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Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been leading the Panfrost open-source Arm Mali graphics driver reverse engineering effort the past half-decade is stepping down as maintainer of this driver as part of this also being her last day at Collabora...

NVIDIA Finally Working On A Linux Driver For Their 2017 SHIELD ...  Phoronix

NVIDIA Finally Working On A Linux Driver For Their 2017 SHIELD Controller  Phoronix

NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller back in 2017 and now in 2023 they are working to upstream their HD driver support for it...

How to Install Krita on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Back in 2021 saw work on CPU cluster-aware scheduling by HiSilicon engineers for Arm processors as well as Intel engineers with a focus on their Jacobsville platform being comprised of clusters of Atom cores. That x86 cluster-aware scheduling was enabled for capable Intel processors while now two years later is being extended for AMD processors...

Linux Cluster-Aware Scheduling Being Extended To AMD Processors  Phoronix

Just before Christmas Meson 1.0 was released for this widely-used, open-source software build system. Out today is Meson 1.1 as the newest feature update...

How to use KDE Plasma Places for a much more efficient desktop  ZDNet

How to Play Chess in Your Linux Terminal (With Multiplayer Support Over SSH)  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to find WSL home directory using Windows GUI?  H2S Media

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 16 Review: The Best Linux Laptop You ...  It's FOSS News

Mozilla has published the Firefox 112.0 binaries today ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling...

Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.3 today as the 54th release for this BSD operating system project...

PlanetPC XR mini PC dramatically fails to meet crowdfunding goals ...  Liliputing

Intel has released oneAPI Level Zero Loader 1.10 today, which implements the Level Zero v1.6 specification...

In time for the upcoming Mesa 23.1 branching and feature freeze, Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has enabled the graphics pipeline library "GPL" support by default with the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver...

While AMD Zen 4 "Dragon Range" and "Phoenix" laptops are imminent, for those using an older AMD Picasso laptop design from 2019, there are some new Linux fixes on the way for enhancing that older Zen+ experience...

AMD Has Some Linux Fixes For Older "Picasso" Ryzen Laptops On The Way  Phoronix

The Intel Media Driver 2023Q1 has been published as the newest feature release for Intel's open-source video acceleration driver providing VA-API support across generations of their integrated graphics as well as newer discrete graphics...