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Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

Say goodbye to Windows 11 and switch to MX Linux 23.5 for a faster PC  BetaNews

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not...

Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations  Phoronix

New Video games on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, PC, Mac, Linux: Release date, check features  The Economic Times

Fanatical's Diamond Collection for January 2025 offers up 16 games with good Linux / Steam Deck compatibility  GamingOnLinux

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday...

MX Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9  9to5Linux

How to install extra software, apps and games on SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

How To Use AppArmor to Lock Down Linux Applications  ITPro Today

Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...

NTSYNC driver for improving Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton should finally land in Linux kernel 6.14  GamingOnLinux

Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramatic in leveraging this zero-copy path...

Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Retro gaming Linux distro Batocera v41 brings expanded Wine support, better multi-screen, new hardware support  GamingOnLinux

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Linux Patches Reworked In 4th Spin  Phoronix

A nice Christmas surprise for 2024 was Meta engineer Rik van Riel posting Linux kernel patches for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found since Zen 3 processors for broadcast TLB invalidation...

Sid Meier's Civilization VII is Steam Deck Verified with the Linux version ahead of release on February 11  GamingOnLinux

Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays...