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With the newly-started Mesa 24.0 development cycle a very exciting feature landed today... The ACO compiler integration for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver has appeared to effectively wrap up for optionally making use of this Valve-developed shader compiler as an alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader back-end...

RadeonSI Completes ACO Compiler Support With Mesa 24.0  Phoronix

Tucked away within the October 2023 monthly status updates for the Linux Mint project is word they have begun working on their Wayland support...

Linux Mint Starts Working On Wayland For Cinnamon, Likely Not ...  Phoronix

Microsoft says it's heading to the Ubuntu Summit from November 3-5  Neowin

Linux on Scratch Is Proven Possible, Thanks to This Clever RISC-V Emulator Project  Hackster.io

Given the recent launch of the Intel Arc Graphics A580 for under $200, I've been working on a fresh round of Intel / AMD Radeon / NVIDIA GeForce Linux gaming/graphics and compute benchmark results. Next week that fresh arsenal of Linux graphics benchmarks on the very latest drivers will be published but for today is a look at the most surprising aspect: the OpenCL-focused GPU compute benchmarks.

StripedFly malware framework infects 1 million Windows, Linux hosts  BleepingComputer

Farlight 84 players reporting bans on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

CIQ Simplifies HPC Deployment With Rocky Linux, Mountain and ...  PR Web

The Servo open-source web browser engine continues progressing as a community project under the leadership of Linux Foundation Europe. Over the course of October more features were implemented and additional fixes merged...

Servo Web Engine Made Some Nice Progress In October  Phoronix

HOT WHEELS UNLEASHED 2 - Turbocharged is good fun with ...  GamingOnLinux

How to Exit an Unresponsive SSH Session on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

GNOME 45.1 Improves Flatpak Permission Checks, Adds Support for More CPUs  9to5Linux

Squadron 42 finally 'feature complete', CIG talk up Vulkan support ...  GamingOnLinux

Squadron 42 finally 'feature complete', CIG talk up Vulkan support ...  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu desktop developer Daniel Van Vugt has been working on enabling zero-copy support for discrete GPUs within GNOME's Mutter compositor to deliver faster performance. This appears to be working so far with the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...

Experimental Zero-Copy Support For Nouveau With GNOME Mutter  Phoronix

Adding to the long list of improvements to find with next year's KDE Plasma 6.0 release is better file/folder searching with the "Recent Files" search area...