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Merged overnight to Mesa 24.0 is the Rust-written NAK compiler back-end for the Nouveau Gallium3D driver and NVK Vulkan driver...

Rust-Written NAK Compiler Merged For Nouveau/NVK In Mesa 24.0  Phoronix

Blender 4.0 Released with Support for AMD RDNA2 and RDNA3 APUs, Node Tools  9to5Linux

KeeperFX open-source remake and expansion of Dungeon Keeper ...  GamingOnLinux

After a one week delay, Blender 4.0 is now available as the latest major update to this leading open-source and cross platform 3D modeling software...

Linux Systems Administrator - Remote Remote  IT-Online

Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D ...  Phoronix

With newly-merged optimizations to Mesa 24.0-devel, the Intel shader compiler back-end is seeing its scheduling code execute around 30% faster. This big speed-up comes due to overhauling how they store pass information and reusing that for multiple pre-RA scheduling modes...

OBS Studio 30.0: Linux Edition - No More Ubuntu 20.04, Yes to AV1  It's FOSS News

SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust  The Register

Linux announces plans to form High Performance Software ...  New Electronics

AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series Processors Review  Phoronix

Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android  OMG! Ubuntu!

File Sharing on Linux Using NFS and Samba  Linux Journal

AMD is announcing this morning in Bavaria (SPS 23 in Nürnberg) the Ryzen Embedded 7000 series processors, the latest addition to the Zen 4 family. The Ryzen Embedded 7000 Series are socketed CPUs intended for various embedded and edge applications in the 60~105 Watt space.

Linux for HPC  Electronics Weekly

Patches Posted For Removing The SLAB Allocator From The Linux ...  Phoronix

Since the Linux 6.5 kernel this summer the SLAB allocator has been officially deprecated. This followed the demise of SLOB and trying to get all Linux users over to the SLUB allocator. Patches have now been posted for stripping out the SLAB allocator for good from the mainline kernel...

Firefox Is Going To Try And Ship With Wayland Enabled By Default  Phoronix

Guardrails have been in place where the Firefox browser has enabled Wayland by default (when running on recent GTK versions) but as of today that code has been removed... Firefox will try to move forward with stable releases where Wayland will ship by default!..