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AMD FP-DSS Security Bug For Zen 1 CPUs Made Public, Linux Kernel Patched  Phoronix

For those using upstream Wine for running your Windows games/apps on Linux rather than the likes of the Proton 11.0 beta, out today is Wine 11.7 as the newest bi-weekly development release...

AYN Odin 3 Handheld Linux Support Enables Snapdragon 8 Elite Desktop PC Performance Features  Technetbook

Steam Runs On Nintendo Switch Using Valve's Proton Linux Beta  HotHardware

Can Brave Origin Nightly on Linux Shift Enterprise Browser Strategy?  The Futurum Group

Valve's Proton 11 beta boosts Linux gaming with better performance and classic game support  TechSpot

Denuvo blocks Pragmata Steam Deck and Linux players, as reviews slam anti-piracy DRM  Notebookcheck

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year Review  Phoronix

Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it's been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year.

All-timer weirdo game Deadly Premonition now works on Linux thanks to Valve  PC Gamer

Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m  Phoronix

The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m"...

I've used Linux for 18 years, but these 5 terminal tricks still surprise me  How-To Geek

21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!  It's FOSS

France to remove Windows from government computers in sovereignty push  RFI

Loongson's LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library "glibc" release...

Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs  Phoronix

Linux libcrypto cryptography subsystem changes for the v7.1 kernel are enabling more optimizations by default and in turn helping to achieve better crypto/hashing performance on this next kernel version...

Fedora 44 final had been aiming for an early release target of 21 April, but due to outstanding blocker bugs, it's now revised to target a release on 28 April...

Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week  Phoronix