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Zunaid Ali  How-To Geek

Merged overnight were the perf subsystem tooling updates for the Linux 6.6 merge window that is set to close later on Sunday...

AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

How to install Chrome on Ubuntu  XDA Developers

The LoongArch CPU port is seeing a number of new kernel features enabled with Linux 6.6 as well as seeing some new hardware features wired up such as for Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) and allowing LSX/LASX instruction use in kernel-space...

LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation  Phoronix

Linux Operating System Market Analysis Report 2023-2030 | 121 Pages Report  Benzinga

Back in 2021 Samsung engineers posted KSMBD as an in-kernel SMB3 server alternative to the likes of the user-space Samba server. KSMBD merged into Linux 5.15 as an experimental SMB server while after two years of fixes and other improvements has now dropped its "experimental" marking...

KSMBD Declared Stable - No Longer "Experimental" - In Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Run GUI Applications as Containers with x11docker  The New Stack

A new version of DXVK-NVAPI is now available, the NVIDIA public NVAPI interface implemented atop DXVK for use by Direct3D games running on Valve's Steam Play (Proton). DXVK-NVAPI allows for NVIDIA DLSS for Vulkan / D3D11 / D3D12, NVIDIA Reflex support, PhysX, and other NVIDIA features to be enabled for popular Windows games running on Linux...

DXVK-NVAPI 0.6.4 Implements HDR Support Via DXVK  Phoronix

The GNOME 45 release candidate is now available for testing ahead of the desktop's stable release later this month...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his newest weekly development summary as the developers work toward releasing Plasma 6.0 in February...

FreeBSD 14 Beta 1 is available this weekend for helping to test out this major BSD operating system update that should debut as stable before the end of October...

Here's how to get PAYDAY 3 Beta to work on Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Software Market Size 2023 | Data-Driven Insights with Adapting to Rapid Changes by Top Players till  Benzinga

Meet the Guy Preserving the New History of PC Games, One Linux ...  Slashdot

Linux Fu: Build A Better Ls  Hackaday

Earlier this year I wrote about Microsoft working on their first Vulkan extension and today it finally debuted within the Vulkan 1.3.264 spec update...