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Ahead of the holidays there is a new Vulkan API spec update from The Khronos Group...

Check Out This Awesome Adwaita Theme for Steam Linux Client  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux on Apple Silicon Takes Giant Leap With Driver Updates  Tom's Hardware

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX & RX 7900 XT Arrive For Linux Testing  Phoronix

At the start of November AMD announced the Radeon RX 7900 series while these high-end RDNA3 graphics cards will go on sale next week. Both the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX are at Phoronix for Linux testing with AMD's fully open-source graphics driver stack while today the embargo expires on showing off the hardware.

Unciv the open source remake of Civilization V is heading to Steam  GamingOnLinux

EVERSPACE 2 developer gets a 1.65 million Euro grant from the German federal parliament  GamingOnLinux

Dwarf Fortress on Steam is a smash hit, devs confirm future plans (like Linux support)  GamingOnLinux

EA open source Fonttik, helps devs check text size & contrast — plus patent pledges  GamingOnLinux

Polychromatic for managing Razer devices on Linux v0.8 out now  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 21.1 now in Beta with full Flatpak support  GamingOnLinux

PHP 8.2 is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language primarily for web purposes...

PHP 8.2 Released With Readonly Classes, Random Extension  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.1 kernel set to be released this weekend, here is a look back at the prominent changes to find with this kernel. Linux 6.1 besides being the last kernel version of the year is all the more important in that it's expected to be the new Long Term Support (LTS) kernel...

The Most Interesting New Features For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

Thanks to the work led by Valve engineers on the open-source Linux graphics stack, Mesa 23.0 continues picking up new features for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver...

While Intel's GPU compute stack for Linux is fully open-source, one area where it still has room for improvement is getting it packaged up on more Linux distributions. The reference binaries published by Intel for their Compute-Runtime and Level Zero components are just Debian/Ubuntu packages but with time -- and as Arc Graphics and other hardware becomes available -- we are seeing more distributions taking a stab at offering up their own package builds...

Intel oneAPI Level Zero Being Packaged Up For Fedora  Phoronix

New Release of ODBC Driver for Dynamics 365 with macOS and Linux Versions  IT News Online

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Brief: In this tutorial, we explore 10 of the best PuTTY alternatives for SSH clients. Putty is one of the most popular and widely-used SSH and Telnet clients that allows users to log in

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