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NVIDIA 520.56.06 driver adds easier NVIDIA NGX updates for Wine / Proton  GamingOnLinux

Tuxedo Computers releases version 1.0 of its Ubuntu remix  The Register

With the GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards shipping today, NVIDIA has published their first R529 series Linux driver with initial support for the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" graphics cards...

NVIDIA 520.56.06 Linux Driver Released With OTA Updates For Proton/Wine NVIDIA NGX Build  Phoronix

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance Is Very Close On The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X  Phoronix

One of the leading test requests at Phoronix around my AMD Zen 4 Linux benchmarking has been some side-by-side comparisons against Microsoft Windows 11. While older, high core count AMD systems have particularly performed very well under Linux against Windows, with new hardware there is sometimes hiccups and various limitations with the at-launch support especially on the open-source Linux side. So for your viewing pleasure today are some initial AMD Ryzen 9 7950X benchmarks under Microsoft Windows 11 22H2 up against Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and a near-final development snapshot of the upcoming Ubuntu 22.10.

For those that have been holding off on upgrading to the Mesa 22.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers until the first point release arrives with any early fixes and fallout corrections, that v22.2.1 release is now available...

How to install Alacritty Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Linux Shout

The Unigine game and simulation 3D engine has released version 2.16 and with this update finally comes the much anticipated Vulkan and Direct3D 12 graphics API support...

Blender 3.4 3D Graphics Software Promises Native Wayland Support on Linux  9to5Linux

Among the many Rust-written projects that have been gaining steam in recent years has been uutils as a Rust-based replacement to GNU Coreutils that is commonly used on Linux systems. Out today is uutils 0.0.16 as the latest step in this Rust-replacement quest...

uutils 0.0.16 Released As Rust-Based GNU Coreutils Replacement  Phoronix

6 Kubernetes distributions leading the container revolution  InfoWorld

Best Lifestyle Software for Linux in 2022  BollyInside

Best Lifestyle Software for Linux in 2022  BollyInside

Not that you are likely to connect a CD/DVD drive to a RISC-V system in 2022+, but RISC-V's default kernel configuration with the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel is adding support for CD-ROM file-systems...

RISC-V Adds Support For CD-ROM Images To Its Default Linux 6.1 Kernel Configuration  Phoronix

Kernel Memory Sanitizer Lands For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

In addition to Linux 6.1 x86_64 defaulting to warning over W+X mappings and other security-minded improvements this merge window, another benefit of this next kernel is the mainlining of the Kernel Memory Sanitizer (KMSAN)...

The 64-bit Arm (ARM64 / AArch64) architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.1 merge window...