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Why VDI Makes Sense for Hard-Core UNIX & Linux Engineering ...  ENGINEERING.com

The Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation that was merged last year into Mesa 22.3 has been an extremely promising effort. One of the issues though is that with the current mainline state inside Mesa has lacked support for working with AMD Radeon GPUs via the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, but that is now coming to fruition...

Linux Foundation Welcomes New Open Source Projects from Peraton Labs to Scale 5G Security  Yahoo Finance

Linux Foundation Welcomes New Open Source Projects from ...  PR Newswire

The x86 CPU updates have been merged for the Linux 6.3 kernel that include a few new features worth mentioning for AMD and Intel customers...

Intel LKGS, AMD Automatic IBRS & Caching AMD Debug Registers Merged For Linux 6.3  Phoronix

iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Mini R Appliance with Linux-based ...  insideHPC

A Phoronix reader pointed out that there are initial code that landed for adding RISC-V processor support to Microsoft's .NET runtime...

HID-BPF Ready For Linux 6.3 Along With Steam Deck Controller ...  Phoronix

The HID subsystem updates for Linux 6.3 have been submitted and they contain a number of exciting input updates for this spring 2023 kernel version from the introduction of HID-BPF to native Steam Deck controller interface handling...

Linux Operating System Market Growth Research 2023-2027: by ...  Digital Journal

While Ubuntu Linux hasn't provided Flatpak support out-of-the-box due to their preference of using their own Snap app packaging/distribution format, Ubuntu flavors/spins have to this point been able to pre-install Flatpak support if they desired. However, for the 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" cycle and moving forward, Ubuntu flavors will no longer be permitted to install Flatpak packages by default...

Ubuntu Flavors/Spins Will No Longer Be Able To Install Flatpak By Default  Phoronix

Tailoring your Linux command prompt  Network World

A week after seeing X.Org display driver updates for old Trident and S3 Graphics hardware, a new release of xf86-video-ark is now available that provides the open-source UMS display driver support for old ARK Logic hardware. ARK Logic only lasted through the 1990's as a purveyor of PCI video cards...

Computop debuts three new Linux-based payment terminals  Finextra

As part of the Linux networking updates for the Linux 6.3 cycle in addition to the BIG TCP support for IPv4 that can yield higher throughput and lower latency, another networking change worth pointing out is the introduction of the "ath12k" driver for Qualcomm WiFi 7 hardware support...

Linux 6.3 Adds ath12k Driver For Qualcomm WiFi 7 Hardware Support  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Reacts to Poorly-Executed Pull Requests for Linux 6.3  It's FOSS News

Microsoft .NET 8 bolsters Linux support  InfoWorld