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Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster  Phoronix

With Meteor Lake comes the introduction of the Versatile Processing Unit (VPU) that is now marketed by Intel as the Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Recent versions of the Linux kernel have the "IVPU" accelerator driver to support Meteor Lake's VPU/NPU while now a patch is pending to extend that support for next-generation Arrow Lake processors...

Intel Arrow Lake's NPU/VPU Very Similar To Meteor Lake - Linux ...  Phoronix

The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request was opened for implementing the draft color management protocol with the Weston reference compositor...

With Plasma 6.0 aiming for an early February release, more of the KDE developer attention is turning to bug fixing...

KDE Plasma 6 Seeing Many Bug Fixes -- Including For The Plasma ...  Phoronix

While VKD3D-Proton continues to be the downstream used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and receiving a bulk of the Windows D3D12 gaming optimizations, Wine's upstream VKD3D project continues to evolve for mapping the Direct3D 12 API atop Vulkan. Released on Thursday was VKD3D 1.9 as the newest feature update...

Open Source in the Enterprise: How Qualcomm Contributes to the ...  All About Circuits

Akira Ransomware Mutates to Target Linux Systems, Adds TTPs  Dark Reading

Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would ...  GamingOnLinux

Lies of P is running great on Steam Deck and desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

KaOS Linux 2023.09 Adds KDE Gear 23.08, Focus To Shift On KDE Plasma 6 ISO  9to5Linux

NewsFlash 3.0 Released with Slick New Look  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Discover the Screen Resolution in Linux Scripts  How-To Geek

Steam Deck and SteamOS are great for Linux as a whole - Open Source Summit Europe 2023  GamingOnLinux

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 Released With Quadbuffer Stereo, Quake 2 ...  Phoronix

Steam Deck a 'stable target for a couple years' so no Steam Deck 2 ...  GamingOnLinux

AMD used to release new AMDVLK Vulkan driver updates on a near weekly basis for Linux users but that has slowed down for a while. We are approaching the end of Q3 and now AMDVLK 2023.Q3.2 has been published as their first new open-source driver release since early August...

This shouldn't come as any surprise to any longtime Phoronix readers and dedicated open-source/Linux enthusiasts, but Valve with their work on the Steam Deck and SteamOS have been lifting the open-source ecosystem as a whole. A talk this week at the Linux Foundation Europe's Open-Source Summit highlighted some of the great and ongoing contributions by Valve and their partners...

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community  Phoronix