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Valve Officially Announces Counter-Strike 2

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 00:50
Following recent rumors and leaks, Valve today officially announced Counter-Strike 2 that they announce as the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike's history...

XWayland 23.1 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel, DMA-BUF v4 Feedback

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 00:00
Coincidentally landing on GNOME 44 release day is also XWayland 23.1, the newest version of this portion of the X.Org Server code that allows legacy X11 client applications/games to run atop Wayland environments. With XWayland 23.1 comes a number of shiny new features to continue to enhance the X11 experience on Wayland...

GNOME 44 Released With Many Desktop Enhancements

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 23:01
GNOME 44 is now officially out as the latest half-year update to this widely-used open-source desktop...

KDE XWayland Video Bridge Aims To Improve Linux Desktop Screen Sharing

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 22:26
KDE developers David Edmundson and Alex Poi have begun working on XWaylandVideoBridge as a new project to help improve Linux desktop screen sharing for X11-based applications that may try to share the contents of Wayland screens, such as could be the case for some software like Discord, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and others...

Mozilla Announces Mozilla.ai For "Trustworthy AI"

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 21:54
Mozilla announced today they are investing $30 million USD to build Mozilla.ai as a new start-up focused on "building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem."..

Canonical Preparing Updated Ubuntu Font For Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Wed, 03/22/2023 - 20:08
Canonical is preparing to ship an updated set of Ubuntu Font files for the Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" release but is hoping to see more user testing ahead of the official release next month...

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