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Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver "ANV" has reduced the driver start-up time by about half...

Intel Vulkan Driver Halves The Time Required For Startup  Phoronix

AudioThing Wurly, a hybrid vintage electric piano for mac, linux, win, and iOS  Synth Anatomy

VMware Desktop Hypervisors for Windows, Linux, and Mac  VMware

Kernel developer and consultant Johan Hovold spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a particular focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered Qualcomm SoC. Arm funded this Linaro effort and as a result the ThinkPad X13s enjoys pleasant upstream kernel support now. This Arm Linux laptop project has now concluded but sets a nice base for further ARM Linux laptop improvements moving forward...

The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support  Phoronix

Discord-Based Malware Attacking Orgs Linux Systems In India  CybersecurityNews

While for years there has been the Habana Labs AI accelerator driver within the mainline Linux kernel, this "accel" driver has been focused on just supporting training/inference across their products. Now being worked on for the mainline Linux kernel are upstreaming the Habana Labs network drivers that can be used for scaling out the AI workloads across multiple systems...

Intel To Upstream Habana Labs Network Drivers Into The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Being merged to Mesa 24.2 this week is a set of 12 patches that have been four months in the making for supporting the OpenGL/EGL fixed-rate compression extensions...

The first beta release of the Qt 6.8 toolkit is now available for testing with many new features...

The Evolution of Linux-Based Smart Home Operating Systems  ITPro Today

For those interested in running Linux on the Ayaneo Kun handheld gaming console alternative to Valve's Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally, among others, a display quirk has been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.10-rc4 release this weekend to fix the display handling...

Linux 6.10-rc4 To Fix Display For The Ayaneo Kun Gaming Handheld  Phoronix

Steam Client updated with improvements for Steam Deck, Linux, VR and Steam Input  GamingOnLinux

These Linux Tools Increased My Command-Line Productivity: Here’s How  How-To Geek

The post How to Install ‘IPFire’ Free Firewall Linux Distribution first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

IPFire is an open-source Linux distribution that works as a firewall, VPN gateway, proxy server, DHCP server, time server, caching

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FOSS Weekly #24.24: Pironman, VLC Tips, Amber Lang and 12 Years of It's FOSS  It's FOSS

World's most popular operating system threatened by new form of malware  TweakTown

Hypervisor Showdown: Performance of Leading Virtualization Solutions  StorageReview.com