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AMD has lost one of their leading LLVM compiler developers as well as serving as a Vulkan/SPIR-V expert with being involved in those Khronos specifications...

Steam will stop supporting Ubuntu Linux over 32-bit compatibility  Engadget

If you're a Linux gamer who prefers Ubuntu, you might want to look for another distribution in the near future. Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu i...

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.2-rc6 development kernel a day ahead of schedule to better fit around his summer travels...

Debuting two weeks ago was the Mesa 19.1 quarterly feature update while due out early next week is the first bug-fix point release...

Somewhat surprisingly, OpenBSD has added the Vulkan library and ICD loader support as their newest port...

In addition to the recent preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), Microsoft also kept to their word from the Build 2019 conference of issuing their first preview of "Windows Terminal" in June. The first of several preview releases of Windows Terminal is now available from the Microsoft Store...

1. Ubuntu 19.10 Dropping 32-bit Support Puts Developers in Trouble  It's FOSS
2. Steam will stop supporting Ubuntu Linux over 32-bit compatibility  Engadget
3. Steam Won’t Support Ubuntu 19.10 and Future Releases  How-To Geek
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As some good news this week amid all the 32-bit Linux gaming drama this week and the networking snafu... Valve is now funding another developer to work on upstream open-source code, in particular on the KDE side this time with a developer who had been working for Blue Systems...

Just hours after releasing Wine 4.11, the team maintaining the experimental/testing version of Wine -- Wine-Staging -- issued their release with more than 800 patches re-based on top...

It's been a year since the release of PulseAudio 12 and even eleven months since the last point release but it looks like the next PulseAudio release will be out very soon...

The planned dropping of 32-bit support on Ubuntu saga continues... Well known Valve Linux developer Pierre-Loup Griffais has said they plan to officially stop supporting Ubuntu for Steam on Linux...

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The Sublime Text 3 editor is a paid source code editor with a Python API available in the apt repository of Ubuntu for installation and updates.

Install Visual studio code on Ubuntu 19.04 Linux  H2S Media

A simple way to install Visual studio code on Linux Ubuntu 19.04/18.04/16.04 by adding the offcial repository of Microsoft VS Code using Command Terminal.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look Cloudflare's open source random number generator, more open source robotics data, new npm functionality, and more!

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As a follow-up to the issue reported on Friday regarding the latest Linux kernel releases causing problems for Valve's Steam client, a fix appears pending that with changing around one line of code does appear to address the regression...

Three Linux router boards showcase Qualcomm IPQ4019  LinuxGizmos.com

Three router SBCs that run Linux on Qualcomm's quad -A7 IPQ4019 have reached market: The Dakota DR4019 with 2x GbE, optional SFP and Wave2 WiFi, ...

Wine 4.11 is out tonight as the latest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

'Bulls%^t! Complete bull$h*t!' Reset the clock on the last time woke Linus Torvalds exploded at a Linux kernel dev  The Register

Linux kernel chieftain Linus Torvalds owes the swear jar a few quid this week, although by his standards this most recent rant of his is relatively restrained.

You Can Now Buy Linux Notebooks Powered by Zorin OS from Star Labs  Softpedia News

Two new notebooks come pre-installed with Zorin OS 15.

In response to the decision to drop 32-bit x86 support beginning in Ubuntu 19.10, Alan Pope of Canonical and longtime Ubuntu member decided to try running some GOG games under an Ubuntu 19.10 daily build that he configured to remove the 32-bit packages ahead of the actual removal. Unfortunately, his experience didn't go so smoothly...