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CodeWeavers partners of Valve on Proton move to an Employee ...  GamingOnLinux

Trans model Linux, once sent to NYC men's prison, posts Bud Light video  New York Post

The Linux Foundation launches open-source project with ...  RCR Wireless News

The Outlast Trials out now - amazing on Steam Deck (and desktop ...  GamingOnLinux

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.9 as the latest major update to this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan API implementation that is used by Steam Play (Proton) for running modern Windows games on Linux...

CodeWeavers, the company known for its CrossOver software for running Windows games/apps on Linux / macOS / Chrome OS and in turn being the main corporate backer to the Wine project, is now transitioned to being an employee ownership trust. This comes with Jeremy White deciding to leave the company after 27 years...

NVIDIA R530 vs. AMD Linux 6.3 + Mesa 23.2-dev Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Due to the constantly evolving state of the open-source Linux graphics drivers in particular, here is a fresh look at an assortment of AMD Radeon GPUs making use of the Mesa 23.2 development code for the newest RadeonSI and RADV drivers paired with the recently released Linux 6.3 kernel. These open-source Radeon Linux gaming benchmark results are going up against various NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30/40 series graphics cards using the NVIDIA 530.41.09 release as its latest Linux driver.

Last Christmas, a short and 'not so sweet' adventure gets a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

There's a new open-source Vulkan driver in development by an independent developer that is working on providing support for aging Radeon HD 6000 series "Northern Islands" graphics processors...

Street Fighter 6 Proton update brings fixes for Steam Deck & Linux  Dexerto

There's been a Fedora 39 proposal under evaluation for boosting the kernel's vm.max_map_count to help with some Windows games on Steam Play. Though concerns were raised that bumping this kernel tunable too high may not be wise. As such, further testing is to happen for tuning Fedora's stock vm.max_map_count value...

Fedora To Further Evaluate vm.max_map_count Tuning For Better ...  Phoronix

DeckHD: Waitlist open for upgraded Steam Deck screen at $99  Dexerto

How to quickly make minor changes to complex Linux commands  Network World

Allianz ditches mainframe for scale and innovation  CIO

Nearly forty years after the MIDI digital music protocol was first introduced, in 2020 the MIDI 2.0 protocol was announced as a major overhaul for this widely used standard by musical devices. A big patch series sent out today prepares the Linux kernel sound drivers for MIDI 2.0...

Big Patch Series Prepares The Linux Audio Drivers For MIDI 2.0  Phoronix

Intel's open-source Mesa Vulkan Video driver "ANV" has added support for H.265 (HEVC) video decoding...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds H.265 Video Decoding Support  Phoronix