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Somewhat surprisingly, AMD engineers have been working on some new Linux kernel patches for their aging Jadeite platform...

While GTK4 is still in its early stages and it will presumably be some years before "GTK5" even begins to take shape, GNOME developers are already thinking of ditching X11 support for that next major GTK release -- effectively making it Wayland-only on Linux...

How to Change Mac Address in Linux – HackerNet  Security Boulevard

Linux Mint 21 will not come with systemd-oom for low-resource machines  Neowin

China rallies support for Kylin Linux in war on Windows  The Register

In addition to Intel this week releasing the VA-API 2.15 video acceleration library, their open-source engineers also published their newest quarterly feature release of their open-source Intel Media Driver that implements the VA-API interface for their graphics hardware...

What gives you a bad impression about a distro and why? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Back in 2018 Intel announced Sound Open Firmware (SOF) as their push for open-source sound firmware and looking to drive new software innovations in the audio DSP space. Out this week is Sound Open Firmware 2.2 for providing the newest features for this open-source software stack supporting Windows and Linux...

For those interested in the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered, open-source OpenGL support for Vivante graphics IP its newest feature is supporting GLSL asynchronous shader compilation...

12 Best Linux Games To Play In 2022  Tech News Today

For those enjoying some Linux gaming over the US holiday weekend, NVIDIA issued a rare Saturday driver update in the form of new Vulkan driver betas for Windows and Linux...

Darktable 4.0 Released to Celebrate 10 Years of Open Source RAW Image Editing  9to5Linux

Darktable 4.0 has debuted today as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform RAW photography software suite...

NFV, SDN & Wireless Network Infrastructure Market Size [2022-2029] -, AT&T Mobility, CiscSystems, Baidu, Ericsson, D2 Technologies, Motorola Solutions, Fujitsu, IBM, Huawei Technologies, The Linux Foundation, Intel Corporation, Ova Corporatio  Indian Defence News

Linux 5.20 Prepped For Intel's Arc Alchemist Desktop Graphics Cards & Arctic Sound-M Server GPUs  Wccftech

After many months and a lot of work by the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developers, Linux 5.20 looks like it will be the base kernel where the DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics desktop GPUs and Arctic Sound M (ATS-M) server graphics card support will be ready in usable shape...

Linux Mint 21 is working its way toward release this summer as the latest version of this desktop OS that is being built atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unlike Ubuntu 22.04 upstream that is now using systemd-oomd by default on the desktop to try to improve the low memory / system memory pressure experience, Linux Mint has now decided to avoid this daemon due to user criticism...

It's sadly been years since having anything major to report on for Xonotic, the open-source first person shooter game that started out many years ago as Nexuiz. Thankfully a new version of Xonotic was published this week and while it's just a point release, it does come with many improvements...

The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA  The Register

Firewalld 1.2 was released on Friday as the newest feature release for this Linux firewall daemon. Bug fix releases for existing stable series were released with Firewalld 1.1.2, 1.0.5, and 0.9.9...