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In addition to old and unmaintained Ethernet driver code set for removal, there is an effort underway to clear out some obsolete and orphaned WiFi drivers from the Linux kernel...

Numeric operations on Linux  Network World

Numeric operations on Linux  Network World

Canonical continues investing in Mir as their Wayland compositor and set of platform abstraction interfaces to make it easier for IoT and other "smart" devices to run atop Ubuntu Core. Most recently the Mir developers have been working to partially re-architect their graphics platform handling to better handle multiple GPU/display devices...

Ahead of the official planned announcement for Tuesday, the Mozilla Firefox 119.0 release binaries have been published for this monthly feature update...

Firefox 119 Available With Improved Firefox View, Expanded PDF ...  Phoronix

Ubuntu's Mir Working On Hybrid Graphics / Multi-GPU Support  Phoronix

Mozilla Firefox 119 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Intel Continues To Demonstrate The Importance Of Software Optimizations: Clear Linux + Xeon Max Benchmarks  Phoronix

While the recently released Ubuntu 23.10 is bringing some performance improvements to Intel Xeon Max / Sapphire Rapids, Ubuntu Linux still isn't delivering the best possible out-of-the-box server performance. For that Intel continues to show the importance of software optimizations with the likes of their in-house Clear Linux platform as well as the likes of CentOS Stream having more sensible defaults. Here is a look at the Intel Xeon Max 9480 performance across Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 23.10, CentOS Stream 9, Fedora Server 39, and Clear Linux 40130.

AMD Asks: Do You Need Ryzen AI Support in Linux?  Tom's Hardware

Kubuntu 23.10 strikes a perfect balance of form and function  ZDNet

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Anodyne Remastered is out now with Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

While most hardware vendors are relying on LLVM when it comes to offloading compute work to GPUs, AI accelerators, FPGAs, and similar heterogeneous compute environments, right now each vendor is basically creating their own LLVM offloading run-time among a lot of other duplicated -- and often downstream only -- code. The new "llvm/offload" project hopes to lead to better collaboration in this area...

LLVM Looking To Better Collaborate Around Common AI/GPU ...  Phoronix

Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra gets a performance boost on Linux ...  GamingOnLinux

Following an FCV optimization for the latest Intel graphics hardware, ASTC LDR emulation, some still-pending Vulkan sparse support for ANV atop the existing i915 driver, and other recent Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver optimizations, another optimization was just merged into Mesa 23.3...

Proton update fixes Tekken 8 on Steam Deck & weird Cyberpunk ...  Dexerto

Mortisomem is a horror-adventure based in early 20th century Brazil  GamingOnLinux