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Today's release of Linux 5.12-rc5 is "bigger than average" for this stage of kernel development and if that keeps up is likely to result in an extra week's worth of testing / an -rc8 release ahead of Linux 5.12 final, but it's too early to call at this stage...

Linux 5.12-rc5 Released - It's Bigger Than Average  Phoronix

While Godot receives much of the - well deserved - attention when it comes to open-source, cross-platform game engines, another deserving contender is the Flax Engine that just reached v1.0 last year after going public in 2018...

Flax Engine 1.1 Released For This Impressive Open-Source 3D Game Engine  Phoronix

This month saw many new and updated test profiles for the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org for carrying out fully-automated, reproducible cross-platform benchmarking...

Many New/Updated Benchmarks For March With New SDR/Radio Tests, More Code Compilation  Phoronix

8 Best Linux distro for gaming in 2021 to install on PC or laptop  H2S Media

Linux games on the rise thanks to the Steam catalog – Explica .co  Explica

Building The Dolphin Emulator In Ubuntu On A Nintendo Switch  Hackaday

An interesting open-source project that has been brought up now a few times by Phoronix readers is Box86 for allowing 32-bit x86 programs to run unmodified on non-x86 Linux systems like ARM...

Box86 Continues Quest For Running x86 Linux Programs On ARM, Other Archs  Phoronix

Two weeks ago Wine-Staging 6.4 was at nearly 700 patches while this weekend's release of Wine-Staging 6.5 lowers that to 661 patches thanks to a number of them being upstreamed...

Mesa developers are currently discussing the raising of the default compiler baseline for Mesa drivers moving forward, which would raise the base CPU requirements for these open-source Mesa drivers unless overriding the compiler flags. However, all but the very oldest systems would be negatively impacted...

How to Back Up a Crostini Linux Installation on Your Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Back Up a Crostini Linux Installation on Your Chromebook  MakeUseOf

While Debian 11.0 is brewing and currently under a hard freeze, Debian 10.9 is out this weekend as the latest stable update to Debian 10 "Buster"...

How to Scan Documents in Linux With SANE's Most Useful Commands  MUO - MakeUseOf

Standard mouse functionality of Apple's Magic Mouse 2 works currently under Linux but the "hid-magicmouse" mainline driver might finally be extended to fully support the Magic Mouse 2...

The Linux Kernel Might Finally See Proper Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2  Phoronix

Glonal Linux Operating System Market 2021 Industry Outlook, Research, Key Trends and Forecast to 2026 – The Bisouv Network  The Bisouv Network