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While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop...

OBS Studio 31.0 was released this evening as the newest feature update to this open-source, cross-platform software for live streaming and desktop screen recording purposes. OBS Studio remains a leading choice across operating systems for screen recording, game livestreaming, and similar purposes while the new v31.0 release tacks on even more features...

Wine 10.0-rc1 brings major Windows compatibility updates to Linux  BetaNews

Path of Exile 2 now in Early Access and it works on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.12 officially named new LTS kernel  Notebookcheck.net

Respawn reveal Linux ban reduced number of Apex games with cheaters by 33%  Esports.gg

The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January...

The next LTS Linux kernel is no surprise but it is packed with goodies  ZDNet

Huawei preps new Kunpeng CPU with HBM — Linux patches point to an unannounced Kunpeng Arm server SoC  Tom's Hardware

Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here's the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new hardware support, and other kernel changes coming for Linux 6.13.

Linux Foundation Report Spotlights Open Source Software Package Challenges  DevOps.com

Filippo Valsorda's "frood" Is a Hoopy Immutable NAS Running Entirely From an Initial RAM Filesystem  Hackster.io

Linux 6.12 Kernel Confirmed as Long-Term Support  OMG! Ubuntu!

Box64 v0.3.2 Emulator Adds Box32 Option, Introduces Native Flags & More  Phoronix

Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Box64 is one of the leading ways for allowing x86_64 games and Steam to be able to run on ARM 64-bit Linux devices...

This Linux Theme Gave Me the Windows 95 Experience in 2024  How-To Geek

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Released with Simplified and Smoother Upgrades  9to5Linux

Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada - Part 3  Embedded Computing Design

New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC...