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Learn Linux with these Pluralsight courses  TechRepublic

Persona 5 Royal is a great Steam Deck experience  GamingOnLinux

How to Install Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu Linux  Make Tech Easier

How to Install Metasploit Framework on Ubuntu Linux  Make Tech Easier

RimWorld - Biotech and the free 1.4 update out now  GamingOnLinux

Steam Just Got Better on Linux  How-To Geek

The very promising Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL implementation within Mesa has landed a set of patches today that make it easier to enable the OpenCL compute device support with the various Gallium3D drivers...

This Week In Security: Linux WiFi, Fortinet, Text4Shell, And Predictable GUIDs  Hackaday

Linux's universal TUN driver that provides packet reception and transmission for user-space programs may soon see a 1000x speed-up with a proposed patch sent out today for this network driver...

Linux TUN Network Driver May See A "1000x Speedup" With New, One-Line Patch  Phoronix

AMD today published their latest open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver update, AMDVLK 2022.Q4.1, as their first source update in three weeks...

Valve doing quick hotfixes in Proton for big game releases on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

CISA Tells Organizations to Patch Linux Kernel Vulnerability Exploited by Malware  SecurityWeek

Last Thursday AMD finally sent out the basic enablement patch for AMD Zen 4 "znver4" with the GCC compiler. Once again it was tardy with Ryzen 7000 series processors already shipping and sadly the cost tables (tuning) is still catering to Zen 3 rather than updated for Zen 4. While as of today this -march=znver4 support has been merged into GCC 13...

Red Hat's storage team responsible for the Stratis solution has released a new feature update...

Stratis Storage 3.3 Released - Easily Make Use Of Expanded RAID Arrays  Phoronix

Windows users are increasingly making use of Mesa with Microsoft investing in supporting a number of different open, industry standard APIs and then layering them atop the underlying Direct3D 12 driver for the likes of WSL2 usage. OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and VA-API video acceleration have been the primary targets for Microsoft engineers working on Mesa with the Windows Subsystem for Linux in mind while also posing other possible use-cases where the host may lack native drivers for those APIs. For bettering Mesa on Windows, Microsoft has now added support for compiling against the DirectX 12 Agility SDK...

As part of Intel's work starting to enable the compiler support for their Sierra Forest CPUs, AVX-VNNI-INT8 and AVX-IFMA support has been merged into the GCC 13 compiler for supporting these instructions being first introduced with Intel's Sierra Forest and Grand Ridge...

Thanks to a Google engineer in communication with Microsoft engineers, the "hid-microsoft" upstream Linux driver is seeing work to support the rumble mode on newer Xbox controllers...

Linux Getting Rumble Support For Latest Microsoft Xbox Controllers  Phoronix