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Armello gets full Linux support restored with cross-platform online play  GamingOnLinux

Armello gets full Linux support restored with cross-platform online play  GamingOnLinux

One of the exciting open-source milestones this year was Dasharo/Coreboot being ported to a modern Intel Alder Lake Z690 motherboard that is readily available and at a decent price. That work by the open-source firmware engineers at 3mdeb was focused on the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 motherboard while with today's v1.1 release there is also support now for the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR5...

Ubisoft making a return to Steam with Assassin's Creed Valhalla on December 6th  GamingOnLinux

Nintendo goes after SteamGridDB, likely for people doing emulation on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Steam Play compatibility tool Luxtorpeda moves to Godot Engine for the UI  GamingOnLinux

Pixel-art open-world pirating adventure Arcane Waters is now in Early Access  GamingOnLinux

SteamOS 3.4 gets a fix for Resident Evil 4, plus new Steam Deck Client Beta out  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton installer ProtonUp-Qt v2.7.6 is out now fixing DXVK 2.0 for Lutris  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft extends security tool to macOS and Linux machines  IT World Canada

It's that time of the year with "Black Friday" this week and the start of the holiday shopping season. As usual, there is the annual holiday deal for Phoronix Premium to enjoy it at a discounted rate. Unfortunately the state of the ad industry and rampant ad-block use continue to greatly hurt the sustainability of the site while Phoronix Premium allows for enjoying the website ad-free and multi-page articles on a single page...

Premium Black Friday Deal To Support Open-Source News, Linux Hardware Testing - Phoronix  Phoronix

After open-sourcing its Radeon Raytracing Analyzer code last week, this week AMD's GPUOpen team has a new open-source project announcement: Brotli-G...

oneVPL 2023.1 Released For Intel's Open-Source Video Processing Library  Phoronix

Intel has published a new version of its oneVPL library as its open-source oneAPI Video Processing Library for video encoding/decoding and media processing across CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators...

Red Hat engineer Jan Grulich has written a year-end summary about the ongoing work for supporting Wayland-based screen sharing for the Google Chrome/Chromium web browser. The code still isn't enabled by default but given the strides being made that could change "sooner than later" if all goes well...

SDL 2.26 has been officially released as the latest version of this widely-used library by cross-platform games and other software wishing to abstract various hardware/software differences between systems. With the release of SDL 2.26 out, SDL 3.0 is now officially under development...

SDL 2.26 Released, SDL3 Development Now Underway  Phoronix

Microsoft bulks up Linux on Windows at the IoT edge in Azure  The Register

Lilbits: Linux on Apple Silicon, and a USB charger that looks like a ...  Liliputing