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Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...

Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation  Phoronix

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...

I tried this self-hosted Cron dashboard for managing my automated Linux tasks  XDA

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...

Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland  Phoronix

5 More Beginner-Friendly Linux Distros  How-To Geek

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...

Week in review: Backdoor found in SOHO devices running Linux, high-risk WinRAR RCE flaw patched  Help Net Security

Every Windows user should keep a live version of Linux handy — here's why  XDA

5 reasons I prefer this distro over Ubuntu as a Windows-to-Linux convert  XDA

I'd give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld  Android Authority

Linux Desktop: What Makes KDE Plasma So Appealing?  The New Stack

Linux Phones, the New HDMI, and More: Weekly Roundup  How-To Geek

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with this security feature...

Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs  Phoronix

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...

Threat Actors Exploit Windows and Linux Server Vulnerabilities to Deploy Web Shells  GBHackers News

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place...