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Everything You Need to Know About Linux Mint  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD has merged video acceleration quality improvements into Mesa 22.3's Gallium3D VA front-end for benefiting open-source video acceleration on Radeon GPUs...

Get the likes of Parkitect and Project Hospital in this latest game bundle  GamingOnLinux

How to List All Users In a Group on Linux  How-To Geek

Intel's Arctic Sound M is being announced today as the Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series.

How to Use Your Smartphone as a Second Monitor for Your Linux Desktop  Make Tech Easier

CrossOver 22 Can Run More Windows Apps on Mac and Linux  How-To Geek

Intel open-source engineers have readied their first batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" changes for DRM-Next of material they are preparing for introduction with the Linux 6.1 kernel cycle later this year...

Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.1 - More DG2/Alchemist Work  Phoronix

How to Create Custom Grub Menu Backgrounds for Linux Boots  Tom's Hardware

1. Wii U emulator Cemu 2.0 out, goes open source and gets Linux support  GamingOnLinux
2. How to Install Ubuntu on Windows Services for Linux  ITPro Today
3. Getting Started With Windows Subsystem for Linux  Dignited
4. Cemu Emulator For The Wii U Now Open-Source, Building On Linux  Phoronix
5. Here's why Wii U emulator Cemu going open source is a big deal for emulation—and for the Steam Deck  PC Gamer
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Wii U emulator Cemu 2.0 out, goes open source and gets Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Linux-First AI Image Upscaler Upscayl Released its First Version  It's FOSS News

Cemu is a popular emulator for the Nintendo Wii U that can successfully run many games as well as homebrew titles. Cemu started off with just Windows support but then at the beginning of the year laid out plans to go open-source and provide Linux support. They've pulled that off and the code is now out there in a public GitHub repository...

The current Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver within Mesa supports graphics hardware going back to the "Gen7" graphics found with Haswell. However, Intel open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are preparing to separate the old Haswell (Gen7) and Broadwell (Gen8) graphics into a separate Mesa driver so they can better focus on improving their modern Vulkan driver that would then be limited to Skylake Gen9 graphics and newer...

The X.Org project "xisxwayland" is out with a new version of this simple program that can be easily called by shell scripts and other simple uses for checking to see whether the running X.Org Server is a genuine X11 server or more commonly these days an XWayland server running within a Wayland environment...

For speeding up the actual Mesa continuous integration (CI) process itself with frequently building new revisions of Mesa3D, their CI infrastructure is beginning to make use of the Mold linker as a high performance alternative to the GNU Gold and LLVM LLD linkers. This is yielding a "substantial" performance improvement in tests for being able to turnaround CI jobs faster and in turn allowing Mesa developers to be more efficient...

Games publisher PQube accused of 'predatory practices' and being manipulative  GamingOnLinux

Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb last year worked on Fwupd support for FreeBSD so system firmware updates can be more easily handled on that popular BSD operating system and leveraging the Fwupd/LVFS infrastructure that's been happening for years in the Linux space. Their most recent target is now DragonFlyBSD for handling of UEFI firmware updates with Fwupd...

One of the great things about Jason Ekstrand having joined Collabora at the start of the year is that the former Intel graphics engineer, who was on the team that created their original Vulkan driver, can now work on whatever open-source driver code he wishes. Among other upstream Mesa work, he's recently been contributing to the new "NVK" NVIDIA Vulkan driver and also the RADV driver too...