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CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 19:00
The Wine developers at CodeWeavers who also collaborate with Valve on Steam Play's Proton have been working to enhance input device support for Proton/Wine gaming. In particular, for various gaming input devices that were never designed with Linux support in mind and various nuances around properly supporting them under Linux with different limitations from (X)Wayland to kernel driver handling...

Corsair Void Headset Driver Expected For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 18:40
For those that happen to have a Corsair Void headset or are looking for a new gaming headset this upcoming holiday season, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is expected to merge a new driver for these wired and wireless PC gaming headsets...

Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 18:25
Inkscape 1.4 released on Sunday as the newest version of this cross-platform, open-source vector graphics editor...

Llamafile 0.8.14 Introduces New CLI Chatbot Interface

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 18:14
Llamafile is the open-source project from Mozilla that allows distributing large language models as a single file that can work across operating systems, run on CPUs or GPUs, and all-around makes it much easier to distribute and run LLMs. This Mozilla Builders project ended out the weekend with a new feature release...

How to Disable Package Updates in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint

Tecmint - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 15:00
The post How to Disable Package Updates in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The Apt tool is an advanced package management system used in Debian-based Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, which allows you to

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How to Install ZRAM to Boost Ubuntu Performance

Tecmint - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 14:27
The post How to Install ZRAM to Boost Ubuntu Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re using Ubuntu and want to improve your system’s performance, especially on machines with limited RAM, ZRAM is a

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Linux 6.12-rc3 Released With Some Late NTFS Driver Enhancements

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 05:50
Linux 6.12-rc3 is out today as expected as the newest weekly release candidate in working Linux 6.12 toward a stable release in November...

Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:13
With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle...

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