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The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on the latest batch of Fedora 44 change proposals as they work toward nearing the end of feature work for this spring update to Fedora Linux. Plus some early changes for Fedora 45 have also been granted...

Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved  Phoronix

65% more people are gaming on Linux compared to a year ago, and it's not just Steam Deck users  PCGamesN

China-made Loongson 12-core chip is approximately three times slower than six-core Ryzen 5 9600X — 3B6000 hampered by low clock speeds in Linux benchmarks  Tom's Hardware

In time for next month's GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to the screen-casting API and DevKit...

Best intel hd graphics linux Free Shipping Soluci n a los parpadeos glitches con Intel HD Graphics en Linux al grabar el escritorio Arch  Through The Fence Baseball

System76 Releases COSMIC 1.0.5 with New Option to Show Battery Percentage  9to5Linux

This Rust-powered tool makes Linux search effortless  How-To Geek

Microsoft Prioritizes Windows 11 Performance Fixes Amid Linux Growth  Technobezz

I tried the oldest Linux distro still standing, and it was a total reality check  How-To Geek

NVIDIA launches a beta GeForce Now app for Linux with 5K 120 FPS cloud gaming  Technobezz

Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance & Power Efficiency With Core Ultra X7 358H Benchmarks  Phoronix

For those that have been very eager to hear about the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" performance on Linux, today's the day! Last Thursday the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Evo laptop arrived that is powered by the Core Ultra X7 358H. Here is a look at how that Intel Core Ultra X7 358H competes for performance and power efficiency against a wide range of other laptops on an up-to-date Linux software stack in with around 300 benchmarks.

Windows 11 May Introduce a Linux-like Feature for its Power Users  It's FOSS

Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem's Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to replace TCP with the SMC protocol in-place as a transparent replacement. Except for the next kernel cycle it's set to be reverted after realizing it's "fundamentally broken."..

OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust...

Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver...

Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory  GamingOnLinux

The X.Org Foundation has announced that this year's X.Org Developers Conference will be taking place in Toronto, Canada and hosted by Arm...

A Pillar of the Linux Kernel: Greg Kroah-Hartman Honored with European Open Source Award  Linux Journal