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Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale

Phoronix - Fri, 03/17/2023 - 01:29
Valve today started their first-ever Steam Spring Sale that runs through next week. In addition to sales on games, this is the first time Valve has offered the Steam Deck at a discounted price...

Amazon Linux 2023 Reaches GA, Built Atop Fedora

Phoronix - Fri, 03/17/2023 - 00:36
AWS released Amazon Linux 2023 "AL2023" as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is available to Amazon EC2 customers...

Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 03/17/2023 - 00:00
Another set of drm-misc-next patches were submitted today for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.4 merge window kicks off this spring...

AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 Released With Various Fixes, TMZ For RDNA2 & Newer

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 20:55
It's been nearly one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q1.2 as AMD's latest open-source Vulkan driver code drop while today it was replaced by AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 as what will likely be their last Vulkan driver update for the quarter...

Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

Phoronix - Thu, 03/16/2023 - 20:30
The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was archived/suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers...

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