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Universal Blue is a new paradigm for the Linux desktop and it's brilliant  ZDNet

Universal Blue is a new paradigm for the Linux desktop and it's brilliant  ZDNet

How to Install Linux in a Proxmox Virtual Environment  MUO - MakeUseOf

Back in 2019 Valve developers introduced the ACO compiler back-end within Mesa for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler has been instrumental in helping RADV perform very well for Linux gaming both with Vulkan native titles as well as games going the route of DirectX to Vulkan via DXVK and VKD3D with Proton (Steam Play). On and off there's been talk and work towards bringing ACO to RadeonSI Gallium3D for OpenGL while now there is some new work on this front...

Renewed Work For ACO Compiler Support With The RadeonSI ...  Phoronix

The GNU Compiler Collection 13 codebase has no more P1 bugs, which are regressions of the highest priority, and as such the GCC 13 codebase was branched today with plans of issuing GCC 13.1-rc1 likely in the next day and hopefully releasing GCC 13.1 as the first stable release of the GCC 13 series next week...

Stardew Valley set for another update in v1.6  GamingOnLinux

Report: Most IT Teams Can’t Fix Open Source Software Security  DevOps.com

For the first time ever, Lockbit ransomware gang targets Macs  Times of India

TCS | Muggie van Staden: Linux fans should learn to trust Microsoft  TechCentral

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Linux Performance  Phoronix

With the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, several Phoronix Premium supporters expressed interest in seeing how well the Windows 11 vs. Linux performance compared for this Zen 4 3D V-Cache processor. Given those requests, here are some CPU/system benchmarks looking at the performance of Windows 11 Professional against Ubuntu 23.04 in its near-final state on the 7800X3D desktop.

MineClone2 v0.83 out now, the sandbox game for Minetest inspired ...  GamingOnLinux

Lueur blends city-building with survival from a former Ubisoft ...  GamingOnLinux

Sick of GNOME, Snap and Flatpak? You might like Linux Lite, but beware rough edges  The Register

Moore Threads was established in 2020 to create domestic GPU solutions in China with their first products having been announced last year. Most of the talk around Moore Threads "MThreads" GPUs have been for Windows but they are working on Linux support to at least some extent...

Chinese GPU Vendor Moore Threads Contributing To VA-API ...  Phoronix

Darkest Dungeon got a free total conversion with Black Reliquary  GamingOnLinux

Try out a free prologue of Shogun Showdown right now  GamingOnLinux

In addition to Linux 6.4 bringing some early work around the Apple M2 device support that isn't yet ready for end-users but begins laying the foundation for supporting the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini, another set of Apple changes have now been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle...