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It was just one month ago that open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso was beginning work on reverse-engineering and writing a Rockchip NPU driver following his work on the Vivante NPU IP open-source driver support. He quickly began seeing the driver working and with very viable performance and now today he's shared another update on this Rockchip open-source NPU driver effort...

Overnight Intel released their oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 release for this media stack component to their oneAPI software collection...

Get Dark Mode in VLC on Ubuntu and Other Linux  It's FOSS

Why financial infrastructure needs to be open-source — Hyperledger  Cointelegraph

Team Fortress 2 64bit support released, plus Vulkan for Linux via DXVK  GamingOnLinux

How to Install PIA VPN on Linux in 3 Different Ways  Privacy News Online

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Linux Kernel 6.7 EOL: What Users Need to Know  Security Boulevard

How to Kill a Process in Linux: Best Commands to Use  Built In

gprofng: Latest updates and development  Oracle

After not being ready in time for this week's early release target date, it's now been determined today that Fedora 40 is ready for release next week...

Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week  Phoronix

Ubuntu Studio in new LTS beta; still the easiest creative Linux distro - CDM Create Digital Music  Create Digital Music

6 features I wish MacOS would copy from Linux  ZDNet

Changwoo Min with Igalia presented yesterday at Open-Source Summit North America on optimizing the kernel's scheduler for Linux gaming. Of course, the motivation is around Valve's Steam Deck but for Linux gaming at large to benefit too from this scheduler work to ideally yield less stuttering during gameplay...

Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype  ZDNet

Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS  Tom's Hardware

Clonezilla Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux 6.7  9to5Linux

With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop up against a fully-updated Microsoft Windows 11 installation.