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'There are no plans to drop support for SteamOS': The Finals devs commit to Steam Deck and Linux players despite new kernel-level anti-cheat  PC Gamer

LibreELEC Might Be the Best Linux Distro for Your Mini PC  How-To Geek

Linux Is Dropping Certain PCs, Here's How to Find Out If Yours Is Included  How-To Geek

Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24...

Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers  Phoronix

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...

This Tool Lets You Share Your Terminal Over the Web  How-To Geek

A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ. This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux...

Sent out this morning as part of this week's "locking/urgent" pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release. This latest performance regression in the Linux kernel is around the new Futex code merged this cycle with a big performance hit being observed in scheduler benchmarks...

Nearly one year after the merge request was first opened, back-ported now to the X.Org Server 21.1 stable branch are a number of GLAMOR 2D acceleration fixes around OpenGL ES 2.x as well as supporting OpenGL ES 3.x shaders for this generic 2D acceleration over OpenGL for the xorg-server and XWayland...

Intel software engineers continue ironing out their Linux support for Bartlett Lake...

Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code  Phoronix

(Part 1) Technical challenges of applying Linux to industrial equipment and Toshiba's longstanding efforts  global.toshiba

Sent out today by longtime Freedreno/MSM open-source Qualcomm GPU driver developer Robin Clark are the main set of MSM kernel graphics/display driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several exciting feature additions coming to this next kernel version for those relying on Qualcomm graphics capabilities...

Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X  Phoronix

Daisy Chain Of Hacks Lets New Arm Board Run Doom  Hackaday

4 reasons I use NixOS in WSL instead of Ubuntu or Fedora  XDA

6 reasons why I use NixOS over any other Linux distro  XDA

3 lessons I learned while using Linux as a Windows fanboy  MSN

I (almost) fixed this mini PC... by installing Linux  XDA