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DXVK is an important piece of Steam Play (Proton) that over time expanded to supporting Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and even D3D8 too. Meanwhile VKD3D-Proton delivers Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan. Now there is a fork of the DXVK project working to bring Direct3D 7 support atop Vulkan...

D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan  Phoronix

Amazon Confirms WorkSpaces Linux Client Authentication Issue  Forbes

Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing  Phoronix

New code likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel would introduce ML-DSA/Dilithium post-quantum cryptography to be initially used for dealing with kernel module signing...

I found a Linux tool for private browsing that isn’t a VPN or Tor  MakeUseOf

How much RAM does your Linux PC really need? My expert advice for 2025  ZDNET

Critical CVE-2025-12779 Vulnerability Exposes Amazon WorkSpaces for Linux Users to Token Theft  The Cyber Express

3 handy Linux apps to worth trying this weekend (November 7 - 9)  How-To Geek

Linux software management made simple with Discover  Tom's Hardware

Penguin Solutions Adds Oracle Linux OS Support to Stratus ztC Endurance Fault-Tolerant Platforms  ARC Advisory Group

A new driver planned to be sent to the mainline Linux kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window is yet another new contribution from Microsoft...

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification. Besides a number of documentation clarifications/corrections, there is one new extension this week in the name of AI / machine learning...

Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR) support within the common Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) / display code...

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Expands with Growing Demand  openPR.com

Linux Mint's upcoming changes include a customizable Cinnamon Start Menu, a System Information tool  gHacks Technology News

Amazon WorkSpaces For Linux Vulnerability Let Attackers Extract Valid Authentication Token  CyberSecurityNews

Amazon WorkSpaces for Linux Vulnerability Allows Extraction of Valid Auth Tokens  Cyber Press

The best Linux distro for Windows 10 escapees is getting a little bit better  XDA

Last week Canonical announced Ubuntu "architecture variants" with initially supporting "amd64v3" optimized packages built using the x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level. For this initial debut in the Ubuntu 25.10 archive an initial subset of packages are built using that higher feature level that can assume AVX/AVX2 and other more recent CPU ISA additions. More details on that and some initial desktop benchmarks can be found within the Ubuntu 25.10 amd64v3 Benchmarks article. Complementing that are some Ubuntu Server 25.10 benchmarks carried out on an AMD EPYC "Turin" server of the base amd64 packages versus amd64v3...