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Teen dream team reboots Rolling Rhino into Rhino Linux  The Register

JSAUX cancels current Steam Deck Dock with RGB, after competitor pinched it  GamingOnLinux

Last week Intel began shipping their 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors. As noted in that launch-day article last week, unfortunately I wasn't able to deliver my usual Linux performance review in time due to hitting some DDR5 issues with my test platform, but those have now been resolved with a new Z790 motherboard. So as the first of my Raptor Lake Linux benchmarks, here is a look at how the top-end Core i9 13900K performs against the AMD Ryzen 7000 series on Ubuntu Linux along with the older Intel/AMD processors.

Intel Core i9 13900K Linux Benchmarks - Performing Very Well On Ubuntu Review  Phoronix

Lemonduck Cryptojacking Botnet Reveals Ongoing API  Security Intelligence

Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2022.10 Rolling ISOs Updated with Linux Kernel 6.0 by Default  9to5Linux

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Use Your Android Phone as a Speaker for Your Windows, Mac, or Linux Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

KDE Plasma 5.26.2 Disables Animated Wallpaper Feature on X11 Due to Severe Memory Leak  9to5Linux

In recent months there has been a lot of RADV ray-tracing optimizations and improvements for maturing the ray-tracing support by this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa. The RADV ray-tracing performance is about to take another step forward with a pending merge request providing a PLOC BVH builder that can improve the Quake II RTX performance by around 33%...

EA begins swapping out Origin for EA app on Steam  GamingOnLinux

How to Check the Maximum RAM Capacity of a Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Check the Maximum RAM Capacity of a Computer  MUO - MakeUseOf

Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition upgraded with full Linux / Steam Deck compatibility  GamingOnLinux

With the recent Linux 6.1 merge window there sadly weren't any Nouveau Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver improvements for getting the RTX 30 "Ampere" OpenGL support working yet with the mainline kernel even with RTX 40 series having launched. Needless to say, there also wasn't any progress on the re-clocking front for getting the GTX 900 series and later running in a performant manner on this open-source driver. But the Nouveau developers at Red Hat haven't simply been idling but rather have been working on the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) support for improving the RTX 20 "Turing" support and newer...

Nouveau Linux DRM Driver Making Progress On NVIDIA GSP Support  Phoronix

Rakuten Symphony and CIQ bring back open source and open community to Open RAN deployments with CentOS Successor, Rocky Linux  TelecomTV

An updated version of the Rust "gccrs" front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was sent out today for review. The GCC Rust "v3" patches address developer comments raised during earlier review as they try to get this new Rust programming language support merged in time for GCC 13...

A change proposal drafted for next year's Fedora 40 is looking at "porting Fedora to modern C" by ensuring the contained C source code of packages is compliant with strict C99 compilers...