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FreeBSD 14.0 is preparing for release in early November as a big update to this leading BSD operating system. It's going to be a great release and Friday's FreeBSD 14.0-RC2 milestone landed some last minute updates...

Back in September GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted how Linux terminal emulators have the potential of being much faster based on his experiments. While at the time he didn't plan to pursue it further, in the weeks since he's been making enhancements to GNOME's VTE code that is used by GNOME Console and other apps...

More Optimizations Made For Making GNOME/VTE Terminals Go ...  Phoronix

Thursday marked the 18th birthday of the Geany open-source text editor / lightweight integrated development environment (IDE) project. In celebrating Geany turning 18, the Geany 2.0 release was made available. Geany 2.0 continues to strive toward the project goal of being a fast and easy to use text editor for coding...

Geany 2.0 Lightweight IDE / Text Editor Released  Phoronix

Proton gets upgrades for TEKKEN 8, Burnout Paradise Remastered ...  GamingOnLinux

Peppermint Mini: A Lightweight Distro With All The Essentials  It's FOSS News

Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45%  Slashdot

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')  ZDNet

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')  ZDNet

AMD Wants To Know If You'd Like Ryzen AI Support On Linux  Phoronix

With the newest AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops there is "Ryzen AI" as a dedicated AI engine based on Xilinx IP to help accelerate machine learning with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. Sadly though this Ryzen AI with their new Zen 4 laptops is only supported under Microsoft Windows at this point. But it could change with sufficient customer interest...

Raptor Computing Systems as the company behind the open-source friendly, POWER-based Talos II server and Blackbird microATX desktop has continued leveraging POWER9 given the binary blobs and challenging state around POWER10. But looking ahead to next year it looks like they'll be debuting some new hardware platforms...

Mosa Lina is pure physics puzzle-platforming chaos  GamingOnLinux

DEF CON 31 – ElfMaster’s ‘Revolutionizing ELF Binary Patching With Shiva A JIT Binary Patching Sy...  Security Boulevard

DEF CON 31 - ElfMaster's 'Revolutionizing ELF Binary Patching With ...  Security Boulevard

As shown already the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U works out well on Linux and is very speedy as shown with that prior benchmarking on Linux 6.3, but for those moving to Linux 6.5 or newer the performance and power efficiency is even better. Like for those moving to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 with Linux 6.5, there are some nice performance gains to find with this laptop -- similar to the experience seen with various AMD Ryzen desktops on the new kernel.

System76 engineers working on their COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution continue to be quite busy working on this Rust-written desktop code...

COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland ...  Phoronix

Vulkan 1.3.269 released this morning with new extensions from Arm and NVIDIA...