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Following last week's start of the i915 DRM-Next changes intended for Linux 6.2, an initial batch of drm-intel-gt-next feature patches have now also been mailed in to DRM-Next for staging ahead of that next Linux kernel cycle. Notable with today's pull request is a lot of DG2/Alchemist improvements...

Linux 6.2 Preparing Intel HuC, OA, PS64 & Sensor Monitoring For Arc Graphics  Phoronix

Elon Musk completes Twitter takeover, Nextcloud to ship their own social network app  GamingOnLinux

Get a free copy of Jazz Jackrabbit 2 in the GOG Halloween Sale  GamingOnLinux

How to List Environment Variables on Linux  How-To Geek

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 31st, 2022, “Halloween Edition”  9to5Linux

Decky Loader for Steam Deck (plugin loader) gets fixed up for newer SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Intel Core i5 13600K Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Last week I looked at the Intel Core i9 13900K performance under Linux while today the focus is on the Core i5 13600K. The Core i5 13600K is a 14-core / 20-thread processor (6 P cores + 8 E cores), up from 6 P cores + 4 E cores with the prior generation Core i5 12600K. The Core i5 13600K has a recommended customer price of $319~329, which is indeed being honored among Internet retailers and with robust availability. Here is an initial look at how the Core i5 13600K "Raptor Lake" is running under Ubuntu Linux.

Better Linux support for OneXPlayer coming, likely for SteamOS like Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

How to View AVIF Images in Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros  It's FOSS

Classic Unreal Tournament lives on with a new OldUnreal upgrade, 64bit now on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Portmaster 1.0 Release Marks it as a Solid Open-Source Application Firewall for Privacy-Focused Users  It's FOSS News

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has been enjoying many performance optimizations and other improvements in recent months around its ray-tracing capabilities. Merged today is another significant optimization to better the Radeon Vulkan ray-tracing support and coming days ahead of AMD's RDNA3 announcement...

As part of Intel's compiler enablement work for Sierra Forest and Grand Ridge CPUs, support for x86_64 AVX-NE-CONVERT is the latest feature being merged into GCC Git in time for GCC 13...

GCC 13 Compiler Merges Support For Intel AVX-NE-CONVERT  Phoronix

GNU Make 4.4 is now available as the first major release in more than two and a half years. GNU Make 4.4 has many improvements to this important build automation tool that is still widely used by countless free software projects...

GNU Make 4.4 Released With Numerous Improvements, Deprecates Amiga OS  Phoronix

Global Market Study on Linux Operating System with CAGR 19.5%  Digital Journal

Xfce’s Apps Update for October 2022: Thunar Gets More New Features Towards Xfce 4.18  9to5Linux