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With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.

It’s hallowe’en, and there’s a frightfully good treat waiting for fans of the free, open-source racing game SuperTuxKart – a new beta!

One of the things we didn't expect to see at this year's Ubuntu get-together was a chart showing Rocky Linux's dominance. Another was demos of whizz-bang special movie effects with open source componentry at their heart.

M5Stack has launched the M5Stack LLM Module, an advanced offline large language model inference module designed for terminal devices requiring efficient, cloud-independent AI processing. This product is described as targeting offline applications such as smart homes, voice assistants, and industrial control.

Still in its “anti-hero” era, Ticketmaster has users reeling from a data breach last May, when a hacker group claimed to have stolen data from more than 500 million people.

Built on containers, Flatcar Container Linux, a derivative of the CoreOS distribution, has been accepted as an incubation project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors.

Respawn Entertainment has revealed that Linux OS is no longer supported for Apex Legends, including on the Steam Deck. While the developer says this change will make stopping cheaters easier, the decision will disappoint those who enjoyed playing Apex Legends on the operating system.

If you’re tired of Windows 11 and ready for a fresh start, Nitrux 3.7.1 is absolutely worth exploring. This Linux-based distribution has just rolled out its latest update (build 311024.sp), featuring Linux 6.11.5-1 (Liquorix), a setup that targets performance, security, and compatibility enhancements.

Linux distributions are renowned for the ability to customize the system to your liking. Linux Mint is not an exception.

AAEON UP Squared Pro 710H is a 4×4-inch SBC and developer board designed for machine vision applications with an Intel Processor N97 or Core i3-N305 Alder Lake-N CPU and a 26 TOPS Hailo-8 Edge AI processor. Supported operating systems include Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Yocto 4.0.

With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin "classic" core model, and the new flagship 192-core Turin "dense" core SKU, respectively.

Alpine Linux is a high-performance, ultra-minimalist distro designed for virtual machines (VM), Docker containers, and embedded devices. I have been using it for the past six months on several VM and docker images.

CrowdSupply recently launched the USB Insight Hub, a tool designed to provide detailed monitoring and control over multiple USB devices. Built for developers and tech enthusiasts, this hub offers a range of monitoring features, allowing users to view power and data usage in depth.

Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case.

Fedora 41 is available to download. Learn about its best features before you upgrade or install.

Python has overtaken JavaScript as the most-used language on GitHub, according to the code-hosting platform’s latest Octoverse report.

There are a lot of tasks you'll come across during everyday use of the Ubuntu operating system, and the many other great Linux distributions. One of the most common is mounting drives, either internal or external ones like a solid-state drive or a portable USB drive.

Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel.

Mark Zuckerberg sits behind the wheel of a Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing, Open AI’s Sam Altman gets from A to B in a Koenigsegg Regera, and for many of us, Elon Musk drives us mad. But what about Linux kingpin Linus Torvalds?