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The 9 Best Audio Editors for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5  Phoronix

The Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable this weekend barring any last minute issues from being raised. One of the notable changes with this new kernel version is Linux now defaulting to the AMD P-State "EPP" active driver configuration for modern Ryzen systems rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver default. In some cases this can mean better performance but particularly should yield a nice improvement to the power efficiency of Ryzen Zen 2 and newer platforms, especially laptops and other portable Linux systems like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally. I am working on some fresh AMD Ryzen Linux laptop comparison benchmarks but for this article is a look at Linux 6.5 on the desktop side with the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X.

New Repo Brings Mainline Linux Kernel to Ubuntu LTS Releases  OMG! Ubuntu!

New Repo Brings Mainline Linux Kernel to Ubuntu LTS Releases  OMG! Ubuntu!

New Repo Brings Mainline Linux Kernel to Ubuntu LTS Releases  OMG! Ubuntu!

SQLite 3.43 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source embedded SQL database library that is widely used by countless applications and other software for a variety of data storage purposes...

OpenMandriva developers today formally announced the release of their rolling-release OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Linux OS installation images, which are also being treated as a release candidate for the OMLx 5.0 non-rolling distribution variant. Making OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 more exciting is that they are now offering separate install media as well that features the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment in its current experimental state but is being offered by OpenMandriva as a "technical preview" around the future direction of the desktop...

OpenMandriva ROME 23.08 Brings KDE Plasma 6 TP Option ...  Phoronix

Whisker Squadron: Survivor takes Star Fox and adds a lil Vampire ...  GamingOnLinux

Fedora with their more liberal update policies will soon be rolling out the Thunderbird 115 mail client to stable Fedora Linux users...

Thunderbird 115 Will Be Rolling Out To Fedora Users  Phoronix

NetApp and Google Cloud Introduce Managed Storage Service to ...  Financial Post

Upstreamed into the Coreboot Git repository this week is the ability to run on the MSI PRO Z790-P DDR4 and DDR5 motherboards for enjoying a latest-generation Intel desktop motherboard that is readily available as an alternative to using the proprietary BIOS implementations...

Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code for Wayland has added the "IMMEDIATE" present mode option that uses Wayland's tearing-control unstable extension to allow for images to be presented immediately but at the risk of visible screen tearing...

OpenELA group pushes for bug compatibility with RHEL  Network World

Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP  The Register

KDE Gear 23.08 is available today as the four-month update to this collection of KDE desktop applications...

While AMD has acquired a number of hardware companies in the past several years, software company acquisitions by AMD has been much more rare. This morning AMD announced the acquisition of Mipsology as an AI software company...

Kali Linux 2023.3 Released: What’s New!  GBHackers