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WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering...

Fraunhofer on Tuesday released their latest feature update to the Versatile Video Encoder for open-source H.266/VVC encoding...

Linux Systems Support Engineer - South Africa - Centurion  Bizcommunity.com

Steam users redeemed over $80 million in physical wallet cards in December 2023  GamingOnLinux

What is sudo for Windows, and how do you use it?  Android Authority

Mesa 24.1 Git has landed the initial infrastructure for allowing drivers to choose to using Zink instead for OpenGL via this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. The motivating factor for this latest Mesa work is for using Zink atop the NVK Vulkan driver for newer NVIDIA GPUs...

System76 are giving their Linux laptops a big refresh  GamingOnLinux

When it comes to today's complex RGB lighting for PC peripherals and the like it's mostly been left up to user-space. With most RGB devices interfacing via USB, it's been up to Linux user-space projects like OpenRGB, OpenRazer, etc, to implement their RGB lighting controls as needed. But as RGB lighting use continues to grow in the PC space for better or worse, there's an increasing need for a kernel API to handle complex RGB devices. Such an API is currently being devised...

A Linux Kernel API For Today's Complex RGB Devices Is Being Devised  Phoronix

Arkane Linux: This 'Nix-worthy' Arch-based Immutable Distro Shows Potential  It's FOSS News

GNOME 46 beta released • The Register  The Register

GNOME 46 beta has more tweaks than a coffee shop  The Register

New Mingo Malware Attacking Linux Redis Servers To Mine Cryptocurrency  GBHackers

The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs  The Register

The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs  The Register

As many enthusiasts wait to hear from AMD more broadly supporting ROCm in an official capacity across consumer Radeon GPUs and/or hearing about better supporting more Linux distributions outside of the major enterprise Linux distributions, today AMD announced a new medium for their communications with the community: the "New AMD ROCm Software Blog Platform" will be rolling out...

Help Shape the Future of Kubuntu and Win Awesome Prizes  9to5Linux

The Linux Foundation Releases Conference Schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2024  PR Newswire

The Linux Foundation Releases Conference Schedule for Open Source Summit North America 2024  Morningstar

How to Exit Vim: A Beginner's Guide  Built In