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Linux Mint Adds Support for Touchpad Gestures  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux hits a multi-year high for user share on Steam thanks to Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux hits a multi-year high for user share on Steam thanks to Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat has decided they will be doing less work on desktop applications and will stop shipping LibreOffice as part of a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release (presumably RHEL10). This is also limiting Red Hat's engagement in working on LibreOffice packaging for Fedora while the hope is that the Flatpak'ed LibreOffice will fill the void...

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement  Phoronix

It's almost a daily occurrence to find interesting Linux kernel patches (and to other open-source projects too!) by Intel's large cabal of open-source engineers. The latest crossing my radar is for allowing the Linux "intel_idle" driver to run inside virtual machine (VM) guests...

Intel's Latest Linux Patches To Boost VM Performance - Particularly ...  Phoronix

The Linux 1-Wire "w1" subsystem is used for supporting drivers with hardware that communicates via a single wire (plus ground) in a simple master-slave configuration The Linux kernel has drivers such as for W1 over GPIO, i2c to W1 bridge, and supporting some very old hardware. The W1 subsystem hasn't seen much work recently while for the upcoming Linux 6.5 cycle will be seeing a larger update...

1-Wire "w1" Subsystem Seeing More Activity With Linux 6.5  Phoronix

Is MINIX Dead? And Does It Matter?  Hackaday

Linux Mint 21.2 with Cinnamon 5.8 Is Getting Support for Gestures  9to5Linux

Linux System Administrator at Paracon  IT-Online

By pairing Wine and QEMU, Hangover continues as one of the open-source projects working to allow Windows games/apps run on other architectures like AArch64 and potentially POWER, RISC-V, and others too...

Hangover 0.8.9 Released For Running More Windows Games/Apps ...  Phoronix

The Freedreno Gallium3D driver within Mesa 23.2-devel is now able to expose OpenGL 4.6 support for Qualcomm's Adreno 600 series graphics processors...

What is Tails?  Android Police

On Monday, 5 June, will mark 19 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews...

How to download and install ChatGPT on all platforms  Geeky Gadgets

Samsung joins Linux-initiated RISE project for RISC-V development  DIGITIMES

2020 iMac 27" Advice re: multi-boot, value  MacRumors