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Back during the summer once Asahi Linux introduced initial Apple M2 SoC support I ran many Apple M2 Linux benchmarks including a look at how the M2 competes with AMD and Intel laptop processors. With months having passed since then and the Apple M1/M2 Linux support has continued to advance upstream as well as more work hitting the Asahi Linux tree, here is a fresh look at where the performance of the M2 is currently at compared to that initial at-launch support.

A Fresh Look At The Asahi Linux Performance On Apple's M2  Phoronix

How Realtime Is Your Kernel? Scope A GPIO To Find Out  Hackaday

AMD Says Transistor Tech Will Keep Moore's Law Alive For 6 To 8 Years  Slashdot

Saints Row IV getting a free upgrade to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and store cross-play  GamingOnLinux

You told us: You think Android and iOS could do with competition  Android Authority

Released this morning is Intel IGC 1.0.12504.5 for Linux and Windows systems as the newest version of the open-source Intel Graphics Compiler. As the first tagged update in nearly two months, IGC 1.0.12504.5 is a big one...

Tower defense adventure Dwerve adds a whole new classic TD mode  GamingOnLinux

PoCL 3.1 is out today as the newest feature update to the "Portable Computing Language" that is effectively a portable OpenCL implementation that originally began focused on being a CPU-based implementation of OpenCL and has grown to support additional back-end drivers via LLVM for targeting NVIDIA CUDA, an experimental Vulkan driver, and other accelerator targets...

Civilization VI updated properly for Linux from Aspyr but still has problems  GamingOnLinux

OpenRA for classic Command & Conquer, Dune 2000, Red Alert has a new Playtest  GamingOnLinux

ProtonPlus is a new in-development Proton version manager  GamingOnLinux

Last month I wrote about Intel having worked on USB4 wake-on-connect and wake-on-disconnect handling for the Linux kernel and those patches are indeed primed to be introduced next week with the Linux 6.2 merge window...

USB4 Wake-On-Connect / Wake-On-Disconnect Ready For Linux 6.2  Phoronix

Lutris v0.5.12 out now fixing Origin, Epic Store, Ubisoft Connect, GOG  GamingOnLinux

As we get ready to enter 2023, the Linux kernel's floppy disk driver is still being maintained...

Amnesia: The Bunker from Frictional Games announced  GamingOnLinux

Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 - Still Being Maintained In 2023  Phoronix

Valve are finally fixing buying games on Steam Deck that need a pop-up  GamingOnLinux

While X.Org Katamari releases are no longer being organized to bundle up all of the different X11 software components behind one version number and some X.Org software pieces are seeing very seldom updates every number of years, this past week has seen twenty new X.Org software releases...