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Record Audio in Linux With Audacity (and Reduce Noise)  It's FOSS

BITBLAZE Titan BM15 Arm Linux laptop features Baikal-M1 processor  CNX Software

Those on rolling-release Linux distributions that are quick to adapt to new toolchain updates are finding Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) enabled games breaking when running on the recently released Glibc 2.36. The breakage stems from the DT_HASH section being dropped in GNU C Library but EAC being among the few software still expecting that section rather than DT_GNU_HASH...

What Is Virtual Memory on Linux? How to Manage It  MUO - MakeUseOf

What Is Virtual Memory on Linux? How to Manage It  MUO - MakeUseOf

Wine 7.15 is out a day late as the newest development snapshot of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine is also what serves as the base for Valve's Proton that powers Steam Play...

Windows compatibility layer Wine version 7.15 out now  GamingOnLinux

Humble Bundle have another interesting set of games in the Tactical Combat Bundle  GamingOnLinux

With the Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" mobile processors most exciting about these Zen 3+ SoCs has been the energy efficiency improvements and moving from Vega to RDNA2 graphics as with the Radeon 680M found on the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U that I have been running many Linux benchmarks on over the past several weeks. For those wondering if it pays off moving to a newer Linux kernel or Mesa version with Radeon 680M integrated graphics, here are some reference benchmarks I recently conducted...

AMD Radeon 680M Graphics Benchmarks Across Various Linux Kernel, Mesa Versions  Phoronix

"Together We Can Do So Much": A Beginner's Tribute to Linux Community  hackernoon.com

3 Ways to install Steam on Linux Mint or LMDE  Linux Shout

Yes, You Can Use The Steam Deck As A Computer (Here’s How)  Kotaku

Linux Gets New Patch To Fix AMD Retbleed Mitigation - STIBP Needed With IBPB  Phoronix

Sent out this morning is a Linux kernel "fix" that now enabled STIBP when using the IBPB mode for Retbleed mitigations on AMD processors. In other words, more protections needed for this enhanced mode of Retbleed mitigation...

Last week was the main set of RISC-V updates for Linux 6.0 that included improving Svpbmt support, a more robust default kernel configuration, and other improvements. A secondary set of RISC-V CPU architecture updates has now been merged for Linux 6.0...

RISC-V Lands New Extensions In Linux 6.0  Phoronix

It's been another busy summer week for KDE developers with many new features and fixes landing within this open-source desktop stack...

Spider-Man Remastered is awesome on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

A number of changes were merged into Linux 6.0 for benefiting virtualization when making use of VirtIO...