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Following the news last week of Firefox outperforming Chrome in SunSpider, a Phoronix reader pointed out Mercury that is an open-source web browser claiming to be the "fastest Firefox fork" and making use of Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) and AES instructions along with compiler features like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO) and Profile-Guided Optimizations (PGO). The project advertises as being 8-20% faster than upstream Firefox. Curious I ran a couple benchmarks on my end of this Firefox fork.

NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and Half-Life 2 RTX announced  GamingOnLinux

Rent A Europe Linux Dedicated And Vps Server Hosting By ...  MENAFN.COM

Continuing to support x86 32-bit processors with the mainline Linux kernel continues to be a maintenance burden and uncovering ugly bits of code that are seldom touched. The latest work is on fixing up the 32-bit early microcode loading code so that it's more robust and actually correct...

Linux Microcode Loading For x86 32-bit CPUs Being Cleaned Up & Corrected  Phoronix

While we are waiting on NVIDIA to roll out a beta of their next post-R535 Linux driver release stream, available today is the NVIDIA 535.104.05 Linux driver as their latest in this production driver branch...

NVIDIA 535.104.05 Fixes An Issue Using The Open Kernel Driver With SLI  Phoronix

SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck gets a screen colour temperature setting  GamingOnLinux

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has just released Fwupd 1.9.4 as the newest version of thus open-source software that goes along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making it easy to deploy new firmware/BIOS updates for systems and countless peripherals under Linux...

Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More ...  Phoronix

GNOME's Sysprof is a wonderful system-wide profiling tool for helping developers analyze bottlenecks and debug other challenging issues. This system profiler has covered both kernel and user-space but to date has not provided any insight around the CPU scheduler behavior and thus developers have had to resort to other tooling there. But for the GNOME 45 release, Sysprof has integrated CPU scheduler details...

Roblox support is coming back to Wine on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Getting started with VOIPAC IMX8M Industrial development kit (Yocto Linux SDK)  CNX Software

One nugget of information in the LibreOffice 7.6 release announcement for those who missed it and deserves calling out specifically... Succeeding LibreOffice 7.6 will not be v7.7 or v8.0 but rather v24.2...

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Bodhi 7.0 Releases Based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS With Desktop Enhancements  It's FOSS News

Global Linux Operating System Market Analysis and Projections for ...  Digital Journal

Kontron Develops the New Linux Based SecureOS Operating System That Provides Security and Data Protection for IoT Solutions in Critical Areas  Marketscreener.com

Privacy is Sexy: custom privacy scripts for Windows, Linux and macOS  Ghacks

Mastering Processes in Linux: A Comprehensive Tutorial  Open Source For You