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Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven't yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton...

Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation's release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1...

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smtdswd1h2w4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363378 Points: 46 # Comments: 27

Following the release of NetBSD 11.0 in August, NetBSD 11.1 is out today with a collection of security fixes and other improvements...

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The openSUSE project has announced the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. The release is notable for allowing both traditional installations and immutable images with transactional updates. While immutable images had previously been available for Leap Micro, they are now available across all platforms that Leap supports, including servers, desktops, and virtual machines. "Leap's image gives the best of both for traditional and immutable users, and we expect that Tumbleweed will follow when Agama becomes the default installer for Tumbleweed as well." said Leap release manager Lubos Kocman. "The Leap Micro experience people relied on is still here, but now it shares the same release, the same life cycle and the same maintenance updates as the rest of Leap, so users only have to pick the mode that fits their workload."

Microsoft has been doing a lot of work to improve memory usage and increase performance on Windows 11 PCs over the past year. Last month the company revealed Windows 11 is now "more responsive" and runs better on PCs with 8GB of RAM, and now the company is releasing a new update today that includes further memory improvements. "On 8 GB PCs, Windows is now up to 20 percent more responsive, and multitasking is up to 40 percent faster in our lab test," says Windows chief Pavan Davuluri. One of the key ways Microsoft has achieved better performance on PCs with 8GB of RAM is through compression. "As a result, Windows can now keep up to 2 GB mor … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Linux 7.4 kernel is hopefully going to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version and is coming jam-packed with new features and changes.

Fedora Linux 45 has been released. This includes all editions: Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, Fedora Server, Fedora Cloud, Fedora CoreOS, and Fedora IoT, as well as the Atomic Desktops and Spins. This release adds support for installation on Stratis storage using Anaconda or Kickstart installs, retires unmaintained VPN plugins for NetworkManager, and updates Fedora's desktop environments, developer toolchains, and system packages. See the Fedora wiki ChangeSet page for a list of major changes.

This is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series and with this release, openSUSE’s immutable server distribution, Leap Micro, becomes part of Leap itself through a new Immutable Mode. Comments

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/windows-11-gets-right-click-menu-improvements-as-pc-revenue-slides/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50351463 Points: 41 # Comments: 110

In addition to organizations like Alibaba, SpaceXSI, DigitalOcean, Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, and others contributing millions of dollars toward the development of the Omarchy Linux distribution, it turns out AMD also has a thing for this Linux distribution built around the Hyprland compositor...