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While the Vulkan high performance graphics and compute API is backed by many vendors, Microsoft and Apple are two notable organizations that haven't backed this Khronos Group standard. For Microsoft's part, they obviously prefer their in-house Direct3D. However, Microsoft is making preparations for submitting their first Vulkan extension...

AMD engineers have been working out many quirks and oddities in system suspend/resume handling to make it more reliable on their hardware particularly around Ryzen laptops. In addition to suspend/resume reliability improvements and suspend-to-idle (s2idle) enhancements, one of their engineers also discovered an easy one-liner as a small step to speeding up system resume time...

AMD Has A One-Liner To Help Speed Up Linux System Resume Time  Phoronix

Ivan Orlov this past week posted the patches for VALSA, the Virtual ALSA sound driver that aims to help Linux kernel developers in testing and fuzzing of the sound subsystem...

Virtual ALSA Driver Posted To Help With Linux Testing/Fuzzing  Phoronix

VirusTotal Code Insights To Include Linux, Windows Script Files  Cyber Security News

2 Ways to Remove Ubuntu Software Center Packages  H2S Media

How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files in Linux  Beebom

System76 Lemur Pro is a 2.5 inch Linux Laptop with a 14 inch ...  Liliputing

BugCheck2Linux app lets users run Linux after a Windows crash  TechSpot

Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us  The Register

Asus ROG Ally Emulates Steam Deck OS with ChimeraOS  Tom's Hardware

CodeWeavers partners of Valve on Proton move to an Employee ...  GamingOnLinux

Trans model Linux, once sent to NYC men's prison, posts Bud Light video  New York Post

The Linux Foundation launches open-source project with ...  RCR Wireless News

The Outlast Trials out now - amazing on Steam Deck (and desktop ...  GamingOnLinux

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.9 as the latest major update to this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan API implementation that is used by Steam Play (Proton) for running modern Windows games on Linux...

CodeWeavers, the company known for its CrossOver software for running Windows games/apps on Linux / macOS / Chrome OS and in turn being the main corporate backer to the Wine project, is now transitioned to being an employee ownership trust. This comes with Jeremy White deciding to leave the company after 27 years...

NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Due to the constantly evolving state of the open-source Linux graphics drivers in particular, here is a fresh look at an assortment of AMD Radeon GPUs making use of the Mesa 23.2 development code for the newest RadeonSI and RADV drivers paired with the recently released Linux 6.3 kernel. These open-source Radeon Linux gaming benchmark results are going up against various NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series graphics cards using the NVIDIA 530.41.09 release as its latest Linux driver.