Back in October System76 announced a planned release date for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC Desktop... And they've made it! The new Pop!_OS 24.04 is now available for download as the long-awaited update atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while using their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment...
The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Microsoft Direct3D. Today marks the D7VK 1.0 release for this project in now declaring itself "production ready" for Linux gamers...
With the NVIDIA 590 Linux driver series removing GeForce 900 series "Maxwell" and GeForce 10 series "Pascal" as part of punting it off to the latest legacy driver branch, it's time for a last look at how the mainline NVIDIA Linux driver is performing with these aging graphics cards relative to the current state of the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux drivers. In this article is a look at how the open-source and upstream Nouveau kernel driver with Nouveau/NVK Mesa drivers are performing relative to the NVIDIA 580 series with its Maxwell and Pascal support. For further perspective is also tossing in newer graphics cards too for providing a end-of-year GeForce 980 / 1080 / 2080 / 3080 / 4080 / 5080 series comparison between these different Linux drivers.
Early this year AMD announced the open-source GAIA project for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a showcase of AI support atop their Ryzen AI NPUs and other hardware. That began as a Windows-only project but in September AMD added Linux support to GAIA but only using Vulkan acceleration for AI on Radeon GPUs. Now today GAIA 0.14 is available with "native" support for both macOS and Linux...
In 2024, Orange Pi released a new Single Board Computer (SBC). This is a system with an ARM processor. The specs are: Rockchip RK3588 8-core 64-bit ARM processor with 4 Cortex-A76 (2.4GHz), 4 Cortex-A55 (1.8GHz) and independent NEON coprocessor NEON coprocessor - a Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) allows the same instruction to be used on multiple elements Mali-G610 GPU Built-in 3-D GPU Compatible with OpenGL ES1.1/2.0/3.2, OpenCL 2.2... https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-ubuntu-on-the-orange-pi-5-max-with-emmc-and-nvme.58119/
It was just at the end of month that Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 ISOs were published for the first "Resolute Raccoon" milestone. Out already is now Snapshot 2 with Canonical releasing these images ahead of their engineers having time off for end-of-year holidays...
Krita 5.2.14, a free and open-source digital painting app, delivers the final 5.2 bugfix update with a new circular color picker preview, enhanced touch gestures, and more.
LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution...
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