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Ubuntu 24.04: This great new Linux distro isn't just fast - it's a fortress  ZDNet

GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support  9to5Linux

Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink's start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation...

Factorio devs detail their 'Linux adventures' in a new blog post  GamingOnLinux

After several years of the GNOME Foundation running at a deficit (loss), the GNOME Foundation is going to be driving a push for greater fundraising...

As mentioned following the AMD GFX90C target being added, the GCC 14 compiler code was branched from the main Git branch with release preparations for GCC 14 underway. A status report was just published outlining release plans for getting GCC 14.1 stable out around 7 May...

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup  The Register

As the last feature patch prior to the GCC 14 compiler code being branched today and GCC 15 opening up on the mainline codebase, AMD GFX90C support was merged for enabling GPU OpenMP device offloading to the numerous AMD SoCs/APUs with the GFX9/Vega graphics...

Following the big set of Xe DRM driver updates for Linux 6.10 and earlier Adaptive Snyc SDP, Lunar Lake display support, and more DG2 PCI IDs for i915 pulls sent in over weeks prior for this next kernel version, the drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted today for last minute Intel graphics driver feature changes aiming for Linux 6.10...

Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute  Phoronix

AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers continue being quite busy preparing for multiple new hardware IP...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Patches Enable SOC24 & MMHUB 4.1.x IP  Phoronix

The Servo web engine developers have enjoyed a busy April with a number of new features added to this Rust creation...

After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license...

Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License  Phoronix

Beginner-friendly Linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available for download  Notebookcheck.net

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BCC (BPF Compiler Collection) is a powerful set of appropriate tools and example files for creating resourceful kernel tracing and manipulation programs. It utilizes extended

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After installing the Fedora 40 server edition, you might want to host a website on your server. To do this, you need a reliable server

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” released with Linux 6.8, up to 12 years of support  CNX Software

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Virtual consoles are very important features of Linux, and they provide a system user a shell prompt to use the system in a non-graphical setup

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