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Systemd 256-rc1 is available this evening and it comes with many new features and improvements to existing features. It's a big one...

Ubuntu Linux update brings performance boosts, tool updates  InfoWorld

Slimbook Fedora 2 brings processor, memory, and graphics upgrades to this Linux laptop  Liliputing

If your interest didn't pique enough when the former Nouveau lead developer joined NVIDIA and sent out a big patch series for this originally-reverse-engineered, open-source NVIDIA kernel driver, here's another plot twist: another NVIDIA engineer opening a merge request adding to the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...

This year already marks ten years since the introduction of RHEL 7. While the Red Hat Enterprise Linux support period is typically 10 years, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 they have decided to extend that by up to four years with Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS)...

Red Hat Offering Up To 4 Years Extra Support For RHEL7  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' brings 12 years of Linux support for enterprise deployments  SDxCentral

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Noble Numbat, overhauls its installation and app experience  Ars Technica

Bazzite 3.0: updated gaming Linux OS polishes support for Steam Deck OLED, Legion GO, Asus ROG Ally among ...  Notebookcheck.net

As expected, the Wayland 1.23 Alpha release is now available as this next Wayland release looks to officially roll-out toward the end of May...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux is Now Available  How-To Geek

As part of my ongoing benchmarking of the newly-released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux distribution, today's focus is looking at the high-end Intel Core i9 14900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X desktops while comparing the performance across Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for dozens of workloads.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Intel Core i9 14900K: Ubuntu 22.04 vs. 23.10 vs. 24.04 Linux Performance  Phoronix

Ubuntu 22.04 vs 24.04: What Has Changed?  It's FOSS

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Review: Big Changes & Sleek User Experience  It's FOSS

Intel engineers have just released OpenVINO 2024.1, the newest feature release for this excellent open-source AI toolkit that continues expanding its features and capabilities particularly around Generative AI "GenAI" and Large Language Models (LLMs)...

Canonical releases Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat'  BetaNews

Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavors Are Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more. Today the Sovereign Tech Fund outlined their latest funding for advancing the open-source software ecosystem...