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Earlier this summer was the patch series for GNOME's Mutter to make use of the Linux DRM/KMS "max BPC" property for the drivers exposing the maximum bits per color supported. That code has now been merged in time for next month's GNOME 43 release and in turn will help deal with some scenarios where users may encounter screen flickering, brief blackouts, and other problems related to available monitor bandwidth...

How to Install Arch Linux From a GUI  How-To Geek

Humble Store has a big Summer Sale live, lots on offer for Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

StarBook Mk VI is a Linux laptop with up to Core i7-1260P or Ryzen 7 5800U  Liliputing

Asahi Linux May Have OpenGL 2.1 For Apple M1/M2 By Year's End  Phoronix

Alyssa Rosenzweig who is known for her work on the Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali driver and has been spending nearly two years now involved with the Asahi Linux crew working on reverse-engineered Apple M1/M2 graphics support has shared a new status update...

Getting Started With Windows Subsystem for Linux  Dignited

How to Install SSH Server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Boosts Security on Mac and Linux  Petri.com

"As Nasty as Dirty Pipe" — 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered  The Hacker News

How to install Neptune Linux on your computer  AddictiveTips

With this weekend having seen more Zink refactoring code land and Zink being faster than RadeonSI at least for some operations, it was time to fire up some fresh benchmarks of this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. From the newest Mesa code this weekend after the latest Zink patches were merged, here is a look at how the Zink performance is compared to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's native OpenGL support. All of the testing was done using an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card.

Last week Canonical announced official Ubuntu RISC-V images for the StarFive VisionFive board while this week they are expanding their supported RISC-V line-up to also include the Nezha single board computer powered by the Allwinner D1 SoC...

For the past decade going back to the early GTK3 days there has been the "Broadway" back-end that allows for GTK interfaces to be rendered within HTML5 web browsers. Aside from demos and other toys, there hasn't been too much widespread use reported with this GTK HTML5 back-end and some distributions like Ubuntu and Debian haven't been shipping the Broadway support with the newer GTK4. However, that is changing now for Debian and with this autumn's release of Ubuntu 22.10...

For those making use of Kexec reboots for booting to a new kernel without fully bringing down the system to reduce the server downtime from POST'ing and other hardware initialization tasks, Kexec reboots may soon be much faster on 64-bit Arm and RISC-V systems...

Following last week's release of KDE Gear 22.08, Kdenlive 22.08 is out as the newest version of this open-source, KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear video editing software...

How to List USB Devices Connected to Your Linux System  It's FOSS

I just turned an old MacBook Pro into a Chromebook — here's how I did it  Tom's Guide

Cool things you can do with the Linux desktop that you can't do with MacOS or Windows  ZDNet

Cool things you can do with the Linux desktop that you can't do with MacOS or Windows  ZDNet