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Tinkerer’s Treasure: dArkOS Brings Debian Linux to RK3326/3356 Devices  Retro Handhelds

With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes for the past two weeks...

3 safe ways to install Linux apps that aren’t in your repo (without breaking anything)  How-To Geek

Steam games finally run better on Linux Arm devices, and you can test them right now  XDA

Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  OMG! Ubuntu

The European Commission wants help pushing for open source software  PC Gamer

AMD today sent out their latest pull request to DRM-Next of new AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes they are looking to get into the next kernel cycle, which will either be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely be called Linux 7.0. Notable with this week's pull request is enabling a lot of new GPU hardware IP blocks, including GC/GFX 12.1 as a new addition past the current GFX12.0 / RDNA4...

Linux Kernel Bugs Can Hide for 20 Years  Bitdefender

'There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid': Linus Torvalds weighs in on AI debate in Linux kernel documentation  PC Gamer

I switched to Linux: Bye macOS and Windows  overkill.wtf

3 Linux apps to try this weekend (January 9 - 11)  How-To Geek

Daily driving Linux for 3 years taught me these 6 habits  How-To Geek

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Should Become Civilization Infrastructure Like Linux  ICOBench.com

Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too  GamingOnLinux

There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...

The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good...

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs  Phoronix

Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light holiday weeks. Sent out today were the DRM fixes for Linux 6.19-rc5 that includes a fix for broken support for newer NVIDIA GPUs on the Nouveau open-source driver...

loss32 Wants to Turn Linux Into a Full Win32 Desktop Powered by WINE  Linuxiac

Valve released the SteamOS 3.7.20 beta overnight and with it they are finally building the NTSYNC kernel driver for helping accelerate Windows NT synchronization primitives...