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Early Access CRPG Black Geyser Adds Mac And Linux Support  MMORPG.com

Building off the earlier DRM-Next staged code from last month that brought initial DisplayPort 2.0 support and other feature work, another feature pull request was submitted today of additional AMD Radeon "AMDGPU" kernel driver changes slated for Linux 5.16...

Wine 6.19 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine as the developers work towards Wine 7.0 stable in early 2022...

Become a master of Linux, Git, and more for less than $20  AndroidGuys

Developers finally get Linux running on an Apple M1-powered Mac  PC Gamer

The Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" within Mesa 21.3 is enabling NGG culling by default for Radeon RX 6000 series (RDNA2) GPUs and newer as another performance win...

'FontOnLake' Malware Family Targets Linux Systems  Dark Reading

AMD USB4 DisplayPort Tunneling Driver is Coming  Tom's Hardware

TICKR Feed Reader: An Elegant RSS Feed Reader for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Master Linux and Git with this $19 E-Learning Training Bundle  ExtremeTech

Four essential downloads for Linux administrators, and those who want to be one  TechRepublic

A month ago was talk of GCC developers enabling the vectorizer at the common "-O2" optimization level and now that change has landed into the GCC 12 development code-base...

Windows 11 bugs slow down AMD processors, AMD and Microsoft are working on a fix - comments  GSMArena.com

Cyber Security Today, Oct. 8, 2021 - New Linux malware, a new hacking group and a thick advisory report from Microsoft  IT World Canada

Cyber Security Today, Oct. 8, 2021 - New Linux malware, a new hacking group and a thick advisory report from Microsoft  ITBusiness.ca

Flatpak 1.12 was just released along with issuing Flatpak 1.10.4 to address a security vulnerability in the portal support...

A new batch of Intel kernel graphics driver code was mailed out today to DRM-Next for staging ahead of next month's Linux 5.16 kernel merge window. Lots of notable changes in this pull!..

Linux 5.16 To Add Intel Encrypted PXP, Alder Lake S Declared Stable & Ready  Phoronix

Asahi Linux cites progress, says that Linux is now “usable as a basic desktop” on M1-based Macs  O'Grady's Power Page

The xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver that is commonly in use for systems running an X.Org Server will soon find better support if you have a multi-monitor configuration where only some displays can support variable rate refresh (VRR / Adaptive-Sync / FreeSync)...