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Ahead of the Steam Deck shipping later this month, here is where the Steam on Linux marketshare currently stands...

Steam On Linux Hovered Just Above 1% For January 2022  Phoronix

Have you ever wished programming were more like an action movie? If you answered yes, then I have the language for you.

While wandering the internet to find the most obscure and fun open source languages, I came across ArnoldC. ArnoldC is an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from various Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

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Beyond Mankind: The Awakening Old School Action RPG Is Out Now on Linux  9to5Linux

While it's not the same as sitting in Brussels and enjoying some Belgian beers while socializing in-person with developers, the annual Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) is happening this weekend online...

As a particularly important move for Linux gamers and enthusiasts where you may be riding frequent Git builds of new Mesa graphics drivers or even the bi-weekly point releases - compared to the multi-week/monthly update regiment for Windows graphics drivers - Valve's Steam client will now flush its stale shader cache upon GPU/driver changes. This is important for conserving disk space especially where storage constraints are possible like with the Steam Deck...

In a short period of time Microsoft's D3D12 Gallium3D driver has gone from implementing OpenGL 3.3 atop the Direct3D 12 interface to now having working OpenGL 4.2 support...

All Linux Distributions Affected by 12 Year-Old PwnKit Local Privilege Escalation Bug Allowing an Attacker ...  CPO Magazine

All Linux Distributions Affected by 12 Year-Old PwnKit Local Privilege Escalation Bug Allowing an Attacker ...  CPO Magazine

System76 refreshes Kudu Linux laptop with Ryzen 7 CPU and up to 64GB RAM  XDA Developers

How to Install LAMP Server on Amazon Linux 2  Security Boulevard

As part of an effort to update LLVM Clang's "-mtune" handling to cater to newer processors, AMD Zen processors with LLVM/Clang 15 later this year will be able to enjoy faster and more accurate square root calculations with tuning to use SQRTSS/SQRTPS instructions...

The Fifteen Dollar Linux Computer  Hackaday

The Fifteen Dollar Linux Computer  Hackaday

Libinput 1.19 launched last September with high resolution scroll wheel support finally in place while libinput 1.20 is in preparation for release that improves that functionality. Libinput 1.20 also makes other improvements to this widely-used input library on the Linux desktop that is leveraged by both X.Org and Wayland based environments...

Back in the day I enjoyed Zenwalk as a great desktop-focused, ready out-of-the-box Linux distribution built atop Slackware. After not hearing much from the project in a while, I am glad to see it's still going strong and they have today issued Zenwalk 15 that is built atop the newly-released Slackware 15.0...

3dfx Glide Coming to Linux with Support for Modern GPUs  Tom's Hardware

3dfx Glide Coming to Linux with Support for Modern GPUs  Tom's Hardware

How To Install Apache Cassandra on AlmaLinux 8 | Rocky Linux 8  Linux Shout

AMD officially approves GPU support for MI200 “Alderbaran” for use in Linux  Wccftech