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The biggest hindrance for using Intel Arc Graphics for Linux gaming has been the lack of Vulkan sparse support as needed for running many newer Windows DirectX 12 games atop Valve's Steam Play with Proton using VKD3D-Proton. Intel recently did implement Vulkan sparse support for ANV in Mesa 23.3 but it only works with their yet-to-be-upstreamed and still-experimental Xe kernel driver. But now Intel Linux graphics driver engineers have managed to pull off a solution for getting the sparse resources supported while using the existing i915 kernel DRM driver...

It was a decade ago that a security researcher commented on X.Org Server security being even "worse than it looks" and that the GLX code for example was "80,000 lines of sheer terror" and hundreds of bugs being uncovered throughout the codebase. In 2023 new X.Org security vulnerabilities continue to be uncovered, two of which were made public today and date back to X11R2 code from the year 1988...

X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 ...  Phoronix

Mastering User and Permission Management: Fortifying Your Linux Bastion  Linux Journal

13 main things in which Linux OS can be more convenient for you ...  Redditch Standard

elementary OS 7.1 Linux distribution focuses on privacy, inclusivity ...  BetaNews

How to create Samba share on Linux for guests to access on your network  ZDNet

La DAW profesional Studio One llega a Linux en versión beta para Ubuntu  MuyLinux

AMD Ryzen Powered Framework Laptop Linux Testing Held Up By BIOS Issue  Phoronix

Today the review embargo lifts on the first AMD-powered Framework laptop. There's one of the AMD Framework laptops in the lab for Linux testing and benchmarking but unfortunately no review for launch day due to being held up by a BIOS regression and thus unable to properly utilize accelerated graphics until a new BIOS revision is made available in the coming days...

GNU Binutils has added support for the ARCv3 32-bit and 64-bit CPU architecture...

GNU Binutils Lands Support For ARCv3 32-bit & 64-bit Architecture  Phoronix

Rust bindings are coming to the Linux kernel's workqueue (WQ) infrastructure that is used for deferring work to a kernel thread for asynchronous process execution...

Rust Bindings For Kernel Workqueues Coming To Linux 6.7  Phoronix

Giang Vinh Loc Creates "the World's Worst Linux PC" Using an Arduino UNO R3 and Its ATmega328P  Hackster.io

The Linux Foundation and Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS ...  PR Newswire

The Linux Foundation Launches New Event: AI.dev: Open Source ...  PR Newswire

As written about last month, AMD Linux engineers have been working on PMF Linux driver support for a "Smart PC Solutions Builder". The AMD Smart PC Solutions Builder feature is intended to provide OEMs with more control over system power/performance policies. It looks like systems making use of this feature are already to the marketplace or imminent with AMD having already landed the PMF firmware...

AMD PMF Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For Smart PC ...  Phoronix

Finally! The Popular DAW "Studio One" Adds Linux Support  It's FOSS News