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In development recently has been sdl12-compat as a compatibility layer that implements the SDL 1.2 interfaces atop SDL 2.0. This effort allows many older Linux games not seeing updates for SDL2 to in turn make use of the newer version by way of this compatibility layer...

Just under one month ago was the ROCm 5.0 release with formal RDNA2 support and on Friday night marked the latest point release for that open-source AMD Radeon Open eCosystem compute stack update...

Unfortunately this week the KDE project saw "overall activity was lower than usual" that in part at least seems to be fallout from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Sadly some Ukranian KDE contributors have been impacted by the ongoing situation and some KDE Russia contributors have also been impacted by their Internet restrictions...

KDE Activity Lower This Week As Impact From The Russia-Ukraine War  Phoronix

Unfixable Blue Screen Of Death - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

New Linux Kernel Cgroups Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Escape Container  The Hacker News

I’ve recently explored some of the differences between Java and Groovy when creating and initializing lists and building lists at runtime. I observed the simple facilities provided by Groovy for these purposes in comparison to the complexity required in Java.

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I Tested The New Maui Shell On My Linux Phone. Here’s What I Found!  It's FOSS News

Linux can get your tired old computer up and running again  The Star Online

Back in January I wrote about LatencyFlex as an open-source, vendor-agnostic alternative to NVIDIA Reflex. This drop-in replacement to NVIDIA's proprietary solution focused on reducing rendering latency is out with its very first release...

Installed new RAM and laptop shut down (over-heated, perhaps?) - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Apache NetBeans 13 is now available as the latest version of this popular open-source integrated development environment (IDE)...

Purism's Librem 5 Linux smartphone costs $1299 after the latest price hike  Liliputing

After many years of waiting and past faltered efforts, "Imagination Tech publishing a new open-source driver" probably wasn't on your bingo card for 2022... But they are doing such with a new open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver for Mesa...

17 Important Linux Interview Questions with Answers  Linux Journal

1. Hey Linux Users: New Steam Deck Owners Really Need Your Help  Forbes
2. A brief tour of the Steam Deck’s Linux implementation  Ars Technica
3. For Linux Enthusiasts Especially, The Steam Deck Is An Incredible & Fun Device  Phoronix
4. Steam Deck: 7 Unexpected Things We Discovered - IGN  IGN
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Hey Linux Users: New Steam Deck Owners Really Need Your Help  Forbes

In addition to this morning's release of VKD3D-Proton 2.6, DXVK 1.10 has been released as the Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan API implementation used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

How to Install and Use Cerebro: A Spotlight Alternative for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Top 10 Articles About Linux: February 2022  ITPro Today