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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the Linux 6.4 kernel and it ended up being a net reduction in the number of lines of code as a result of ditching two outdated USB drivers...

Linux 6.4 Spring Cleaning: Ditching Two Old USB Drivers  Phoronix

As expected following yesterday's AMD Git activity, ROCm 5.5 was officially released overnight as AMD's latest version of their open-source GPU compute stack that is their alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA or Intel's oneAPI / Level Zero...

The Device Mapper "DM" subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel and it includes some notable performance optimizations...

Linux 6.4 Lands Concurrent I/O Performance Optimizations For Device Mapper  Phoronix

Last week System76 released System76-Scheduler 2.0 as their Rust-written Linux desktop scheduler that serves as a user-space daemon to dynamically manage process priorities to favor performance and responsiveness. That's now been succeeded by a v2.0.1 update with a few more features and improvements...

How to install ExpressVPN on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

Last year DreamWorks announced they would be open-sourcing their award-winning MoonRay renderer. Back in March that dream was realized with OpenMoonRay being published for this renderer that has been used for films like Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, The Bad Guys, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and other films. OpenMoonRay 1.1 is now available as the first update to this professional renderer since it was open-sourced last quarter...

New SUSE CEO starts work as enterprise Linux firm eyes the future  The Stack

Embedded Linux Market (2023-2031) Current Status: Regional ...  Digital Journal

How to install software on Linux using Snap (and why you should)  ZDNet

OpenJS Foundation Receives Largest One-Time Government ...  InvestorsObserver