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It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release

Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS...
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It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release

Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide 'accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs.
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Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...
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Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

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Wayback: experimental layer to run X desktop environments on Wayland

With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future. Alpine Linux, a distribution focused on musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC, also wants to reduce its maintenance bur

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Orange Pi Nova Teased with Loongson 2K3000 as Loongson Expands Product Line lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Orange Pi Nova Teased with Loongson 2K3000 as Loongson Expands Product Line Orange Pi Nova Teased with Loongson 2K3000 as Loongson Expands Product Line

This week, Orange Pi previewed its upcoming Orange Pi Nova, a single-board computer developed in collaboration with Loongson.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems.
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GPD MicroPC 2 with Intel N250 Brings Multi-Port Connectivity to Ultra-Mobile Design lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

GPD MicroPC 2 with Intel N250 Brings Multi-Port Connectivity to Ultra-Mobile Design GPD MicroPC 2 with Intel N250 Brings Multi-Port Connectivity to Ultra-Mobile Design

GPD has shared early information about the MicroPC 2 on Indiegogo, describing it as an updated version of its ultra-compact computer for mobile technical tasks and on-site troubleshooting. The device measures about 171 × 110 × 23.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...
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Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...
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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the 'Cyan Skillfish' support to some new APU devices.
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Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...
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Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland

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GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...
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GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the 'Alpha 1' releases.
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KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year.
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LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI program…
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Libre Computer Updates Alta and Solitude SBCs with New Firmware and Wake-on-LAN Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Libre Computer Updates Alta and Solitude SBCs with New Firmware and Wake-on-LAN Support Libre Computer Updates Alta and Solitude SBCs with New Firmware and Wake-on-LAN Support

Libre Computer has released new firmware updates for its low-cost single-board computers, the AML-A311D-CC Alta and the AML-S905D3-CC Solitude.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver

The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer.
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Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with t…
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Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs

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Unlocking system performance: A practical guide to tuning PCP on Fedora & RHEL lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

🔧 Unlocking system performance: A practical guide to tuning PCP on Fedora & RHEL - Fedora Magazine

This guide walks you through tuning PCP’s pmlogger service to better fit your needs—whether you're debugging performance issues or running on constrained hardware.
Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)

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RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...
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RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer

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