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Related to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz for significantly improving the Mesa glReadPixels performance by more than 100%, the open-source driver developer at Valve has now enabled compute PBO blits within mainline Mesa for the AMD Radeon "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver...

Pocket Z project aims to build $99 Linux PCs that fit in your pocket  Liliputing

Linux community mourns loss of WiFi driver expert  Developer News

Red Hat Moves One Step Closer to In-Vehicle Linux Systems  WebProNews

Advancements in Arm64 Linux Support Signal a New Era of Compatibility  Smartphone Magazine

Llamafile has been one of the better new initiatives out of Mozilla in recent years. Llamafile makes it easy to conveniently distribute and run large language models as a single file while supporting both CPU and GPU execution and all-around making AI LLMs much more approachable for end-users. Out today is Llamafile 0.8.7 with more performance optimizations and new features...

Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86  The Register

Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86  The Register

Linux geeks cheer as Arm wrestles x86  The Register

Intel P-State Patches Further Tune Linux For Better Scheduling On Hybrid CPUs  Phoronix

A new set of patches are currently being tested for improving task scheduling and in turn performance for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. With the patch also mentioning systems that are hybrid but without SMT, this looks like it may be some early tuning as well for upcoming Intel Lunar Lake processors that lack Hyper Threading...

Flathub continues growing with over 2 billion downloads recorded  GamingOnLinux

Threat Actor Claiming a 0-day in Linux LPE Via GRUB bootloader  GBHackers

Deepin 23 is going all in on a Windows 11 look and feel - and it succeeds  ZDNet

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 23rd, 2024  9to5Linux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 23rd, 2024  9to5Linux

Using LM Studio to Run LLMs Easily, Locally and Privately  It's FOSS

Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland  Phoronix

With Ubuntu 24.10 due for release in October one of the expressed planned changes has been NVIDIA defaulting to using Wayland rather than X11 for the default desktop session. As of this past week the change is now in place for Ubuntu 24.10 daily users that will find Wayland-by-default when using the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver...

Just a friendly reminder that if you've been procrastinating in migrating past the once-great CentOS Linux 7, there is less than one week to go now until it's officially end-of-life...