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How to Uninstall Chromium and Deal with Hidden Viruses  Private Internet Access

In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel...

More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Sparrow Hawk runs Linux on Renesas R-Car V4H SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

These free, open source Linux apps made expensive creative software harder to justify  Yahoo Tech

These free, open source Linux apps made expensive creative software harder to justify  How-To Geek

Microsoft Opens the Door to Azure Linux 4.0 Testing  Linuxiac

Thundercomm TurboX C7790 Android and Linux development kit features Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-7790 Edge AI SoC  CNX Software

NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code  Phoronix

Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape...

In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER...

Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM  Phoronix

KDE turns 30 this year - and they want your support  GamingOnLinux

EGLStreams was NVIDIA's original route to supporting Wayland with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Adoption was limited and driver vendors outside of NVIDIA didn't end up going with EGLStreams/EGLDevice. Thankfully, NVIDIA corrected course long ago with DMA-BUF, GBM, and KMS support that aligns with the rest of the ecosystem, and now that old code path is being removed from GNOME Mutter...

GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams  Phoronix

"A real shame": Linux's market share in Steam drops for a third straight month, giving more ground to Windows 11  Yahoo Tech

"A real shame": Linux's market share in Steam drops for a third straight month, giving more ground to Windows 11  Windows Central

6 easy ways I make Zorin OS even faster and more secure  ZDNET

These 4 package managers outlasted the Linux distros that created them  MakeUseOf

AI-Powered Worm Leverages Stolen Compute to Target Linux, Windows, and IoT Devices  gbhackers.com