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Merged last week to the X.Org Server is support in the 2D-acceleration-via-OpenGL GLAMOR code for allowing OpenGL ES 3.0 (GLES3) shaders...

X.Org's GLAMOR Adds Support For OpenGL ES 3.0 Shaders  Phoronix

Kicking off XDC 2023 yesterday in Spain was Igalia's Melissa Wen talking about her work on color management with the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack to empower Valve's Linux work on the Steam Deck. That was followed by Joshua Ashton of Valve talking about their work on HDR and color management from the Steam OS / Gamescope side for the Steam Deck...

The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope ...  Phoronix

Adding to the list of vendors exposing ACPI Platform Profile controls under Linux so the user can easily set their power/performance preference for the system is major Chinese hardware company Inspur...

Inspur WMI Platform Profile Driver Being Worked On For Linux  Phoronix

Mold 2.3 was released today by Rui Ueyama as the newest version of this high-speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions  Phoronix

An Interesting Bluetooth App for Linux Just Appeared!  It's FOSS News

It's already that time of the Qt 6.5 long-term support (LTS) cycle where The Qt Company has shifted it over to being focused on access only to their commercial customers...

Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase  Phoronix

Steering wheel manager Oversteer v0.8.0 adds new hardware support  GamingOnLinux

Qubitstrike attacks rootkit Jupyter Linux servers to steal credentials  BleepingComputer

Qubitstrike attacks rootkit Jupyter Linux servers to steal credentials  BleepingComputer

Run and gun action game Schizollama now up on Kickstarter with a ...  GamingOnLinux

Check out the free sci-fi adventure Shrouded Space  GamingOnLinux

AWS Data Provider for SAP now supports Oracle Linux OS, more JDK versions, and Linux logrotate  AWS Blog

Refactor to Modern .NET and Move to Linux | Microsoft Workloads on AWS  AWS Blog

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AMD today posted a set of interesting patches for enabling better integration of their AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver, what is their compute kernel driver) memory management with Linux's DRM GEM ioctl API. In turn the code allows managing virtual address (VA) mappings in compute VMs with the GEM_VA ioctl interface for greater control of buffers imported via DMA-BUF...