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Canonical engineer Daniel van Vugt who is known for his work on enhancing the upstream GNOME desktop stack to improve the experience for Ubuntu has recently taken up interest in getting the AMD-Xilinx Kria KR260 working with the GNOME Wayland session. The Kria KR260 is for the recently-announced AMD/Xilinx Robotics Starter Kit...

OpenShot 2.6.1 review  TechRadar

Linux distro for Apple silicon Macs is already up and running on the brand-new M2  Ars Technica

Rocky Linux 9 and its new build service enter the ring  The Register

How to List the Installed Packages on Linux  How-To Geek

AMD today published AMDVLK 2022.Q3.1 as their latest snapshot of this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

How to Set Up WordPress Using Docker in Ubuntu  Make Tech Easier

Asahi Linux adds support for Macs with M2 chips  Liliputing

Asahi Linux adds support for Macs with M2 chips  Liliputing

How I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex  ZDNet

How I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex  ZDNet

Linux kernel team has conquered Retbleed, Torvalds says  TechRadar

After dealing with the Intel Alder Lake P GuC firmware breakage around Linux 5.19 Git that is now to be addressed by the upstream Intel developers, it was on to performance testing the shiny new Core i7 1280P with this kernel due to be released as stable within the next two weeks... For those concerned about maximum performance, there was a glaring performance regression for this Alder Lake P on the new kernel being released as stable later this month. Well, a default change in performance/behavior at least but the power efficiency / performance-per-Watt tended to be better on this new kernel.

Steam is no longer just for Windows, Mac, and Linux users  WindowsReport.com

2022 is the year of the Chrome OS desktop  ZDNet

Best Steam Games For Mac  Tech News Today

Disentangling the Debian derivatives: Which should you use?  The Register

AppFlowy: An Open-Source Alternative to Notion  It's FOSS

Asahi Linux has issued an update with initial support for the Mac Studio powered by the M1 Ultra SoC as well as having initial (experimental) suppoirt for the new Apple M2 hardware...

Stemming from my article last week noting how Linux 5.19 Git broke Intel Alder Lake P graphics support due to requiring new firmware while not retaining backwards compatibility with the existing Intel GuC firmware, a solution is still being worked on prior to Linux 5.19 final whether it be a revert or the proposed patch working on GuC v69/70 firmware compatibility. Linux firmware guidelines are also being proposed to ensure kernel developers in the future don't try to break firmware support guarantees...