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Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code  Phoronix

KDE Gear 24.12 Officially Released, Finally Ports Dolphin to Mobile Devices  9to5Linux

The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...

Mastering Linux Regex: A Comprehensive Guide | by Siddharth Singh | Dec, 2024  Medium

6 Open-Source Tools That are Available Only on Windows, not on Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Foundation launches LF India to boost open source innovation  DATAQUEST

Linus Torvalds took to reverting some code tonight within the mainline Linux kernel that inadvertently had broken support having filenames with ❤️ and other special Unicode characters in filenames when on file-systems with case-folding (optional case insensitive file/folder name) support...

Linux Fixes Regression That Broke File Names With ❤️ & Other Special Characters  Phoronix

While we are awaiting the release of OpenZFS 2.3 that has been seeing release candidates since early October, OpenZFS 2.2.7 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Proton 9.0-4 is out now bringing big compatibility improvements for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 9.0-4 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running an incredible number of modern Windows games on Linux...

Proton 9.0-4 Released To Improve More Windows Games On Linux  Phoronix

Linux Foundation launches LF India to enhance open source collaboration  SDxCentral

The Linux Concept Journey — Xen Hypervisor | by Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D. | Dec, 2024  Medium

Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration  TechCrunch

Linux 6.13 Delivering Some Incremental Gains With AMD EPYC 9575F Performance  Phoronix

With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel one of the biggest features for those using new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors is using the AMD P-State driver by default for servers/motherboards with ACPI CPPC support enabled. But even for platforms without that where ACPI CPUFreq remains the default, the Linux 6.13 kernel is still showing some nice incremental uplift at large on these new AMD server processors. Here are some Linux 6.11 vs. 6.12 vs. 6.13 Git kernel benchmarks using an AMD EPYC 9575F 64-core server.