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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

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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

The Linux Foundation Announces Schedule for Open Source Summit Europe 2024  PR Newswire

World's first RISC-V laptop preloaded with Ubuntu  The Register

World's first RISC-V laptop with Ubuntu preloaded touts AI smarts and octa-core chip  The Register

This Linux distro could be the solution for anyone jumping ship from Windows  MSN

Hacking Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to Penetration Testing with Kali Linux  Linux Journal

OIN expands Linux patent protection yet again (but not to AI)  ZDNet

Here's how an exciting message from a NVIDIA engineer that just hit the mailing list begins: "NVIDIA has been exploring ways to better support the effort for an upstream kernel mode driver for GPUs that are capable of running GSP-RM firmware, since the introduction to Nova."..