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When hearing of "Orange Pi Neo" this weekend from sources at FOSDEM 2024, I just assumed it was yet another Orange Pi single board computer... But then to hear it's a handheld game console from Orange Pi again gives off the impression of some low-power ARM device. It turns out though that the Orange Pi Neo is a forthcoming AMD Ryzen powered handheld gaming console...

Orange Pi Neo Coming As A Ryzen 7 + Linux Powered Handheld Device  Phoronix

Windows version of the venerable Linux “sudo” command shows up in preview build  Ars Technica

Windows 11 may soon receive the sudo command as featured in macOS and Linux  XDA Developers

The System76 Serval WS Linux Laptop Now Has a 14th Gen Intel CPU  How-To Geek

Google is announcing today they are contributing $1M USD to the Rust Foundation to focus on enhancing interoperability between the C++ and Rust programming languages...

AMD Ryzen 5 8600G Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Last week the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series processors with Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA3 graphics became available in retail channels. The initial launch-day Linux testing was focused on the Ryzen 7 8700G processor, which showed great uplift for the integrated graphics over the Ryzen 5000G series with Vega/GFX9 graphics and the Ryzen 7000 series with their cut-down RDNA2 integrated graphics. In today's article the AMD Ryzen 5 8600G is the focus of the Linux testing along with an expanded set of comparison processors re-tested.

How to Use the dig Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Ahead of any processors being released with support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and Advanced Vector Extensions 10 (AVX10), Intel's in-house Clear Linux distribution is already beginning to roll-out binaries compiled for APX+AVX10 use...

Intel Begins Rolling Out APX & AV10 Binaries For Their Linux Distribution  Phoronix

Secure software development insights from The Linux Foundation  App Developer Magazine

The 5 Best Linux Gaming Distros in 2024  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Evaluate Expressions in Linux With expr  How-To Geek

Super Pocket Taito Edition Review - Licensed Linux Retro-gaming on a Budget  GamingOnLinux

While the performance of LLVM/Clang is on-par with GCC these days on both x86_64 and AArch64 and the C/C++ support is very robust compared to many years ago, most Linux distributions continue using the GCC compiler and GNU toolchain by default. OpenMandriva is a well known Linux distribution that for several years has been a Clang-built Linux distribution while for three years now the Chimera Linux distribution has also been relying exclusively on an LLVM toolchain...

LLVM/Clang Can Work Fine As A GCC Replacement For Linux Distributions  Phoronix

Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld to come with Manjaro Linux  GamingOnLinux

With PipeWire 1.0 having been released toward the end of last year and is now commonly used by Linux distributions out-of-the-box for managing audio/video streams, you may be wondering about the future plans for this open-source software from Red Hat. Well, Wim Taymans was at FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels and shared some of the plans ahead for PipeWire...

PipeWire To Work On Vulkan Converters & Processing Filters  Phoronix