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Intel Media SDK 22.3.1 Released With Raptor Lake Support, More DG2/Alchemist Features

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 17:46
Following Intel's Arc A-Series mobile graphics introduction from earlier in the week, Intel open-source engineers have released their Media Driver/SDK 22.3.1 version that includes more DG2/Alchemist feature enablement...

Linux 5.18 Preparations, AMD Servers, Spectre BHI & Other Highlights From March

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 17:35
With March wrapped up here is a look back at the most popular open-source Linux news and articles for the month...

KDE Starts April With Many Fixes, KWrite Internally Using The Same Code As Kate

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 17:26
This week brought "an enormous number of Plasma bugfixes and UI improvements" and other changes to the KDE desktop stack...

Steam On Linux For March Drops Down To 1.00%

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 08:52
There hasn't been clear guidance from Valve whether Steam Deck units will participate in the Steam Survey (I haven't seen any survey myself there either) but it's looking like possibly not as the Steam on Linux marketshare dipped lower in March...

Lutris 0.5.10 Released With Steam Deck Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 06:08
Lutris as the open-source game manager that is popular with Linux gamers for managing titles across the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other sources. Today's Lutris 0.5.10 release brings support for the Steam Deck along with other improvements...

Linux 5.18's KVM Squeezes In AMD Nested Virtualization Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 02:25
Last week saw the main KVM virtualization pull for the Linux 5.18 feature updates while sent in today was a second batch of improvements for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine...

What Is Fedora Linux? - How-To Geek

Google News - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 02:00
What Is Fedora Linux?  How-To Geek

What Is Fedora Linux? - How-To Geek

Google News - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 02:00
What Is Fedora Linux?  How-To Geek

Linux 5.18 Makes Two Key Improvements To exFAT File-System Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/02/2022 - 01:39
Ahead of the Linux 5.18 merge window ending this weekend, the driver for Microsoft's exFAT file-system saw its pull request today. There are just two patches this cycle for exFAT but both changes are significant...

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