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The most significant limitation of Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with the existing open-source driver stack has been the lack of sparse resources support that is needed for many newer games to work via Steam Play on Linux. Intel has a proper solution in place with their yet-to-be-merged Xe kernel driver while now for Mesa 24.0 their ANV Vulkan driver has landed an implementation that works with the existing i915 kernel driver...

This weekend marks 25 years already since Valve originally released Half-Life! In celebration of this milestone, Valve released today the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update that now includes official Steam Deck support, Steam networking and controller support, updated graphics settings, and more...

Valve Updates Half-Life For 25th Anniversary - Adds Official Steam ...  Phoronix

System76 have some great discounts on various Linux hardware  GamingOnLinux

Run MacOS VM's in Docker on Windows & Linux with Docker-OSX  OSXDaily

Linux 6.7 Features Include Bcachefs, Stable Meteor Lake Graphics ...  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.7 merge window having closed on Sunday, here's a recap of all the interesting new features to find with this new kernel. Linux 6.7 stable will be out either in the final days of 2023 or more than likely in the early days of next year.

How to Find Where apt Installed That Package on Debian and Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

As noted a few weeks back, NVIDIA is working to add OpenACC support to the upstream LLVM Clang compiler for this parallel computing standard. Today that work began landing in LLVM/Clang's development codebase...

Initial OpenACC Code Begins Landing In The LLVM Clang Compiler  Phoronix

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa has added support for the protected memory feature available with Vulkan 1.1+...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Protected Memory Support  Phoronix

An initial set of drm-misc-next changes has been sent out today to DRM-Next of the very first feature patches to begin queuing until the Linux 6.8 merge window opens up around the start of the new year...

Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of ...  Phoronix

Multiple vulnerabilities found in PureVPN Linux app  The Independent

How to change password on Ubuntu Linux  XDA Developers

While the KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell desktops are running on Wayland well, there are still many smaller desktops that haven't yet been ported over to Wayland or still in the early stages. There's also no shortage of passionate open-source developers toying around with their own desktops / compositors. Louvre is now the latest library out there like WLROOTS and libweston aiming to help develop Wayland compositors...

Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors  Phoronix

For those Ubuntu Linux users enjoying the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for having the very latest kernel stable point releases or being able to test daily Git kernel builds with ease or weekly RCs, the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA returned this week after a month of downtime...

Ubuntu's Mainline Kernel PPA Is Back To Providing The Latest Linux Kernel Builds  Phoronix