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Street Fighter 6 Proton update brings fixes for Steam Deck & Linux  Dexerto

There's been a Fedora 39 proposal under evaluation for boosting the kernel's vm.max_map_count to help with some Windows games on Steam Play. Though concerns were raised that bumping this kernel tunable too high may not be wise. As such, further testing is to happen for tuning Fedora's stock vm.max_map_count value...

Fedora To Further Evaluate vm.max_map_count Tuning For Better ...  Phoronix

DeckHD: Waitlist open for upgraded Steam Deck screen at $99  Dexerto

How to quickly make minor changes to complex Linux commands  Network World

Allianz ditches mainframe for scale and innovation  CIO

Nearly forty years after the MIDI digital music protocol was first introduced, in 2020 the MIDI 2.0 protocol was announced as a major overhaul for this widely used standard by musical devices. A big patch series sent out today prepares the Linux kernel sound drivers for MIDI 2.0...

Big Patch Series Prepares The Linux Audio Drivers For MIDI 2.0  Phoronix

Intel's open-source Mesa Vulkan Video driver "ANV" has added support for H.265 (HEVC) video decoding...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds H.265 Video Decoding Support  Phoronix

How to install Basemap Python Library in Ubuntu Linux  H2S Media

Linux security breaches target its users  TechHQ

How to Set up a Minecraft Server on Linux  Beebom

AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On ...  Phoronix

The Sort Command: A Beginner's Guide to Using Linux's Best Organizer  Linux Journal

How to Install zsh and Oh My Zsh on Linux  Beebom

Global Linux-based Set Top Box Market Size, Scope and Forecast ...  Cottonwood Holladay Journal

Terragraph, Evenstar software moves over to the Linux Foundation  FierceWireless

Bug bounty programs setup by large corporations to reward and recognize security researchers for properly reporting new bugs and security vulnerabilities is a great concept, but in practice isn't always handled well. Security researcher Adam Zabrocki recently shared the troubles he encountered in the bug bounty handling at Google for Chrome OS and in turn for Intel with it having been an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability...

How to Improve Gaming Performance on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf