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Lutris 0.5.13 Beta is out this weekend as the newest test release for this open-source game manager that makes it easier to install and play video games from multiple game stores, emulators, and integration with other services...

Lutris 0.5.13 Beta Released With Proton Support, Itch.io Integration  Phoronix

A Developer is Reimplementing GNU's Core Utilities in Rust - Slashdot  Slashdot

6 Ways elementary OS Improves Accessibility on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Several years ago the open-source "Hangover" project started as allowing Windows x86_64 and x86 programs to run on 64-bit ARM Linux by leveraging the upstream Wine software as well as QEMU. Hangover also saw work for allowing Windows programs to run on POWER9 Linux hardware and other architectures. The Hangover project has been on hiatus but is now back to being revived...

Hangover Project Restarted To Run Windows 32-bit/64-bit Apps On ...  Phoronix

The H.266 / Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was finalized back in 2020 and while the hardware acceleration is currently limited to a few SoCs with video decode, in the years ahead there will likely be plenty of content encoded in H.266/VVC. The Fraunhofer HHI group in Germany has been working to ensure capable open-source support around this video compression standard with their VVenC encoder and VVdeC decoder...

5 Of The Biggest Complaints And Regrets Steam Deck Owners ...  SlashGear

EndeavourOS Cassini Neo Released with Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS, Improved Installer  9to5Linux

There is already some AVX-512 optimizations for software contained within the FFmpeg multimedia library, but there is room for greater AVX-512 usage especially now with AMD supporting this Advanced Vector Extensions expansion and the latest Intel Xeon CPUs having little associated cost now with AVX-512 use...

New Steam Client Update Further Improves the Big Picture Mode, Fixes More Bugs  9to5Linux

Longtime Linux users likely have fond memories of the XMMS audio player from two decades ago. For those that enjoyed XMMS back in the day, Audacious continues being updated as a modern fork of XMMS...

Audacious 4.3 Beta Adds PipeWire Plugin, Restores GTK3 + Ships ...  Phoronix

KDE developers and users are very excited for Plasma 5.27 that will be making its stable debut next week and also serves as the last major release of the Plasma 5 series...

Why You Should Try Linux?  Medium

System76 Announces Redesigned 'Pangolin' AMD/Linux Laptop ...  Slashdot

Global and China Automotive Operating System (OS) Industry Report 2023: Foreign Leading Established Providers Boast Much Greater First-mover Advantages, and Chinese Players Go All Out to Catch Up  Yahoo Finance

Being worked on actively by a number of stakeholders in recent years has been Flang as a Fortran language front-end to the LLVM compiler stack. While not yet ready for general use, Flang has been making strides as well as showing some promising performance results...

How to Install a Supervised Home Assistant Server on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Royal ransomware spreads to Linux and VMware ESXi  TechRepublic