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A huge milestone has been reached in the rustc_codegen_gcc effort that aims to offer a GCC-based Rust compiler alternative to the LLVM-based official Rust compiler...

How to Install ADB on Windows PC, macOS, Linux/Chrome OS  BollyInside

As longtime Linux users likely know or even those reading Phoronix over the years, Wacom devices have generally worked well on Linux. Not that it should be particularly surprising, Wacom recently published a blog post talking up their twenty years of Linux support for their various drawing pens and tablets...

ReactOS as the open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows applications/games/drivers has made much progress over the past two decades but in some areas still lacking like still working on SMP/multi-core support and other functionality. To some surprise, some of the older Battlefield games are at least now in a playable state on ReactOS...

Following Intel's Arc A-Series mobile graphics introduction from earlier in the week, Intel open-source engineers have released their Media Driver/SDK 22.3.1 version that includes more DG2/Alchemist feature enablement...

With March wrapped up here is a look back at the most popular open-source Linux news and articles for the month...

Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March  Phoronix

This week brought "an enormous number of Plasma bugfixes and UI improvements" and other changes to the KDE desktop stack...

KDE Starts April With Many Fixes, KWrite Internally Using The Same Code As Kate  Phoronix

Nitrux 2.1 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 5.17, Latest KDE Plasma Goodies  9to5Linux

Nitrux 2.1 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 5.17, Latest KDE Plasma Goodies  9to5Linux

There hasn't been clear guidance from Valve whether Steam Deck units will participate in the Steam Survey (I haven't seen any survey myself there either) but it's looking like possibly not as the Steam on Linux marketshare dipped lower in March...

Steam On Linux For March Drops Down To 1.00%  Phoronix

Lutris Game Manager Adds Steam Deck Support, EA Origin and Ubisoft Connect Integration  9to5Linux

Lutris as the open-source game manager that is popular with Linux gamers for managing titles across the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other sources. Today's Lutris 0.5.10 release brings support for the Steam Deck along with other improvements...

How to Create a Windows Bootable USB on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Create a Windows Bootable USB on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Last week saw the main KVM virtualization pull for the Linux 5.18 feature updates while sent in today was a second batch of improvements for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine...

Have an old laptop or computer? Give it new life with Chrome OS Flex  ZDNet

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