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In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD kicked off CES 2024 in Las Vegas by announcing the Radeon RX 7600 XT as their newest RDNA3 discrete graphics card for gamers.

Heroic Games Launcher Version 2.12.0: A New Era of Enhanced Gaming on Linux and Steam Deck  BNN Breaking

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments  GamingOnLinux

Ingo Molnar sent in all of the scheduler changes this morning for the now-open Linux 6.8 merge window...

Linux 6.8 Scheduler Changes Include New EEVDF Fast Path, Additional Scheduler Tuning  Phoronix

ProtonUp-Qt v2.9.1 released for easy compatibility tool installs on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 7th, 2024  9to5Linux

14 Basic Tar Commands in Linux with Examples for Newbies  GeekyGen

Unleashing Linux Gaming: Tools, Tips, and Techniques  BNN Breaking

Linux 6.8 EDAC Ready To Deal With Errors On AMD AI Accelerators & Intel Meteor Lake P/PS  Phoronix

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates for Linux 6.8 have been submitted for dealing with ECC reporting under Linux and the other error detection/recovery driver updates...

Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever  GamingOnLinux

GNU Linux-Libre 6.7 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs  9to5Linux

There's been much work recently on a new unified renderer for the GTK toolkit. Yesterday a merge request was opened and already merged that enables Vulkan by default...

While much of the focus by graphics vendors these days is on their Vulkan driver support/performance and less so about OpenGL in 2024, AMD's open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for Linux systems is still showing no signs of slowing down and still scoring more performance victories...

Rust For Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda was among those submitting early pull requests of code feature changes for the now-open Linux 6.8 kernel cycle...

Rust Toolchain Upgrade Submitted For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

AMD's OpenGL Linux Driver Already Scored A Nice Performance Win For 2024  Phoronix

Following Linus Torvalds' release of the Linux 6.7 kernel last night, the FSFLA folks have released GNU Linux-libre 6.7-gnu as their downstream that strips out non-free microcode/firmware blob support and removes other bits that are not deemed in the interest of free software...

GNU Linux-libre 6.7 Cleans Up Graphics Driver Blobs, Addresses New Drivers  Phoronix