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Heroic Games Launcher gets a big Hotfix to clean up some issues  GamingOnLinux

Back in October AMD sent out their initial Zen 4 "znver4" enablement for the GCC compiler. That initial Zen 4 support was since merged for GCC 13 but that initial enablement carried over the cost tables from Zen 3 and didn't do much in the way of tuning but rather just flipping on the new instructions supported by the Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 9004 series processors. Today there is finally some juicy tuning patches being sent out for GCC...

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying bug that can reboot your Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Death Stranding Director's Cut has an annoying issue that can reboot your Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Valheim: Mistlands is out now with an animated trailer  GamingOnLinux

The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory out now as the game is split up  GamingOnLinux

The GCC Rust front-end that provides very preliminary support for the Rust programming language atop the GNU Compiler Collection is now cleared for merging to the mainline codebase!..

MineClone2 version 0.81.0 (free Minecraft-like) for Minetest out now  GamingOnLinux

Xtra-PC Reviews - Is It A Scam Or Legit? Mut Read Before You Buy!  Outlook India

Fanatical running a winter festival of game bundles, like a Steam Deck Verified Bundle  GamingOnLinux

FEX-Emu is the open-source software project working on speedy x86/x86_64 software emulation on AArch64. FEX-Emu is one of the leading options for running x86 binaries on 64-bit Arm and has matured enough for allowing Linux games and Steam Play titles to run on Arm. FEX 2212 is out as the newest shiny feature update to this promising software...

One of the big undertakings this year within the (open)SUSE camp has been the YaST team's work on D-Installer as their next-generation operating system installer. This week they have published a new prototype of this installer with more functionality now in place...

openSUSE's D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration  Phoronix

LibreOffice vs FreeOffice: Comparing Popular Free Office Suites  It's FOSS

FEX-Emu 2212 Improves x86_64 Game Support On Arm, Now Supports Older Radeon GPUs  Phoronix

NVIDIA talks up RTX IO with GDeflate (used in DirectStorage 1.1) to speed up games  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of LibreOffice 7.5 expected to be released in February, today marks the availability of the first alpha build available for testing...

LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha Released For Testing - Better Dark & High Contrast Theme Support  Phoronix

For FreeBSD users not yet on the FreeBSD 13 stable series, FreeBSD 12.4 is now available as the newest point release to that N-1 series...

The post How to Find Linux OS Name and Kernel Version You Are Running first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

There are several ways of knowing the version of Linux you are running on your machine as well as your distribution name and kernel version plus some extra information that you may probably want

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