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openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP  Phoronix

Embark Studios' The Finals free-to-play first person shooter has proven quite popular since its release in early December. The Finals is a game powered by Unreal Engine 5 that has been running on Linux thanks to Valve's Steam Play (Proton + VKD3D-Proton). With the latest Mesa driver activity, Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with their open-source driver can now handle this popular game...

"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU  Phoronix

Merged last week to the mainline kernel were all of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem driver updates for the Linux 6.8 cycle, which includes introducing the Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO driver...

Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce Driver Merged For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Tom Stellard announced plans this past week for releasing the LLVM 18 compiler stack in early March...

Asahi Linux improves battery life and graphics features on Apple Silicon Macs  Notebookcheck.net

How to change Proton version on Steam Deck  Dexerto

Linux Mint 21.3 "Virginia" with Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop available for download  Notebookcheck.net

How to Properly Use Privileges in Linux | by Arton Demaku | Jan, 2024  Medium

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 14th, 2024  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms  The Register

KDE e.V. as the German legal organization behind the KDE project is hiring an employee for a new project to promote environmentally-sustainable software and long-term hardware use...

As we called out in our previous post on the TrustRadius Best Of 2023 Awards, customer feedback is a crucial piece of how Red Hat evolves and expands our work in enterprise IT, from the hybrid cloud to the edge and everything in between. We’re pleased to highlight that we’ve achieved another milestone with a peer review site partner, G2, which has recognized Red Hat as a leader for its Winter 2024 Reports! G2’s Winter 2024 Reports provide insights and market data based on user reviews and interactions on the platform, specifically highlighting top-performing products. The reports are hel

Matt Hicks has been a Red Hatter since 2006. In that time he’s seen the market for enterprise software evolve from one obsessed with complex closed source solutions, to one more focused on services, on-demand software development tools, open source and global scale. Sitting atop that current pile of innovative technologies are things like AI and quantum computing.Today, Hicks is Red Hat’s president and CEO, and in that position, he’s grappling with piloting the ship through narrow straits of technological promise. Which waters is he intending to navigate? Which technological river will b

Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code that was causing his Linux kernel builds to be as twice as long as with previous kernels. An AMD Linux engineer was able to reproduce the regression and with upstream developers there is now a believed fix for this issue in the latest scheduler code...

C++ In The Linux Kernel?  iProgrammer

People Should Have Learned the Computer Through Linux  Medium

11 Best Econometric and Statistical Software for Linux  Technology News, Tutorials and Apps Review

All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...