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Vulkan 1.3.284 was published on Monday with only a few changes but bearing one notable new extension...

Switch to Linux Lite 7.0 from Windows 11  BetaNews

AMD engineers posted a new set of Linux driver patches on Tuesday that "addresses critical issues and enhances performance settings for CPUs with heterogeneous core types" while using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

Running AI Locally Using Ollama on Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

Linux utility Neofetch: Development now officially discontinued, what alternatives are available?  Notebookcheck.net

Linux can run on only 4MB of SRAM — Azure Sphere and SudoMaker's X1501 Pico show off the extremes of Linux's ...  Tom's Hardware

In addition to approving -O3 optimized Python builds, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESC)) this week unanimously approved a Fedora 41 change proposal for making RPM package builds more reproducible...

Over the past year there's been much work happening within the Linux kernel's sysctl code for clearing up ~64 bytes of bloat per array throughout the kernel by dropping the last sysctl "sentinel" entry at the end of each array. This also helps in reducing the build time of the kernel and is a nice improvement. With Linux 6.10, the sysctl sentinel clearing throughout different subsystems is set to happen...

Linux 6.10 Goes Ahead In Removing Sysctl Sentinel Bloat  Phoronix

For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it's now possible to selectively toggle the feature on a per-CPU core basis...

AMD Core Performance Boost For Linux Getting Per-CPU Core Controls  Phoronix

SteamVR Beta gets an SDL fix for Fedora Linux fans  GamingOnLinux

SteamVR Beta gets an SDL fix for Fedora fans  GamingOnLinux

GCC 14.1 has been released today as the first stable compiler release in the GCC 14 series. GCC 14.1 brings one year worth of improvements to this open-source compiler from new CPU support and new ISA extensions to new C/C++ language features, static analyzer improvements, new AMD GPU support, and many other additions...

Playtron give a bit more detail on the Linux-based PlaytronOS and their plans  GamingOnLinux

First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL  The Register

Linux Lite 7.0 Is Now Available for Testing, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Xfce 4.18  9to5Linux

Compressing files using the zip command on Linux  Network World

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From Comparison to Choice: kpatch vs Ksplice and the Advantages of Switching to KernelCare  Security Boulevard