS 46 brings major upgrades and enhanced handheld support for GPD, AYANEO, OneXPlayer  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Following up on the previously noted proposal around Fedora Workstation 42 looking at adding opt-in user metrics, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now granted approval for this somewhat controversial feature...

It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too  MSN

Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces  The Register

Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces  The Register

As scheduled, LLVM Clang 19 was branched from mainline Git this morning and is now considered feature frozen ahead of its planned September release. LLVM Clang 20 in turn is now in development with the main Git branch...

We appear to be on the heels of the AMD ROCm 6.2 software release for advancing the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack with new features...

Greg Kroah-Hartman described the char/misc pull request for the Linux 6.11 merge window as having "just loads of new drivers and updates." Among the new drivers is beginning to enable support for the KEBA CP500 as the latest FPGA seeing upstream kernel support...

The BSDs unfortunately continue to lag behind Linux in their GPU driver support. The latest example of this is OpenBSD only days ago seeing initial support for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) merged for GPU-accelerated video playback on that BSD platform...

OpenBSD Now Supports VA-API Video Acceleration  Phoronix

The LoongArch CPU architecture changes were submitted and subsequently merged on Monday for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window. With the new kernel these Chinese processors support more kernel features for this MIPS-derived and RISC-V-inspired architecture...

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Features With Linux 6.11  Phoronix

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Features With Linux 6.11  Phoronix