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The easier way to install Steam on Linux gets bleeding-edge graphics support  Ars Technica

The easier way to install Steam on Linux gets bleeding-edge graphics support  Ars Technica

While Intel with the rest of the tech industry continue investing immense resources in areas around AI and talking it up, one of the efforts that has been slow to materialize on the Linux side has been for enabling their Gaussian and Neural Accelerator (GNA) with the mainline Linux kernel. This week the latest Intel GNA driver patches were posted for this neural co-processor...

Minecraft on Steam Deck Guide with Prism Launcher (and gamepad support)  GamingOnLinux

Learn Linux with these Pluralsight courses  TechRepublic

Learn Linux with these Pluralsight courses  TechRepublic

Persona 5 Royal is a great Steam Deck experience  GamingOnLinux

How to Install Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu Linux  Make Tech Easier

How to Install Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu Linux  Make Tech Easier

RimWorld - Biotech and the free 1.4 update out now  GamingOnLinux

Steam Just Got Better on Linux  How-To Geek

The very promising Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL implementation within Mesa has landed a set of patches today that make it easier to enable the OpenCL compute device support with the various Gallium3D drivers...

This Week In Security: Linux WiFi, Fortinet, Text4Shell, And Predictable GUIDs  Hackaday

Linux's universal TUN driver that provides packet reception and transmission for user-space programs may soon see a 1000x speed-up with a proposed patch sent out today for this network driver...

Linux TUN Network Driver May See A "1000x Speedup" With New, One-Line Patch  Phoronix

AMD today published their latest open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver update, AMDVLK 2022.Q4.1, as their first source update in three weeks...

Valve doing quick hotfixes in Proton for big game releases on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

CISA Tells Organizations to Patch Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exploited by Malware  SecurityWeek

Last Thursday AMD finally sent out the basic enablement patch for AMD Zen 4 "znver4" with the GCC compiler. Once again it was tardy with Ryzen 7000 series processors already shipping and sadly the cost tables (tuning) is still catering to Zen 3 rather than updated for Zen 4. While as of today this -march=znver4 support has been merged into GCC 13...

Red Hat's storage team responsible for the Stratis solution has released a new feature update...