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Mesa recently landed BPTC software fallback handling that is a requirement for OpenGL 4.2 support but BPTC is not natively supported by all GPU hardware, particularly on the embedded side. That software emulation support for BPTC is similar to what already has existed within Mesa for the ASTC and ETC formats too. A merge request is pending that also adds S3TC software fallback handling, which helps out some of the smaller, embedded GPU drivers too for getting more games running that are dependent on S3 Texture Compression...

Slackware-based Salix 15 Linux distribution available for download  BetaNews

Wine 7.16 improves Windows games compatibility on Linux  TechSpot

After a series of alpha and beta releases over the past several months, out this past week is the first release candidate of the upcoming PHP 8.2...

PHP 8.2 RC1 Released With Various Fixes & Improvements  Phoronix

Lilbits: EU could mandate longer life-spans for phones, Motorola Edge 30 Ultra and Fusion leaked  Liliputing

Even MORE invites for Steam Deck purchases will start going out now  GamingOnLinux

SiNKR 3 is a wonderful end to a clever wordless puzzle game series  GamingOnLinux

Vitalik Buterin Thinks Crypto Could Be the Linux of Finance by 2040  Business 2 Community

2K's 'quality of life' change for BioShock is that Linux users can't play it anymore  PC Gamer

2K's 'quality of life' change for BioShock is that Linux users can't play it anymore  PC Gamer

Being merged a few minutes ago into Mesa 22.3 is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" support for the recently ratified mesh shader extension...

Cyber Security Today, Sept. 5, 2022 - An alert to energy companies, a warning to Linux administrators and more  IT World Canada

The Kubuntu Focus NX is a small and mighty Linux desktop  GamingOnLinux

Xbox goes to Linux Mariner for its game and app store  Gearrice

How to schedule Linux upgrades with Webmin  TechRepublic

While there has been talk and plans for Vulkan API support within Blender, currently there are no active developers working on it and much work remains before it would be ready for end-users...

JSAUX announce their new Steam Deck Dock with an M.2 SSD slot  GamingOnLinux

Psychological horror detective adventure Saint Kotar gets a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

Psychological horror detective adventure Saint Kotar gets a Linux version  GamingOnLinux