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It's been just over one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 and this morning it's been succeeded by a new AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver release...

AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V ...  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.7 kernel on Sunday night...

Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week  Phoronix

SysJoker Malware Attacking Windows, Linux and Mac Users Abusing OneDrive  CybersecurityNews

While more applications continue enabling Wayland support and getting into a shape by default, the PCSX2 open-source PlayStation 2 emulator recently moved in the opposite direction: disabling Wayland support for their distributed builds...

PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default  Phoronix

Blue Recorder, Linux Screencast App, Ported to GTK4  OMG! Ubuntu!

Blue Recorder, Linux Screencast App, Ported to GTK4  OMG! Ubuntu!

Waddup Linux. A little history about Linux. | by Orion | Nov, 2023  Medium

Waddup Linux!. A little history about Linux. | by Orion | Nov, 2023  Medium

Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers this week sent out their first batch of drm-intel-next i915 DRM driver changes to DRM-Next of new material to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle...

Intel Begins Readying Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Tuxedo launches all-AMD Linux gaming laptop with Ryzen 7 7840HS and Radeon RX 7600M XT  VideoCardz.com

A Linux kernel mailing list discussion this holiday weekend that is seeing polarized views on the matter is around a new patch series proposed priority-based shutdown support for drivers/hardware...

Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support  Phoronix

10 best Linux App alternatives  XDA Developers

While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there's no signs of Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system...

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code  Phoronix

It has finally happened: PipeWire 1.0 has been released as this now very common software to the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams. With time it's proven to be a suitable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK while pushing forward the Linux desktop with its modern design and feature set...