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In computing, encryption is a popular and most times the recommended technique of hiding information in a secretive format. GnuPG is one of the

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Debian's APT packaging tool that is also used by downstreams like Ubuntu has begun seeing initial support for "snapshots" introduced...

OBS Studio 29.1 is shipping today and it features AV1 and HEVC RTMP streaming support...

OBS Studio 29.1 Released with Support for Streaming AV1/HEVC over Enhanced RTMP  9to5Linux

Google has rolled out Chrome 113 to its stable channel that includes faster AV1 video encoding for video conference calls, WebGPU is finally rolling out to everyone, and other enhancements...

Proton 8.0-2 out for Linux / Steam Deck fixing the EA app (yes, again)  GamingOnLinux

5 Things to Do When Installing Ubuntu on Your PC  MUO - MakeUseOf

Less than a month has passed since Proton 8.0-1 shipped as the software that powers Valve's Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux. Already out today is the Proton 8.0-2...

Intel Progress On The IPU6 Linux Driver To Enable Web Camera Support With Newer Laptops  Phoronix

You may recall last year how several prominent upstream kernel developers recommended avoiding Intel's latest laptops for Linux use that bear their IPU6 MIPI camera over the lack of upstream open-source support. It's taken some months but the initial IPU6 Linux kernel driver patches are out for review and will hopefully make it to the mainline Linux kernel in the months ahead...

Rogue Legacy 2 has one final content update out now  GamingOnLinux

While distributions like Fedora Linux have been using Dbus-Broker for years already as their high performance D-Bus compatible implementation to, for Ubuntu 23.10 later this year is finally where it looks like Ubuntu will be transitioning to this better alternative to dbus-daemon...

AMD ROCm 5.5 Official: Several RDNA 3 Updates Including Better Radeon RX 7000 Support On Linux  Wccftech

Linux Mint 21.2 Makes Tooltips & Notifications More Colourful  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 21.2 Makes Tooltips & Notifications More Colourful  OMG! Ubuntu!

Combat Master is a cheesy indie free to play Call of Duty  GamingOnLinux

Seems the big Chinese surge on Steam is over - Steam Survey for ...  GamingOnLinux

A set of patches to the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver and Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver would allow more easily relaying information about the reasons why a GPU hang/reset occur so that the user-space software can be more informed about any issues...

FNA gets Direct3D 11 support on Linux using DXVK and vkd3d  GamingOnLinux

The USB/Thunderbolt changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel and it ended up being a net reduction in the number of lines of code as a result of ditching two outdated USB drivers...