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System76 is kicking off the new year by preparing to release a new AMD-powered Linux laptop, an updated Pangolin model...

System76 to Unveil AMD-Powered Pangolin Linux Laptop with 144Hz Display  9to5Linux

How to set a Sudo administrator password on Steam Deck  Dexerto

Unity 7.7 Desktop Environment to Get a UnityX Flavor with Wayland Support  9to5Linux

Dwarf Fortress too retro? Songs of Syx is worth looking at with ...  GamingOnLinux

Intel today officially announced the Core i9 13900KS as what they claim to be the "world's fastest desktop processor" with up to a 6.0GHz maximum turbo frequency...

Mega Man-like side-scroller action game Super Alloy Ranger now ...  GamingOnLinux

GOverlay app for managing the MangoHud overlay gets a bunch of ...  GamingOnLinux

Pokemon-like 'Coromon' finally has big FPS problem fixed for Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Being introduced to the Debian package archive this week is accel-config as Intel's new user-space component for configuring the DSA accelerators found with the new 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors...

Linux Kernel 6.0 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux 6.1  9to5Linux

Discourse 3.0 is an Amazing Release With Much-Needed Feature ...  It's FOSS News

Steam & Steam Deck Beta improves controller configurator plus ...  GamingOnLinux

AMD Updates Linux Patches For Automatic IBRS On Zen 4  Phoronix

Since early November AMD has been working on Linux patches for Automatic IBRS. AutoIBRS is a new Zen 4 CPU feature intended to provide better performance than generic Retpolines as part of the Spectre V2 mitigations. Two months later the Linux AutoIBRS patches still haven't been merged yet but up to their sixth revision...

AMD today sent in a batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver fixes for the in-development Linux 6.2. Notable with this week's AMD graphics driver fixes are a few pertaining to the new Radeon RX 7000 series / RDNA3 hardware...

AMD Sends In Radeon RX 7000 Series Fixes For Linux 6.2  Phoronix

With the Intel VT-d 4.0 specification there is performance monitoring "PerfMon" infrastructure introduced. A new patch series from Intel is preparing for IOMMU performance monitoring with the Linux kernel code...

Intel Preparing New Linux "PerfMon" Performance Monitoring ...  Phoronix

In addition to the CentOS Hyperscale SIG making great progress on adapting CentOS Stream for hyperscaler needs, at the opposite end of the table is the CentOS Automotive SIG with their "AutoSD" platform they continue working on adapting to make CentOS Stream suitable for use within vehicles...