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The NVIDIA GeForce FX "NV30" graphics cards are nearly two decades old while via the open-source, community-driven Nouveau project even these old GPUs still see occasional Linux graphics driver improvements. Hitting Mesa 22.1-devel today is the most notable driver work we've seen in years for the open-source NV30 and NV40 (GeForce 6 / 7 series) graphics cards...

Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs get further support in latest Linux kernel  Wccftech

Linux Fu: Fusing Hackaday  Hackaday

Linux Standalone Headset Simula One Opens Preorders For 'No Earlier Than Q4'  UploadVR

How to install QEMU/KVM on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS  Linux Shout

Linux beats Windows 11 when running on the best CPU from Intel  Windows Central

1. Google is upping its Linux bug bounty prize  TechRadar
2. Security: Google to pay up to $91,337 for exploits of new Linux and Kubernetes bugs  ZDNet
3. Google almost doubles Linux Kernel, Kubernetes zero-day rewards  BleepingComputer
4. Google Offering $91,000 Rewards for Linux Kernel, GKE Zero-Days  SecurityWeek
5. Google doubles bug bounty rewards for Linux, Kubernetes exploits  IT PRO
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Google is upping its Linux bug bounty prize  TechRadar

XWayland 22.1 is out today as the newest standalone feature release for this XWayland code issued separately from the X.Org Server. XWayland continues in very robust shape for allowing X11 clients whether it be games or applications to run atop capable Wayland compositors...

Best Linux Distros for Gaming of 2022  BollyInside

How To transfer and rename Files in Linux  BollyInside

Cyber Security Today - Debian Linux had the most vulnerabilities last year, VMware security updates released, and more  IT World Canada

As with most modern SoCs/processors, proper CPU frequency scaling / performance state management is absolutely critical for achieving good performance out of the hardware either for ensuring the CPU is hitting its capable performance states and also to reduce power consumption / heat when not needed in order to avoid thermal throttling and prolonging battery life. Fortunately, a proper CPUFreq driver for the Apple M1 is in development for Linux and is allowing for a combination of enticing performance and good battery life for this community-driven, open-source support around the Apple Silicon...

Linux On The Apple M1 Preparing Better Performance With In-Development CPUFreq Driver  Phoronix

Chrome for Windows, macOS, Linux Get a Security Fix for Zero-Day Exploit  Gadgets 360

Back in January I wrote how Valve is working on dynamic Variable Rate Shading (VRS) for the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" to dynamically control the shading performance to help with battery life. That work has now successfully been merged into Mesa 22.1 for the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack...

The Bcachefs file-system that was born out of the Linux kernel's block cache code has over the past few years matured greatly. Now in 2022 the core fundamentals of the file-system are "pretty close to done" and will hopefully be mainlined this calendar year into the Linux kernel...

Bcachefs Might Be Ready For Upstreaming In Linux This Year  Phoronix

With the forthcoming Linux 5.17 kernel there is the new AMD P-State driver aiming to provide better power efficiency than the ACPI CPUFreq driver that has long been used on AMD platforms. For complementing that AMD P-State driver, AMD has also been working on adding their CPU P-State support to Linux's cpupower tool...

Ahead of the Steam Deck beginning to ship at month's end, Valve overnight released Proton 7.0-1 as the newest version of their software that allows many Windows games to run on Linux with great success. Proton 7.0 is rebased against the new upstream Wine 7.0 while also having many other changes in tow...