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Intel Wildcat Lake "-march=wildcatlake" Added To GCC & LLVM Clang Compilers  Phoronix

In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while...

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...

Next-Gen Intel Nova Lake CPUs to feature Xe3P graphics – Linux Update Confirms  OC3D

How to Check System Uptime in Linux (5 Methods)  Beebom

Box86/box64  Hackaday

Factorio Running On Mobile  Hackaday

Understanding Bash: A Guide for Linux Administrators  TechRepublic

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This is the Linux distro you should use after Windows 10 support ends today  XDA

Immutable Linux delivers serious security - here are your 5 best options  ZDNET

5 ways the Linux nmap command can help keep your network secure  ZDNET

Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...

GStreamer 1.26.7 Improves Support for the NVIDIA Jetson AV1 Encoder  9to5Linux

Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects  theregister.com

AMD Engineer Proposes Runtime Toggling for Linux CPU Security Mitigations  WebProNews

There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy...

Windows 10 PC can't be upgraded? You have 5 options - and must act now  ZDNET