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Valve’s new Steam Machine is a gut punch to Microsoft, Xbox, and Windows  OC3D

For next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver will present OpenGL mesh shaders support. It's been a long journey from the GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension being crafted and merged to wiring up the Mesa driver support while now it's in place for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

The Linux kernel's port to the DEC Alpha processors remains alive over 30 years after these processors first appeared...

Linux Has Another Maintainer Now For Its DEC Alpha Port  Phoronix

Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX...

Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years...

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone...

Valve’s New Steam Machine Runs on Linux — But Don’t Expect To Play Fortnite, CoD, or Battlefield 6 on It  Tech4Gamers

'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 arrives  theregister.com

Valve’s Linux console takes aim at Microsoft’s gaming empire  TechCentral

MX Linux 25 ‘Infinity’ Arrives: Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ Base, Modern Tools & A Fresh Installer  Linux Journal

SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 Patch: Stability Boosts, AMD Link Fixes, and Linux Memory Leak Resolved  Twisted Voxel

Sprout: Open-source bootloader built for speed and security  Help Net Security

FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Two ways to remove a directory in Linux - plus a bonus method for extra security  ZDNET

Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...

Kaspersky Brings Its Antivirus Software to Linux Desktops  OMG! Ubuntu

Kaspersky Brings Its Antivirus Software to Linux Desktops  OMG! Ubuntu

AAC audio: Kdenlive beats DaVinci Resolve (Studio) on Linux... by Allan Tépper - ProVideo Coalition  ProVideo Coalition

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