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Mesa 23.1's RADV driver added initial support for Vulkan Video with select video formats while now a set of patches have been merged to Mesa 23.2-devel for making the H.265 (HEVC) decoding more robust...

Colony building strategy game Imagine Earth adds Linux support  GamingOnLinux

5 Best Sticky Note Apps for Linux (2023)  Beebom

5 Best Sticky Note Apps for Linux  Beebom

Minarca: A Backup Solution You'll Love  Linux Journal

This article appeared in the May 2023 issue of Red Hat Research Quarterly. In 2017, Red Hat Chairman Paul Cormier and Boston University (BU) professor Orran Krieger helped spearhead a collaborative partnership between the two institutions that would come to include expanding Red Hat’s participation in the MOC Alliance, the establishment of the Red Hat Collaboratory at BU for research incubation, and the creation of a Red Hat OpenShift Data Science environment at BU for open source education resources. The Red Hat Research team has been managing Red Hat’s relationship with BU since the t

Back in March the AMD Radeon ProRender SDK 3.1 finished transitioning to HIP for using AMD's HIP C++ interface rather than OpenCL for newer Radeon GPUs. Following that, the Radeon ProRender plug-ins have also now finished being converted over to using HIP on AMD Radeon Vega (GFX9) GPUs and newer...

Intel’s New Open Source Mono Font is Pretty Decent  OMG! Ubuntu!

For over two years Intel open-source engineers have been working on preparing the Linux kernel for UEFI unaccepted memory support and it looks like that will cross the finish line with the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle...

UEFI Unaccepted Memory Support Appears Ready For Linux 6.5  Phoronix

Humble Bundle have a Pixel Pride Bundle up  GamingOnLinux

When Should You Consider WSL vs. a Standard Linux Distro?  MUO - MakeUseOf

A No-Fee Linux CVE Scan from Wind River  Embedded Computing Design

New Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods to infect Windows, Linux  BleepingComputer

Following yesterday's news of OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 3.0 working on the open-source driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics with Asahi Linux using their "edge" channel, those patches to the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver have now worked their way into the upstream Mesa 23.2 codebase...

Diablo 4 and Cyberpunk 2077 now run on a Mac with Apple's new ...  PC Gamer

Trails & Tales update out now for Minecraft  GamingOnLinux

postmarketOS 23.06 Arrives for Linux Phones and Tablets with GNOME Mobile  9to5Linux

Wind River introduces Security Scanning Service for Linux CVEs  Help Net Security

SUSE engineer Nikolay Borisov sent out a set of patches today for "ia32_disabled" that would allow disabling of support for x86 32-bit processes from running on x86_64 Linux systems. As a first step this would be a boot-time option when "ia32_disabled" is set...