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Last year the KDAB consulting firm typically associated with Qt work published KDGpu as a thin Vulkan wrapper to make it easier leveraging this graphics API. Out today is KDGpu v0.5 with many improvements to this Vulkan wrapper...

New Linux patches spotted for Intel's Lunar Lake and Xe2 ray-tracing support  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Linux in the Metaverse: Building Virtual Worlds With Open-Source Tools  ITPro Today

Linux OS Recent News  ITPro Today

CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw  The Hacker News

Intel Pushes Out New Linux Patches For Lunar Lake & Xe2 GPU Ray-Tracing Enablement  Wccftech

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While VKD3D-Proton that is bundled with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) is the most common source for mapping Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API for Windows games on Linux, Wine's VKD3D upstream continues to be developed. Out today is VKD3D 1.12 as the newest feature release for this open-source D3D12-on-Vulkan implementation...

Transmission 4.0.6 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Various Fixes  9to5Linux

GstarCAD 2024 for Linux is available  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

GstarCAD 2024 for Linux is available  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...

A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution. Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud...

Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors  Phoronix

SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"  GamingOnLinux

Framework is out today with some exciting announcements from lowering the price of the existing Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoC to announcing a new Framework Laptop 13 powered by Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) and having a new 2.8K display option for this modular/upgradeable laptop shipping this summer...

The supervillains won, so fight back in superhero strategy game Capes - out now  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 are out  The Register

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AlmaLinux 8.10 released as end of the RHEL 8 line looms  The Register

Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support.