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Plasma 6 Can Now Play A Sound When Plugging In USB Devices

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 17:58
Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1'2024...

Ebook: Introducing LFCS Certification Preparation eBook

Tecmint - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 12:56
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For years, certifications in the Information Technology world have helped job candidates demonstrate their skills to potential employers. In the Linux world, this is as

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Wine 8.13 Released With Three Dozen Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 07:53
In addition to Proton 8.0-3 being released today for Steam Play, Wine 8.13 is out today as the latest bi-weekly release of this software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 04:14
Proton 8.0-3 is rolling out on Steam that powers Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux. Proton 8.0-3 brings many fixes and gets more Windows games now running gracefully on Linux desktop systems as well as the Steam Deck...

GPU VA Manager To Land In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 07/22/2023 - 02:33
The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address "VA" Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements...

Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs

Phoronix - Fri, 07/21/2023 - 23:33
The most common request from my recent ROG Ally benchmarking with the Ryzen Z1 SoC and also the Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC testing has been wanting to know how these Zen 4 mobile processors compete with Apple's M2 on Linux. Well, for those curious, here are some initial performance figures of the Apple M2 in a MacBook Air running Asahi Linux up against the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 7840U SoCs on Linux.

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