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Back in March the AMD Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 finished transitioning to HIP for using AMD's HIP C++ interface rather than OpenCL for newer Radeon GPUs. Following that, the Radeon ProRender plug-ins have also now finished being converted over to using HIP on AMD Radeon Vega (GFX9) GPUs and newer...

For over two years Intel open-source engineers have been working on preparing the Linux kernel for UEFI unaccepted memory support and it looks like that will cross the finish line with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...

UEFI Unaccepted Memory Support Appears Ready For Linux 6.5  Phoronix

Humble Bundle have a Pixel Pride Bundle up  GamingOnLinux

When Should You Consider WSL vs. a Standard Linux Distro?  MUO - MakeUseOf

New Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods to infect Windows, Linux  BleepingComputer

Following yesterday's news of OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 working on the open-source driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics with Asahi Linux using their "edge" channel, those patches to the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver have now worked their way into the upstream Mesa 23.2 codebase...

Diablo 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 now run on a Mac with Apple's new ...  PC Gamer

postmarketOS 23.06 Arrives for Linux Phones and Tablets with GNOME Mobile  9to5Linux

Wind River introduces Security Scanning Service for Linux CVEs  Help Net Security

SUSE engineer Nikolay Borisov sent out a set of patches today for "ia32_disabled" that would allow disabling of support for x86 32-bit processes from running on x86_64 Linux systems. As a first step this would be a boot-time option when "ia32_disabled" is set...

Linux Patches Posted That Would Allow Boot-Time Disabling Of x86 32-bit Processes  Phoronix

Open Mainframe Summit Call for Papers Now Open  PR Newswire

Secure64 Software Corporation, announces the launch of its next ...  PR Web

For those using openSUSE Leap as the rock-solid, time-tested alternative to the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, today marks the availability of openSUSE Leap 15.5 as another incremental upgrade to the Leap 15 series...

GE-Proton 8-4 is out now with game fixes and other upgrades  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Reveals Homebrewed Linux Distro for Azure  Techgenyz

Unleashing the Power of Linux Operating System for Enterprise ...  Digital Journal

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market 2023 key ...  KaleidoScot

Queued via drm-misc-next and now on its way to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle is support in the VirtIO GPU DRM driver for the synchronization object user-space API. This is important for Vulkan and is working with the Venus/Virgl driver context as well as Intel/AMDGPU/Freedreno native contexts too...