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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

The Linux Concept Journey — Loadable Kernel Module (LKM)  Medium

16-inch KDE Slimbook V Linux laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS up for pre-orders starting at €999  Notebookcheck.net

Sent in overnight was this week's batch of DRM "fixes" for Linux 6.8 that included some mostly minor fixes plus a few notable but small patches to Nouveau, the upstream open-source NVIDIA DRM/KMS kernel driver...

Nouveau Driver Squeezes In Some Last Minute Minor Additions For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app  GamingOnLinux

Nephio R2 pushes open-source cloud-native network automation  SDxCentral

Kubuntu Focus M2 Linux laptop now comes with a Core i9-14900HX processor and NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics  Liliputing

The Simple DirectMedia Library that is commonly used as an abstraction layer by cross-platform games and other software is now introducing a Vulkan renderer with SDL3...

I built a cheap DIY NAS server and saved $100s  Android Authority

As a follow-up to the news of Mesa looking at enabling Zink by default as part of the drivers to build out-of-the-box, that change has now been merged. Additionally, the D3D12 Mesa driver that sees regular contributions by Microsoft engineers is also now being compiled by default when running on Windows...

NetworkManager 1.46 was released on Thursday as the newest stable update to this software commonly used for managing Linux wired and wireless network connections from the Linux desktop as well as from command-line environments via the nmcli utility...

NetworkManager 1.46 Can Now Manage Ethtool EEE Settings, IPv4 DAD Default & 2FA VPNs  Phoronix

Driving the Future: Linux Foundation and AECC Unite to Revolutionize Connected Vehicle Ecosystem  BNN Breaking

It's been almost exactly one month since the release of AMDVLK 2024.Q1.1 and today that's been succeded by AMDVLK 2024.Q1.2 that brings a number of new Vulkan extensions plus some performance tuning...

Revolutionizing Virtual Environments: The Future of Streamlined Linux Distributions  BNN Breaking

A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs  The Register

Warp: Rust-based Terminal With Built-in AI is Now Available for Linux Also!  It's FOSS News