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Tachyum Runs Native Security-Enhanced Linux to Ensure Protection of Critical Infrastructure  Business Wire

Last week Valve launched their much anticipated Steam Deck Docking Station as the official "dock" for the Steam Deck to allow connecting up to two external displays, power, additional USB ports, and Gigabit Ethernet. I've been testing out the Steam Deck Docking Station and it's been working out well but on the pricier side compared to alternatives.

KDE Plasma 5.26 Is Here with New UI for Smart TVs, Improved Wayland Support, and More  9to5Linux

In this article we will try to teach you how Install Nemo File Manager in Linux. Nemo is a relatively new file manager that ships with Linux Mint by  BollyInside

The KDE community has just published Plasma 5.26 as the newest update to this open-source desktop environment and as the end of Plasma 5 feature development quickly approaches...

Foolish Mortals is an upcoming spooky point and click adventure  GamingOnLinux

Foolish Mortals is an upcoming spooky point and click adventure  GamingOnLinux

Foolish Mortals is an upcoming spooky point and click adventure  GamingOnLinux

While 2023 is quickly approaching and the Modula-2 programming language has since been succeeded by the Modula-3 and Oberon languages since the late 80's, GNU Modula-2 continues to be worked on as a front-end to the GNU Compiler Collection for this structured, procedural programming language...

VirtualBox 7.0 is out with their DirectX 11 support using DXVK  GamingOnLinux

AMD IOMMU v2 Page Tables Getting Wired Up For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

For more than a year AMD engineers have been working on IOMMU v2 page table support and with the in-development Linux 6.1 kernel the initial patches are finally being merged...

Kolide gives you real-time fleet visibility across Mac, Windows, and Linux, answering questions MDMs can't  Graham Cluley

The latest daily development builds of the Blender 3D modelling software have enabled native support for Wayland. If all goes well, the Blender 3.4 release coming up will ship with this native Wayland support for Linux...

MGLRU has successfully landed in Linux 6.1 as one of the best kernel innovations of the year to be mainlined. Along with that the new Maple Tree data structure was also merged...

MGLRU Merged For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

At last week's XDC 2022 conference, Google engineer Rob Clark presented on VirtGPU DRM Native Contexts and the potential there for much better performance - especially for gaming - within virtual machines than using API-level virtualization like with Virgl...

After 30 Years, a Second Language Comes to Linux Kernel  Analytics India Magazine

Linux 6.1 Finishes Gutting Out The Old a.out Code  Phoronix

Back in 2019 the Linux kernel finally deprecated a.out support for that format superseded by ELF long ago. Since earlier this year kernel developers moved ahead with beginning to remove a.out support, including the old x86 a.out support. Now with Linux 6.1 some lingering remnants of a.out are being cleared away...