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Linux Mint 21.1 is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 21.1 is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 21.1 is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Microsoft exFAT To Receive Huge Performance Boost on Linux Sony’s Take Is Here  Research Snipers

Valve is paying a whole lot of developers to keep the Steam Deck's ...  PC Gamer

KDE Plasma gets Wayland Fractional Scaling, Fixing Multi-Screen ...  GamingOnLinux

Multiplayer sandbox building game Brickadia heads to Steam next ...  GamingOnLinux

Epic Games needs your birthday to keep your account working in ...  GamingOnLinux

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The free and open source Worms-like 'Hedgewars' is now on Steam  GamingOnLinux

The IBM Power/PowerPC architecture updates were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.2 merge window and most significant with this update is the introduction of a new Power-specific qspinlock implementation designed to bolster large system scalability...

Linux 6.2 Landing Scalability Improvement For Large IBM Power ...  Phoronix

GE-Proton 7-43 is out should fix up Immortals Fenyx Rising, Baldur's ...  GamingOnLinux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 18th, 2022  9to5Linux

AMD kicked off Christmas week by posting an eighth version of their P-State EPP driver patches for implementing the AMD Energy Performance Preference handling within their recent processors/SoCs for software to hint a performance or energy efficiency hint. P-State EPP can address some of the shortcomings with AMD's original P-State driver implementation merged nearly a year ago and has been showing good results in numbers posted by AMD engineers...

AMD P-State EPP Patches Spun An 8th Time For Helping Out Linux ...  Phoronix

Linux, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, to challenge Google with their new mapping services  The Hindu

Running The New Open-Source NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Support In Linux 6.2  Phoronix

New Patches Aim To Boost Linux 9p Performance By ~10x  Phoronix

A new set of patches posted for the Plan 9 (9p) resource sharing protocol code inside the Linux kernel can deliver roughly 10x better performance for file transfers...