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What Is Conky, and How Can It Make Your Linux Desktop Look Amazing?  How-To Geek

Following yesterday's release of VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 in Vulkan 1.3.277 for AV1 video decoding, a Mesa merge request has already been opened for adding the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 extension to the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver...

Following the release of OBS Studio 30.0 last November, OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 was released today as what will be the next feature release for this open-source software that is popular with livestreamers and other game streaming / desktop recording purposes...

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta Released With AV1 For VA-API & AV1 For WebRTC/WHIP Output  Phoronix

Linux remains above macOS on the Steam Survey for January 2024  GamingOnLinux

Linux remains above macOS on the Steam Survey for January 2024  GamingOnLinux

Linux remains above macOS on the Steam Survey for January 2024  GamingOnLinux

Linux hardware maker System76 now offers 'Serval WS' notebook with Intel i9-14900HX CPU  Notebookcheck.net

As CentOS OS 7 nears end-of-life, what are the alternatives?  TechHQ

Clonezilla Live 3.1.2 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS and Memtest86+ 7.00  9to5Linux

Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.3 Is Out Now Powered by Linux Kernel 6.7  9to5Linux

Wow! Windows is Coming up With its Linux Like Sudo Command  It's FOSS News

Teaching Linux to Software Developers With This Book  It's FOSS

Torvalds Has It With "-Wstringop-overflow" On GCC Due To Kernel Breakage  Phoronix

One of the new features for Linux 6.8 that was merged late was enabling the -Wstringop-overflow compiler option to warn about possible buffer overflows in cases where the compiler can detect such possible overflows at compile-time. While it's nice in theory, issues on GCC has led Linus Torvalds to disabling this compiler option as of now Linux 6.8...

PANZER-PLUS Offers BSP and Ready-to-Run Images for Linux/Android OSes  LinuxGizmos.com

Real-Time Linux Applicability for Hard Real-Time Systems  Open Source For You

While all major feature development for the Simple DirectMedia Layer "SDL" is currently focused on SDL 3.0 for this library commonly used by cross-platform games for various hardware/software abstractions, SDL 2.30 released on Thursday as a new point release in the SDL2 series...

Open-Source Community “Linux China” Ceases Operation  Pandaily

With the start of a new month comes the Steam Survey results for the month prior. For January 2024, the reported Steam on Linux marketshare continued falling just short of the 2% threshold...