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Thanks to Valve's open-source developers, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has landed experimental support for transfer queues for facilitating SDMA image copies...

System76's New Linux Workstation Has Updated AMD Threadripper CPUs  How-To Geek

System76 Thelio Ramps Up AI & Creator Performance With New AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs  Phoronix

System76 has opted to offer new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors in their Thelio Major desktop line-up to provide for greater performance from AI and creator workloads to all common code compilation and other tasks leveraging many CPU cores/threads. The new System76 Thelio Major powered by Zen 4 Threadripper is being shown off this week at CES 2024 in Las Vegas at AMD's booth. A review on the new Thelio Major workstation will also be forthcoming on Phoronix...

7 Ways to Append Text to a File on Linux  How-To Geek

Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages  GamingOnLinux

MESA “RADV” Vulkan Driver To Recieve Performance Optimizations For AMD FSR 3 & VKD3D-Proton  Wccftech

Embedded Linux IoT Security: Defending Against Cyber Threats  Security Boulevard

Attackers Targeting Poorly Managed Linux SSH Servers  Security Boulevard

GE-Proton 8-26 and 8-27 released with various game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

AMD makes heavy use of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by their graphics drivers and compute stack while the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has to a lesser extent supported AMD graphics targets too in the context of GPU compute / OpenMP device offloading. That AMD Radeon/Instinct support for GCC has been carried out over the years by Mentor Graphics and other stakeholders. The latest on the AMD GPU expedition for GCC is that the upcoming GCC 14 compiler will finally be supporting AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics hardware...

Linux 6.8 HID: Steam Controller Driver Fixes From SteamOS, Nintendo NSO Controller Support  Phoronix

The HID driver updates for Linux 6.8 include some useful additions primarily for Linux gamers or those otherwise making use of modern game controllers for other input purposes...

Ahead of the planned release at the start of February, the release candidate of LibreOffice 24.2 is now available for this leading free software office suite to rival Microsoft Office predominantly on Linux systems as well as other platforms...

LibreOffice 24.2 RC1 Free Software Office Suite Released  Phoronix

Intel engineer and longtime Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki on Monday sent out all the PM updates for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...

Linux 6.8 Power Management Prepares For Upcoming Intel Server Processors  Phoronix

Upgrade Alert! Solus Linux 4.5 Adds New Calamares Installer and XFCE Flavor  It's FOSS News

How to add song recognition to the Linux desktop  ZDNet

A Nifty Way To Access Linux Memory/RAM Information  Phoronix