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Back in August an Intel engineer posted a patch series to help Linux on Intel hybrid CPUs with Hypr Threading. That work benefiting newer Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors is around avoiding unnecessary migrations within SMT domains. Finally an updated version of that patch series has now been posted as this Intel hybrid improvement works its way toward the kernel...

Sid Meier's Civilization VI gets a 'Leader Pass', breaks it on Linux and macOS  GamingOnLinux

Sid Meier's Civilization VI gets a 'Leader Pass', breaks it on Linux and macOS  GamingOnLinux

OBS Studio 29.0 Promises Media Key Support on Linux, AMD/Intel AV1 Encoder Support  9to5Linux

Orange Pi Maker Plans to Release an Arch-based Linux Distro Soon  It's FOSS News

Proton 7.0-5 Adds Support for More Games to Play on Linux, Lots of Improvements  9to5Linux

Proton 7.0-5 Promises Support for More Games to Play on Linux, Lots of Improvements  9to5Linux

Over the past year since being the first to report on Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) for license-activated hardware features with future CPUs, we've been left to wonder all what will be incorporated into this controversial Software Defined Silicon. Intel recently shared that SDSi will be marketed as Intel On Demand and now they have published a web page outlining more about this after-purchase upgrades for activating extra processor features...

Valve has officially released Proton 7.0-5 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for enjoying countless Windows games on Linux, most notably now with the Steam Deck. Valve has also introduced "Proton Next" as their new testing grounds for future Proton updates...

Proton 7.0-5 Gets More Games Running On Linux & The Steam Deck  Phoronix

NVIDIA driver 515.86.01 fixes Spider-Man Remastered, plus black screen issues on RTX 30  GamingOnLinux

It was just a little more than 24 hours ago that SDL 2.26 released for this widely-used library by cross-platform games and other software for abstracting software/hardware interfaces. With SDL 2.26 released, SDL 3.0 is now in development. One of the first stages of that big Simple DirectMedia Layer update is removing a lot of old platform code and other obsolete targets...

SDL3 Begins Dumping A Lot Of Old Code: GLES1, OS/2, DirectFB, WinRT, NaCl & More  Phoronix

PoCL 3.1 is nearing release as the "Portable Computing Language" that is most known for serving as a CPU-based OpenCL implementation but via its LLVM usage also allows supporting OpenCL execution atop NVIDIA CUDA and other targets...

JSAUX M.2 SSD Steam Deck Docking Station gets a sale, adding a 65W charger too  GamingOnLinux

OBS Studio 29 Beta 1 has been released as the newest test version for this widely-used, cross-platform open-source software for screen-casting and screen-recording purposes. OBS Studio 29 most notably is adding AV1 hardware-accelerated encoding for Intel Arc Graphics and AMD Radeon GPUs...

OBS Studio 29 Beta Brings AV1 Encode For AMD & Intel GPUs  Phoronix

Tails 5.7 Releases With "Metadata Cleaner" Tool  It's FOSS News

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC gets upstream Linux support  CNX Software

Windows Subsystem for Linux with GUI apps launches for Windows 10  Ars Technica