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In addition to the very successful FEX-Emu emulator for enjoying Linux x86/x86_64 games on AArch64 and other x86/x86_64 software on Arm there is also the Box86 and Box64 projects with similar goals. Out today is Box64 v0.2 and Box86 v0.2.8 for running Linux binaries on other architectures...

The Khronos Group announced the release of Vulkan 1.3.235 as the latest routine spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API...

Vulkan 1.3.235 Released With New VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Extension  Phoronix

StarFighter Linux Laptop with Thunderbolt 4 Available for Pre-order  Tom's Hardware

StarFighter Linux Laptop with Thunderbolt 4 Available for Pre-order  Tom's Hardware

How to fix the EA app on Steam Deck and Linux desktop  GamingOnLinux

Marvell Joins the Linux Foundation's SONiC as Premier Member  Yahoo Finance

Marvell Joins the Linux Foundation's SONiC as Premier Member  PR Newswire

Being merged this week to GNU Binutils is initial support for reading and writing to new "SFrame" sections of binaries...

Valve update desktop Steam Stable Client with the New Big Picture Mode option  GamingOnLinux

Authenticator: An Open-Source App to Replace Authy on Linux  It's FOSS

OpenSUSE has officially released openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 as the newest version of their OS built atop SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 and SLE Micro 5.3 for providing a lightweight, modern OS that is auto-updating, immutable, and provides other distinct features over Tumbleweed or Leap...

openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 Released For Modern, Lightweight Linux OS  Phoronix

Proton Experimental updated fixing Halo Infinite and more on Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

AMD Introduces New Hotplug Driver Option For The X.Org Server  Phoronix

Currently when hot-plugging a new GPU to a running X.Org Server, the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver ends up being utilized. However, a new "HotplugDriver" xorg.conf option has been introduced by AMD to allow users to specify their desired DDX driver. In turn this makes it possible for those hot-plugging hardware like AMD Radeon GPUs such as within eGPU enclosures to specify using the xf86-video-amdgpu driver instead...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 released  iTWire

Ways to look at logged in users on Linux  Network World

Mesa's AGX "Asahi" Gallium3D driver for providing OpenGL / GLES support on Apple M1/M2 SoCs has begun making some early preparatory changes for eventually supporting the in-development DRM/KMS kernel driver. The kernel driver is still a work-in-progress and not close to being merged yet and the user-space API not yet set in stone, but some early changes in better preparing the Mesa driver for actually running on the Apple Silicon hardware under Linux have been merged...

Red Hat introduces latest versions of its enterprise Linux  IT Brief New Zealand