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Asahi Linux gaming toolkit offers native dual boot and opens the door for more games on Apple silicon - Tested  Notebookcheck.net

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2...

EA bans Linux gamers from Apex Legends to 'meaningfully reduce' cheating in the battle royale  TweakTown

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization...

Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync  Phoronix

Optimize Text Search: Master the grep Command in Linux  Data Center Knowledge

Ubuntu tip of the day: Upgrading to the next major release  XDA Developers

Apex Legends Implements Controversial Change to Tackle Cheating Issues  Vpesports

Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. Following the recent GCC prep patches for Diamond Rapids to work on the ISA additions around AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AMX-FP32, and others, a new patch was posted today for actually exposing the "-march=diamondrapids" compiler target and in turn confirming all of the new ISA capabilities...

October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian Linux kernel drama, Linux 6.12 developments and early Linux 6.13 patches queuing in "-next" branches, October was an interesting month both for hardware and open-source software...

Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review: Deepfake targets Wiz, Black Basta leverages Teams, Russia’s Linux plans  CISO Series

Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed...

Steam Deck game support for Apex Legends is no more, thanks to EA Linux ban  PCGamesN

Miriway 24.10 was released on Halloween as the newest version of this Mir-based Wayland compositor. Miriway is developed by Canonical/Ubuntu developers as a compositor for other desktops like Xfce, MATE, LXQt and others as a way to ease their migration path to Wayland...

As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system...

The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animation...

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy  The Register

EA Says Linux Is Path for "Impactful Exploits and Cheats"  80.lv

For Real? EA Drops Linux (and Steam Deck) Support for Apex Legends to Curb Cheating  It's FOSS News

9 Desktop Effects to Add Eye Candy to Linux Mint  It's FOSS