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Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, and Peppermint OS move to Debian 13  theregister.com

Merged today to the Tinygrad deep learning framework is a Mesa NIR back-end to allow targeting that common intermediate representation used by these open-source Linux GPU drivers. Initially supported with this Tinygrad NIR back-end is the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" with its Rust-based NAK compiler as well as the CPU-based LLVMpipe driver...

Commodore Tells Windows 10 Users Shunned By Microsoft To Join Its Linux Sanctuary  HotHardware

LMDE 7 "Gigi" Released: Linux Mint's Debian-Based Alternative Gets Major Upgrade  It's FOSS News

AMD's HIP-RT is used by the Blender 3D modeling software for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing on Radeon GPUs. For Blender 5.0 the AMD HIP-RT support is expected to be declared "stable" but will not be enabled by default until Blender 5.1...

Zorin OS 18 released with advanced window tiling, improved theme, and more  gHacks Technology News

Zorin OS 18 Released Just in Time for Windows 10 EOL  It's FOSS News

I found the easiest way to transfer files to and from my Linux PC - and it's so fast  ZDNET

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding  GamingOnLinux

Ready to ditch your Windows PC? I highly recommend this mini PC that's optimized for Linux  ZDNET

Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.'  Yahoo! Tech

Commodore needles Microsoft over end of Windows 10, tries to lure disgruntled users to its Linux-based OS Vision 3.0 — 'Microsoft may be leaving you behind. We Won't.'  Tom's Hardware

While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024, only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target...

Intel Wildcat Lake "-march=wildcatlake" Added To GCC & LLVM Clang Compilers  Phoronix

In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while...

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...

Next-Gen Intel Nova Lake CPUs to feature Xe3P graphics – Linux Update Confirms  OC3D

How to Check System Uptime in Linux (5 Methods)  Beebom

Box86/box64  Hackaday