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Switching To Linux Full-Time: My Thoughts Two Months Later  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

The Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) updates for the Linux 6.9 merge window bring a mostly mundane assortment of driver patches and other routine changes. But there is a new driver for NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper superchip...

Linux 6.9 VFIO Updates Bring A New Driver For NVIDIA's Grace-Hopper Superchip  Phoronix

Proton Mail launches desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux  BetaNews

How to use the LFTP client to download files  TechTarget

Harnessing Incredible AI Compute Power Atop Open-Source Software: 8 x AMD MI300X Accelerators On Linux  Phoronix

A few days ago I had the chance to indulge on an incredible compute nirvana: eight AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators at my disposal for some albeit brief testing. Not only was it fantastic from the shear compute performance, but for Phoronix fans, all the more exciting knowing it's atop a fully open-source software stack from the kernel driver up through the various user-space libraries (well, sans the GPU microcode). This first encounter with the AMD MI300 series was eye-opening in seeing how far the ROCm software stack has come and the increased challenges for NVIDIA going forward with the rising competitiveness of AMD's hardware and software efforts.

AMD's HIP Ray-Tracing library "HIP RT" has been one of the few projects under the GPUOpen umbrella that starts off as closed-source software but then is eventually open-sourced... That happened now with the HIP ray-tracing code becoming publicly available...

How to share files across your network from these popular Linux GUIs  ZDNet

Proton Mail has released a desktop program for Windows and macOS, the Linux version is still in beta  Mezha.Media

How to share files across your network from these popular Linux GUIs  ZDNet

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai with SUSE has submitted all of the core sound updates and driver changes for the ongoing Linux 6.9 kernel merge window...

Intel & AMD Enjoy SoundWire Updates With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Proton Mail Desktop Client is Available for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

Sea of Thieves gets Easy Anti-Cheat - thankfully enabled for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

System76 Refreshes Its Adder WS Linux Laptop with an HX-Class 14th Gen Intel CPU  9to5Linux

Proton Launches Desktop Mail App for Mac, Windows, Linux  iClarified

System76 launches refreshed Adder WS Linux laptop with 14th Gen Intel CPU  BetaNews

Intel today is introducing the Core i9 14900KS as their newest "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to 6.2GHz clock frequencies...

Sunshine game streaming app for Moonlight v0.22.1 out with more Linux improvements  GamingOnLinux