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Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For ...  Phoronix

Wine 8.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and the final one prior to the feature freeze coming up in two weeks...

For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here's a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.

Upcoming bullet hell shooter Cosmic Carnage looks wild  GamingOnLinux

Explore secrets in a sacred operating system in Crossroad OS  GamingOnLinux

Intel on Thursday committed Arrow Lake "ARL" support to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and Level Zero while on Windows IGC is additionally used as their graphics shader compiler as well...

Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler  Phoronix

How to Use Nmap on Linux to See Who's on Your Wi-Fi Network  MUO - MakeUseOf

In time for any holiday gaming, Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.11 as its Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying the latest Windows games on Linux...

VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default ...  Phoronix

Best Kodi VPN Of 2023 – Forbes Advisor  Forbes

Hear me out: Apple should bring back Boot Camp for Arm Macs  XDA Developers

Musique Music Player Ported to Qt 6, Refreshes UI  OMG! Ubuntu!

Screen Commands in Linux with Examples  LXer

Hell Let Loose now works on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Deckmate, my favourite Steam Deck accessory is discounted for ...  GamingOnLinux

While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke different ioctls directly. LACT is now the newest open-source option for those wanting an AMD graphics driver control panel for Linux...

LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux  Phoronix

Following yesterday's week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year...

Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8  Phoronix