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The post Must-Have Essential Applications on Fresh Linux Desktop Installation first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Modern GUI Linux distributions bundle with essential applications to help users get started without much of a hassle. This means that you don’t need to install them in the first place. Despite that, developers

The post Must-Have Essential Applications on Fresh Linux Desktop Installation first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

More than a few Phoronix readers have written in that have been early adopters to the Linux 6.1 kernel released as stable earlier this month and now finding their HDMI audio outputs no longer working. Fortunately, the issue has been sorted out by upstream developers and a fix is on the way...

A Fix Is On The Way For AMD HDMI Audio Being Broken With Linux ...  Phoronix

How to Use the csplit Command to Split Files on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install and Play GOG Games on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenCV 4.7 was released today as the newest version of this widely-used, open-source computer vision library...

Linux and Ty Sunderland Host Y2Rave: Reloaded for NYE  Papermag

I'm now officially converted to the RGB LED religion and OpenRGB ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux Fu: Miller The Killer Makes CSV No Pest  Hackaday

Steam Deck hits over 7000 games either Verified or Playable  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.2's Call Depth Tracking Helps Recover Lost Performance On Intel Skylake CPUs  Phoronix

When the Retbleed security vulnerability was introduced earlier this year mitigating it for Intel Skylake and Skylake-derived CPU cores required imposing Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) that further tanked the out-of-the-box performance for these aging Intel CPUs. But being introduced now with Linux 6.2 is a new mitigation technique named Call Depth Tracking that is helping recover some of that lost performance and in turn extending the usefulness of the Skylake-derived processors still in service.

Red Hat lowers barriers to hybrid cloud adoption with expanded public offerings in AWS marketplace  ZAWYA

The Steam Deck really doesn't need exclusives  GamingOnLinux

The Steam Deck really doesn't need exclusives  GamingOnLinux

With the end of the year upon us, it's interesting and fun running GitStats on various prominent open-source projects and looking at some of the key growth metrics over the past year. Here is a look at how systemd's Git activity has paced in 2022 compared to years prior...

Steam Deck OS 3.4 Update Fixes Stuttering Games After Waking ...  DualShockers

LLVM's GPU/device offloading support continues to advance and this open-source compiler stack has now added basic JIT (Just In Time) compilation support to its OpenMP offloading capabilities...

Following yesterday's article looking at the performance of Intel's Clear Linux running on AMD EPYC 4th Gen "Genoa" with great performance results even though Clear's kernel was limited to 320 of the 384 available logical CPU cores for the EPYC 9654 2P setup, the kernel has now been adjusted to handle up to 512 CPUs...

Clear Linux Will Now Handle Up To 512 CPU Cores / vCPUs  Phoronix