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Unity is targeting better native performance on Linux, focusing on Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine  PC Guide

Unity expands official support for Steam, Linux, Steam Deck, and Steam Machine  VideoCardz.com

Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake Review  Phoronix

Intel CPU Security Mitigation Costs From Haswell Through Panther Lake Review  Phoronix

Over the past month on Phoronix there have been a lot of benchmarks of Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" with the Core Ultra X7 358H. One of the areas of Panther Lake not explored yet is around the CPU security mitigation impact, which is the focus of today's benchmarking. The performance tests today are not only looking at the impact of the Core Ultra X7 SoC at its default versus running in a "mitigations=off" configuration but also comparing the overall CPU security mitigation impact with the run-time toggle going back all the way to Intel Haswell era laptops.

EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution. There is a lot of updates as part of this routine ISO refresh as well as some new tooling and GPU driver integration enhancements...

EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration  Phoronix

EndeavourOS Titan Released with Linux Kernel 6.19 and KDE Plasma 6.6  9to5Linux

Anbernic RG Vita Series Technical Specifications Hardware Details and RG Vita Pro Specs Android 14 Linux AI Features  Technetbook

SUSE Linux Up for Sale Again, Valued at $6 Billion  National Today

Rabbit Cyberdeck Modern Linux Device for AI and Programming Featuring OLED Screen and Mechanical Keyboard  Technetbook

Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin...

AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code  Phoronix

7 essential keyboard shortcuts every Linux Mint user should know  How-To Geek

AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium...

In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year...

Unity Engine to Enhance Linux Support  Steam Deck HQ

Mesa 26.0.2 arrives with more bug-fixes for Linux graphics drivers  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE)...