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How to Repair a Corrupted USB Drive in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Yoohoo! There is a New Rust-Based GPU Driver for Linux in Development  It's FOSS News

Ubuntu and Tuxedo duke it out for Linux on Snapdragon X Elite laptops  PCWorld

The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10 Review  Phoronix

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these popular downstreams compared to RHEL 10.

KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support...

This Debian-based Linux distro is an overlooked and user-friendly gem  ZDNet

Space physics puzzler Voyager 2 adds Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Windows loses 400 million users as mobile, Linux, and Mac use grows  TechSpot

Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into problems if the Linux server has only 2TB of system RAM... But a new patch series was posted today in working to address this problem with the Linux kernel for high-end systems failing to hibernate. A similar issue is that when thawing the system the process can take nearly one hour due to the amount of memory...

AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues  Phoronix

Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS...

It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release  Phoronix

It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...

The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...

Linux GPU Configuration And Monitoring Tool (LACT) gets advanced profile management  GamingOnLinux

Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawn  GamingOnLinux

Relive the Golden Era: 5 Tools to Get Retro Feel on Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Foundation Strengthens Cloud Leadership  Open Source For You