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11 Terminal File Managers to Explore on your Linux System  It's FOSS

Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today... Mesa 24.3 is now 11.6k lines of code lighter after removing support for the OpenMAX (OMX) API that was implemented as a Gallium3D state tracker long ago and hasn't seen any activity in recent years and the upstream OpenMAX standards work halted more than one decade ago...

OneFileLinux: Not so much a distro as a pointer  The Register

OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition  The Register

Last month I wrote about Intel Linux engineers working on a new Efficiency Latency Control feature for their uncore driver. This ELC option allows for adjusting the behavior of the Intel uncore for efficiency versus latency characteristics. Those Intel ELC patches to the TPMI uncore driver are now queued up for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle...

Excitement is building that the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support might finally be ready for the mainline kernel as soon as the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. It will be interesting to see if that long-awaited day finally comes this month but recently noted patches have now been queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/rt" branch ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window...

Latest "sched/rt" Commits Point To PREEMPT_RT Potentially Being Ready For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Linux Distribution deepin 23 Officially Released  TechBullion

The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS  GamingOnLinux

Partnering for Security: Qualys Solutions for Microsoft Azure Linux in AKS  Qualys

5 best Linux distributions for gamers in 2024  ZDNet

New Retroid Pocket gaming handhelds officially support Linux  Boing Boing

EmuDeck 2.3 Beta brings a new unified UI and multi language support  GamingOnLinux

With the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server that's in the lab for a few weeks for reviewing the AmpereOne A192-32X and delivering the first independent benchmarks of the AmpereOne 192-core AArch64 server processor, the AmpereOne benchmarks to date have been comparing to other Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server platforms. But if looking up to the cloud is the closest AArch64 server competition to AmpereOne there is: Amazon's Graviton4. In today's article ia showdown looking at how AmpereOne and AWS Graviton4 compete at 192 cores for ARM 64-bit server performance.

Redox OS 0.9 has been released today as a big update to this from-scratch Rust-written open-source operating system...

Redox OS 0.9 Brings COSMIC Apps, Better Performance & Improved Linux App Compatibility  Phoronix

Rhino Linux's latest release makes it the Swiss Army knife of Linux distributions  ZDNet

Red Hat rolls out RHEL AI: A tool for enterprises to consider?  TechHQ

NonSteamLaunchers v3.9.4 gets save backups using Ludusavi  GamingOnLinux

Earlier this summer KDE began soliciting ideas for what their goals should be over the next 2~3 years. This weekend at their annual Akademy KDE developer conference their next round of goals were solidified...