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It looks like Intel will soon be submitting their first Xe Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver pull request to DRM-Next for mainlining this modern, current and future hardware focused kernel graphics driver to be added to the mainline Linux kernel

While Blender is at the forefront of receiving corporate sponsorships and funding for advancing that open-source 3D modeling software, other free software graphics programs haven't all received the same level of support

The openSUSE project has been working on a rebranding to better differentiate between this community open-source project and SUSE itself

SQLite as the leading open-source embedded database solution has landed JSONB, a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that can be up to 'several times faster' than the existing JSON functions.

AlmaLinux's ELevate software is a wonderful utility to help ease migration between existing major versions of RHEL derivatives

As noted in late November, AMD has begun enabling new 'GFX12' hardware in LLVM for their AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end

Ahead of the holidays systemd 255 has debuted as stable and comes with systemd-bsod as a 'Blue Screen of Death' service capable of displaying full-screen error messages on Linux

Fedora 40 is eyeing the next phase of its unified kernel (UKI) support within the distribution that will include the ability to support booting to unified kernel image files directly without having to go through a traditional bootloader like GRUB or SD-Boot.

Cloudflare has talked up their success in using the open-source Linux-based OpenBMC software for baseboard management controllers (BMCs) as a replacement to proprietary BMC software stacks.

While there hasn't been much in the way of new Linux game ports from Feral Interactive since Steam Play (Valve's Proton + VKD3D-Proton) took over the scene, they do continue maintaining their GameMode open-source service and today released GameMode 1.8 with work by them and the open-source community.