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It's hard to believe we are already just down to a few days left before the release of Plasma 6.0 next week alongside KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear apps ported over to the Qt6 toolkit. KDE Plasma 6.0 is pretty much primed for release while already fixes are beginning for Plasma 6.0.1 as well as early feature work underway for Plasma 6.1...

GEEKOM A7 mini PC review – Part 3: Ubuntu 22.04 (and Ubuntu 24.04)  CNX Software

In time for weekend Linux gamers, Valve and their CodeWeavers partners today rolled out their first public beta of Proton 9.0 as their Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux with ease under the Steam client...

Wine 9.3 is out this Friday as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux...

How To Customize DNS With Systemd-Resolved on Linux  LinuxInsider

What is SSH and how do you use it? The secure shell basics you need to know  ZDNet

LXQt 2.0 Desktop Launches in April with New Applications Menu, Qt 6 Port  9to5Linux

A request for comments patch series was posted today for FAMFS, a new special purpose file-system proposal out of Micron for dealing with Fabric-Attached Memory (FAM) devices such as will become more common within the Compute Express Link (CXL) server space...

Discord Overlay for Linux v0.7.0 should improve idling and on battery power  GamingOnLinux

Intel's latest release of their Intel Extension for PyTorch "IPEX" now officially supports their consumer Arc A-Series Graphics hardware across Linux, Windows, and also WSL2...

Intel Extension For PyTorch Now Officially Supports Arc A-Series Graphics  Phoronix

NVIDIA today released their 550.54.14 driver, which is their first production-ready/stable driver version in the R550 series...

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Release Brings R550 Series Linux Driver To Stable  Phoronix

Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks  Yahoo! Voices

Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks  Tom's Hardware

KDE hopes its Slimbook V featuring an AMD 7840HS is enough to rival Windows  XDA Developers

While the Linux 6.8 kernel merge window has been over for several weeks now, due to a busy February of new hardware releases and lots of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking, I've been behind in writing up my Linux 6.8 feature recap. For those wanting a concise look at the many great changes coming with Linux 6.8 that will debut as stable in March, here's an overview of the interesting Linux 6.8 changes.

Linux 6.8 Features Excite With New Intel Xe Driver, Performance Optimizations & New Hardware  Phoronix

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Many Improvements  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 550.54.14 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Many Improvements  9to5Linux