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Linux 6.0 should be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last minute reservations and decides to extend the cycle by an extra week. AMD has sent in a last minute set of patches for their AMDGPU kernel driver with Linux 6.0 for dealing with what appear to be the upcoming RDNA3 graphics cards...

The 'Heavy Machinery' update for survival game Volcanoids looks awesome  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” to Arrive on Christmas with Improved Driver Manager, New ISO Verifier  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 21.1 Codenamed ‘Vera’, Will Arrive at Xmas  OMG! Ubuntu!

5 Nautilus Extensions to Enhance Your GNOME File Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

Using Chmod Recursive to Change File Permissions on macOS and Linux  Petri.com

This week was word of the Intel Arc Graphics A770 launching for $329+ on 12 October, yesterday was the embargo lift on the Arc Graphics A750 also shipping on 12 Ocrober for $289+, and now today is another embargo lift concerning Intel Arc Graphics.....

Intel Arc Graphics A750 + A770 Are Ready To Run On Open-Source Linux Drivers  Phoronix

The Ubuntu-based Linux Mint operating system has been working to enhance its Driver Manager utility for dealing with proprietary and other out-of-tree kernel hardware drivers...

Linux Mint Improving Its Driver Manager  Phoronix

Brotato is going to be my next horde-survival arena-shooter obsession  GamingOnLinux

Vampire Survivors 1.0 coming October 20th, seems a Linux port is still planned  GamingOnLinux

How to install Only Office 7.2 on Linux  AddictiveTips

Share files fast and easy on Linux with VServer  AddictiveTips

Recently the open-source AMD OpenGL driver "RadeonSI" enabled OpenGL threading by default for the "glthread" option that has long been opt-in on a per-game/app basis. Along with that has been a number of glthread-related improvements to this code that punts executing OpenGL calls to a separate CPU thread. The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has now unconditionally enabled OpenGL threading too...

Another small Steam Deck Beta update gets some fixes  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft engineers continue working on improving their Direct3D 12 driver within Mesa for benefiting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) usage and similar...

[Exclusive] Tuxedo Makes Ubuntu-based 'TUXEDO OS' Available For All  It's FOSS News

On Thursday night Canonical released the beta of next month's Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" Linux distribution update...

Cloud-Hypervisor as what started as an open-source project by Intel and now run under the Linux Foundation umbrella as a Rust-based, modern-focused hypervisor for cloud workloads keeps on advancing. In addition to Intel, Microsoft and Arm continue investing significant resources into Cloud-Hypervisor for this security-focused VMM for running Windows and Linux guests...