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My top 5 user-friendly GUI backup tools for the Linux desktop (and why you need one)  ZDNet

Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upstreamed...

Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor  Phoronix

GNOME 46 Arrives With Desktop Enhancements, Faster Files, and More  How-To Geek

The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality...

Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes  Phoronix

GNOME 46 Kathmandu: Elevating the Linux desktop environment with new features and enhancements  BetaNews

GNOME 46 is out. Here are all the improvements you need to know  ZDNet

Linux Supply Chain Validation Cheat Sheet  Security Boulevard

Linux Supply Chain Validation Cheat Sheet  Security Boulevard

The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

GNOME 46 "Kathmandu" Desktop Environment Released, Here's What's New  9to5Linux

GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” Desktop Environment Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE)...

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine  Phoronix

Not a fan of Windows 11 gaming portables? Linux-powered alternative to Steam Deck might be the answer to your ...  TechRadar

DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play compknent that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs...

DXVK 2.3.1 Brings More Efficient Shader Code Generation on NVIDIA GPUs  9to5Linux

A new Steam Deck OS is coming, and it could transform Valve's handheld  PCGamesN

In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler...