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Camerctrls is a Neat Webcam Settings App for Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Jingle Jam 2022 Games Collection is live and another awesome deal  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Office in trouble in Germany due to GDPR  Ghacks

It's been a while since trying out the BSD operating systems on bleeding-edge hardware while a Phoronix Premium recently asked about the BSDs on Raptor Lake. Well, here are my initial experiences trying to run FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonflyBSD on the Intel Core i9 13900K desktop...

How to Visualize Ping Responses on Linux With gping  MUO - MakeUseOf

.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS  The Register

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2023  GamingOnLinux

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2023  GamingOnLinux

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2023  GamingOnLinux

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2023  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 22.3 open source graphics drivers released  GamingOnLinux

Victoria 3 is another clear hit for Paradox hitting half a million sales  GamingOnLinux

Linux Distro Reviews: Zorin OS  WebProNews

System76’s Rust-Based COSMIC Desktop Promises HDR Support, Smooth NVIDIA Experience  9to5Linux

NixOS 22.11 “Raccoon” Released with GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.26, and OpenSSL 3  9to5Linux

The past few months there has been a change proposal discussed around adding "-fno-omit-frame-pointer" to the default compilation flags for packages being built for Fedora Linux. Adding this option would improve the profiling/debug-ability of the packages but with possible performance implications. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now rejected this contentious change proposal...

While NVIDIA users have been enjoying hardware ray-tracing with the Blender 3D modelling software for years with the OptiX back-end and RTX GPUs, the ray-tracing support for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc Graphics is still coming together for this industry-standard, open-source 3D modelling software...

With November now in the books, here is a look back at the most popular original open-source/Linux content on Phoronix from the 245 original articles written by your's truly over the past month. It was an extremely exciting month given the launch of the AMD EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors with up to 96 cores per socket, AVX-512, and with all of the improvements meant outright insane generational improvement and currently slaughtering the competition. The Linux 6.1 kernel nearing the limelight, early development work on Linux 6.2, and the continued embracing of the Rust programming language by the open-source ecosystem all made for an interesting November...

AMD EPYC Genoa, Linux 6.1 & Rust Efforts Excited Linux Users In November  Phoronix

NixOS as the Linux distribution built atop the purely-functional and declarative Nix package manager is out with a new release to kickoff December...