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The FFmpeg multimedia library has been making progress with its Vulkan Video API support while this week an interesting change was merged for ffplay, FFmpeg's built-in simple multimedia player. The ffplay player now has a built-in Vulkan renderer provided by libplacebo as an optional means of hardware acceleration...

FFmpeg's ffplay Media Player Adds Vulkan Renderer  Phoronix

Following last week's KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha release with more enthusiasts beginning to test out the next-generation KDE desktop stack, there's been a spike in bug reports. KDE developers are on it working to address these bugs ahead of the Plasma 6.0 stable release at the end of February...

KDE Addressing A Spike In Bug Reports Following The Plasma 6 ...  Phoronix

The Best Docker Alternatives for 2023  TechRepublic

A few days ago the Wine Wayland driver merged HiDPI support improvements and now for ending out the week is yet more work to land for Wine's Wayland driver: the first bits of Vulkan enablement...

Vulkan Support Begins Landing For Wine's Wayland Driver  Phoronix

Olimex Shows Off an Open-Hardware-Powered Linux-Based Autonomous Drone Swarm  Hackster.io

Olimex Shows Off an Open-Hardware Linux-Based Autonomous Drone Swarm  Hackster.io

Russia's Linux-based Alt OS now supports Chinese LoongArch CPUs  Tom's Hardware

What Is Fedora Onyx? An Immutable Budgie-Based Linux Distro  MUO - MakeUseOf

The most significant limitation of Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with the existing open-source driver stack has been the lack of sparse resources support that is needed for many newer games to work via Steam Play on Linux. Intel has a proper solution in place with their yet-to-be-merged Xe kernel driver while now for Mesa 24.0 their ANV Vulkan driver has landed an implementation that works with the existing i915 kernel driver...

This weekend marks 25 years already since Valve originally released Half-Life! In celebration of this milestone, Valve released today the Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update that now includes official Steam Deck support, Steam networking and controller support, updated graphics settings, and more...

Valve Updates Half-Life For 25th Anniversary - Adds Official Steam ...  Phoronix

System76 have some great discounts on various Linux hardware  GamingOnLinux

Run MacOS VM's in Docker on Windows & Linux with Docker-OSX  OSXDaily

Linux 6.7 Features Include Bcachefs, Stable Meteor Lake Graphics ...  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.7 merge window having closed on Sunday, here's a recap of all the interesting new features to find with this new kernel. Linux 6.7 stable will be out either in the final days of 2023 or more than likely in the early days of next year.

How to Find Where apt Installed That Package on Debian and Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

As noted a few weeks back, NVIDIA is working to add OpenACC support to the upstream LLVM Clang compiler for this parallel computing standard. Today that work began landing in LLVM/Clang's development codebase...