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Rust Programming Language To Land in Linux Kernel 6.1  Tom's Hardware

Linux Kernel 5.19.12 bug could damage Intel laptop displays  BleepingComputer

AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop  Phoronix

One of the rather elusive items on the Linux desktop is High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support... There's been code in the works for years but across desktops and drivers, it's still a long-term effort getting HDR support on the Linux desktop. Even going back to 2016, with NVIDIA's cross-platform driver code the Linux desktop remained the bottleneck. There is at least some ongoing work to address this long-term issue with AMD this week presenting on the topic...

Merged last month into Mesa 22.3 was Rusticl as a Rust-written OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D that is beginning to work with the open-source Radeon Linux driver, the Intel "Iris" Gallium3D driver, and others. This is also the first Rust-written component within the Mesa code-base. Karol Herbst of Red Hat who has led Rusticl development presented this week in Minnesota on this promising cross-vendor OpenCL implementation that may also support SYCL in the future...

Formula Retro Racing - World Tour is a fresh upcoming low-poly racer  GamingOnLinux

How to install Deepin Terminal on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS  Linux Shout

RimWorld - Biotech expansion announced and a big free update  GamingOnLinux

Best Trivia Games For Linux in 2022  BollyInside

In this article we will try to teach you how to Use Microsoft PowerShell Core on Linux Virtual Machines. PowerShell is an object-oriented automation  BollyInside

Last week at Intel's Innovation conference the Intel Developer Cloud "DevCloud" was announced, while on the AMD side there is already something similar: the AMD Cloud Platform. At the tail end of 2021, AMD announced the Accelerator Cloud as a way for trying out the latest EPYC CPUs and Instinct accelerators complete with a pre-configured ROCm compute software stack. The AMD Cloud Platform is a currently parallel effort to the Accelerator Cloud with the former intended more for developers while the latter is more customer-oriented. After trying out the AMD Cloud Platform, it's indeed an easy way to evaluate the latest AMD data center wares while having a easy-to-deploy, pre-configured software environment.

The Arm SoC and platform enablement pull requests were sent out this morning that provide the Linux 6.1 kernel with support for several new SoCs, various platforms including some newer smartphones, and other hardware support improvements...

There are patches that provide support for ZRAM to be able to handle multiple compression streams on a per-CPU basis. This kernel module for creating compressed block devices could be made more versatile with this proposed patch series...

In addition to the excitement of the Arc Graphics A750 and A770, Intel has unveiled oneVPL 2022.2 as the newest version of this open-source video processing library that is their flagship video decode/encode library and related video processing toolkit as part of oneAPI...

Intel Releases oneVPL 2022.2 With GPU Copy Improvements, Linux System Analyzer  Phoronix

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai on Wednesday submitted all of the sound driver updates for Linux 6.1...

TUXEDO Computers Releases Live ISO of Its Ubuntu-Based TUXEDO OS Linux Distro  9to5Linux

Linux 6.0 is Faster, Cooler | Debian Goes Proprietary | Google Africa Region  DevOps.com

Linux kernel 5.19.12 code could cause permanent damage to some laptop displays  Ars Technica

The Best Linux VPN in 2022 | Paid and Free Linux VPNs  The Tech Report