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Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library...

Vulkan 1.3.293 released on Friday as the newest specification for this industry standard graphics and compute API. In addition to a handful of fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.3.293 introduces a new NVIDIA vendor extension...

How to Make Your Linux Laptop More Secure in 7 Steps  How-To Geek

Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GNOME-Session code have also seen the ability added to compile without X11 support...

Archinstall is the wonderful command-line driven installer that was introduced to the Arch Linux ISOs three years ago for making it quicker and easier to get a customized Arch Linux installation. Out today is Archinstall 2.8.2 to further refine that experience...

Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

How to Access Linux Ext4 partitions in Windows using WSL (great for reading Raspberry Pi microSD cards)  Tom's Hardware

Archinstall 2.8.2 Arch Linux Installer Speeds Up Mirror Loading and Download  9to5Linux

Deepin 23-based ExTiX 24.8 live Linux launches with Synaptic Package Manager and Google Chrome in tow  Notebookcheck.net

Goodbye Windows 11, hello Linux: Discover how ExTiX Deepin 24.8 can free your computer from Microsoft  BetaNews

How to Create Your First Linux Bash Script  The New Stack

10 Linux keyboard shortcuts I depend on for maximum efficiency  ZDNet

AMD Linux engineers are preparing the kernel for Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) as a feature for AMD EPYC server processors. Smart Data Cache Injection is a nifty new feature that allows for direct insertion of data from I/O devices into the CPU's L2/L3 cache...

AMD Preparing Linux For Smart Data Cache Injection With "Upcoming" CPUs  Phoronix

Deepin 23 launches with atomic updates and support for more CPU architectures  Notebookcheck.net

Mesa 24.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Defaults to New Shader Cache  9to5Linux

shapez 2 is an absurdly great and accessible factory-building game out now  GamingOnLinux

With all of my AMD Ryzen 9900X and 9950X Linux benchmarking and Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X reviews as well, many have wondered if AMD Zen 5 is just really great on Linux, if Windows 11 is in particularly poor shape for these new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, if it's just the different/diverse benchmarks being run, or simply why are these new desktop CPUs running so well on Linux but less so with Windows?

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu desktop provided an update around recent efforts on Ubuntu 24.10...