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Bash: A primer for more effective use of the Linux bash shell  Network World

It looks like Fedora could be taking on more mobile ambitions with a Phosh image now proposed for running that Wayland shell focused on smartphones and tablets while delivering a good GNOME-based experience. Separately, a change proposal is expected for also introducing a Fedora Linux image with KDE Plasma Mobile...

ChromeOS Redesigned shows us a possible future of Google's Linux-based operating system  BetaNews

NVIDIA PhysX 5.1 SDK goes open source  GamingOnLinux

Clonezilla Live 3.0.2 Disk Cloning/Imaging Utility Released with Linux Kernel 6.0  9to5Linux

Back in 2019 NVIDIA open-sourced the PhysX 4.1 SDK and was working on a PhysX 5.0 open-source code drop while we haven't heard anything more on the matter in the past two years. Coming out this morning as a surprise is the NVIDIA PhysX 5.1 SDK open-source release...

CachyOS: The Brand-New Friendly, Performance-Tuned Arch Linux Derivative  MUO - MakeUseOf

When it comes to new AMD AM5 motherboards featuring an X670 series chipset, one of the cheapest options right now is the ASRock X670E PG Lightning that retails for around $249 USD. I picked up one of these motherboards at launch and has been working out well on Linux for those wanting to build a cost-minded AMD Zen 4 desktop system.

Sonic Frontiers works on Steam Deck and Linux desktop although it has issues  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Teams PWA is Now Available for Linux Machines  Petri.com

Microsoft is Showing Ads in the Windows 11 Sign-Out Menu  Slashdot

New to the upcoming Mesa 22.3 release is Rusticl as a Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Mesa drivers. Rusticl supports OpenCL 3.0, handles OpenCL images and other features, works with multiple drivers, and is modern and maintained. Already among Mesa developers is a discussion that has begun around removing the older "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D implementation once Rusticl has firmly hit parity with that older, unmaintained state tracker...

It's been a long time since there has been much in the way of notable Nouveau DRM driver changes merged to the Linux kernel for improving the open-source NVIDIA graphics support. Fortunately, that is changing with Linux 6.2 set to receive a rather big update...

Big Nouveau Driver Update For Linux 6.2 To Improve Open-Source NVIDIA Support  Phoronix

Since the Linux 5.19 kernel there have been many reports on Twitter, Reddit, or forums, and elsewhere over open-source AMD Radeon driver users experiencing crashes that often then appear in the kernel log around fences timing out. A fix for this show-stopping bug for AMD gamers looks like it will be coming to the Linux 6.2 kernel...

Annoying AMD Linux Graphics Driver Crashes With "Timed Out Fences" Has A Fix Coming  Phoronix

Towards the end of October there finally came about a patch series fleshing out the "accel" subsystem for the Linux kernel in preparing this new subsystem/framework that builds atop the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code and is designed for all the up and coming AI accelerator drivers for the kernel. Given the number of accelerator drivers from different vendors eyeing mainline kernel adoption, this new compute accelerator framework is quickly being formed...

Linux's New Compute Accelerator Framework Quickly Taking Shape  Phoronix

The NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver that was started earlier this year and has been progressing nicely the past few months is starting to see work now on its own shader compiler where as up to this point has been relying on existing Nouveau Mesa code for code generation...

Heavy, man: Tuxedo puts out 2.2kg Stellaris AMD Gen 4  The Register