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Mesa 26.0.1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter's Mesa 26.0 series. Besides the usual bug fixing, Mesa 26.0.1 is more pressing than usual since it contains a security fix for possible out-of-bounds memory access in WebGPU contexts from web browsers...

systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported  Phoronix

The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new "mstack" feature...

Nvidia is hiring Linux gaming experts  PCWorld

Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

While there are many great Linux 7.0 features with that still-young development cycle, looking ahead to Linux 7.1 this summer there's an interesting feature on track: cgroup sub-scheduler support for sched_ext...

These 4 TUI apps will convince you to actually use your Linux terminal  How-To Geek

Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat)  It's FOSS

The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is the EPYC 4005 series AM5 server processors that launched last year. On the embedded side is also the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. AMD has now filled the void between with the long-awaited EPYC 8005 series...

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 "Sorano" Series  Phoronix

NVIDIA starts listing jobs for Linux gaming with Valve's Proton in mind  Windows Central

PCLinuxOS Makes Comeback for Windows Switchers  findarticles.com

Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others  Phoronix

The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors...

Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit...

The once beloved PCLinuxOS is back - and it's still a great Windows escape  ZDNET

'Linux is going to prime time for PCs. This is just a clue': Nvidia looks set to make its GPU drivers better in Linux  TechRadar

Why Ubuntu is a frustrating choice for desktops but great for laptops  How-To Geek

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'  theregister.com

Nvidia hiring for engineers to work on Linux/Arm gaming projects  PC Gamer