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Axiom Verge 2 lands on Steam with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft and Canonical bring native .NET 6 to Linux starting with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Neowin

The latest partnership between Microsoft and Canonical is an announcement today of native .NET availability for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS hosts as well as containers...

Top 10 popular Linux distros in August 2022 - Linux Shout  Linux Shout

Distroshare Ubuntu Imager, never makes an iso - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

AMD CPU Microcode Loading On Linux Being Fixed Up To Be Per-Thread  Phoronix

Up to this point loading updated CPU microcode on AMD processors under Linux has checked just to ensure every physical CPU core was loaded with the new microcode but not sibling threads for SMT processors. While logically that makes sense, it turns out some AMD microcode updates do carry out per-thread modifications that means the microcode updating needs to be carried out on every thread. A Linux fix is on its way to the kernel to adjust that behavior...

NVIDIA Ampere GA103 Support For Nouveau Being Sent In For Linux 6.0  Phoronix

As part of today's "drm-misc-fixes" pull request, NVIDIA Ampere GA103 GPU support is set to be added to the Nouveau DRM driver with Linux 6.0...

Following Sunday's release of Linux 6.0-rc1, yesterday saw the release of 6.0-rc1-rt1 as the set of patches for providing real-time kernel support atop the upstream code-base. There is just roughly 50 patches to go until the PREEMPT_RT functionality is mainlined!..

The simplicity and complexity of using quotes on Linux  Network World

Ahead of the upcoming openSUSE/SUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP), whether to raise the x86_64 micro-architecture feature level required by the Linux OS continues to be evaluated and what options there are for making use of newer x86_64 instruction set extensions without necessarily forcing tightened CPU requirements / eliminating old hardware support...

NVIDIA Jetpack 5.0.2 release supports Ubuntu 20.04, Jetson AGX Orin  CNX Software

Couch-gaming Linux distro ChimeraOS 34 released  GamingOnLinux

When it comes to Linux on Arm laptops the recent excitement has been around the Asahi Linux porting work for the Apple M2 MacBooks and Linux 6.0 supporting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 and the flagship Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Arm laptop. Launched a few years ago though was the Lenovo Yoga C630 powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 and thanks now to the work of Linaro that older Arm laptop is seeing Linux support improvements...

Lenovo Yoga C630 Snapdragon Laptop Seeing Fresh Linux Improvements  Phoronix

Steam finally gets easier to grab free stuff  GamingOnLinux

How To Fix "Rmdir: Directory Not Empty" Error In Linux  Tech News Today

How to run Windows apps on Linux Mint with PlayOnLinux  AddictiveTips

Canonical/Microsoft Partnership Puts .NET 6 into Ubuntu Linux  Visual Studio Magazine