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After many months and a lot of work by the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developers, Linux 5.20 looks like it will be the base kernel where the DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics desktop GPUs and Arctic Sound M (ATS-M) server graphics card support will be ready in usable shape...

Linux Mint 21 is working its way toward release this summer as the latest version of this desktop OS that is being built atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unlike Ubuntu 22.04 upstream that is now using systemd-oomd by default on the desktop to try to improve the low memory / system memory pressure experience, Linux Mint has now decided to avoid this daemon due to user criticism...

It's sadly been years since having anything major to report on for Xonotic, the open-source first person shooter game that started out many years ago as Nexuiz. Thankfully a new version of Xonotic was published this week and while it's just a point release, it does come with many improvements...

The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA  The Register

Firewalld 1.2 was released on Friday as the newest feature release for this Linux firewall daemon. Bug fix releases for existing stable series were released with Firewalld 1.1.2, 1.0.5, and 0.9.9...

The summer months aren't slowing down KDE developers as it's been another busy week of bug fixes and feature work for KDE developers to kick off July...

Vulkan 1.3.219 released this week and in addition to a number of documentation clarifications/corrections there are two new extensions...

13 Interesting Distributions Based on Debian Linux  It's FOSS

Linux Mint 21 Is Going To Avoid systemd-oomd  Phoronix

ROMA Linux laptop to feature quad-core RISC-V SoC, support Web3, NFT, cryptocurrencies, etc…  CNX Software

With the new month comes the latest figures from Valve regarding the Steam on Linux marketshare and other metrics for the past month as a result of the Steam Survey...

Steam On Linux Marketshare Ticks Up To 1.18% For June  Phoronix

Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” LTS Support Reached End of Life, Upgrade Now  9to5Linux

How to Create a Bootable USB on Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Linux fold command breaks up text, drives loops  Network World

Wine 7.12 is out as the newest development release of this program for running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

The size of the linux-firmware.git tree continues to grow with Linux continuing to support more and more modern hardware that is increasingly reliant upon firmware blobs for operation. Most Linux distributions like Fedora end up installing this entire set of Linux firmware files that can easily be 200~300MB even though most systems only use a few select files. With Fedora 37 later this year they are hoping to better deal with the situation by splitting up of linux-firmware and only installing sets of firmware packages depending upon the actual hardware in use...

Here's what makes Spiral Linux so good for new users  ZDNet

RISC-V International has relayed word to us that in China the DeepComputing and Xcalibyte organizations have announced pre-orders on the first RISC-V laptop intended for developers. The "ROMA" development platform features a quad-core RISC-V processor, up to 16GB of RAM, up to 256GB of storage, and should work with most RISC-V Linux distributions...

Star Labs Teases the StarFighter Linux Laptop with 4K Display, AMD or Intel Processors  9to5Linux