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This Windows Installer Installs Linux  Hackaday

Intel's power management lead Rafael Wysocki posted a set of patches recently for working out asymmetic CPU capacity on hybrid Core x86 systems...

New Intel P-State Linux Driver Patches To Better Handle Hybrid Core CPUs  Phoronix

How to Fix Broken Packages on Linux  How-To Geek

Cirrus engineers have seen a number of patches queued into the Linux sound subsystem's "for-next" branch for enabling audio support on some new laptops with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.10 To Support Sound On ASUS ROG 2024 Laptops, Lenovo ThinkPad 13X  Phoronix

Synaptics this week published a big update to their out-of-tree graphics driver package for DisplayLink USB graphics...

Synaptics Releases DisplayLink 6.0 USB Graphics Driver Package For Linux  Phoronix

Mesa's Venus Vulkan driver has made cross-device functionality optional in order to enable QEMU support for this open-source driver for virtualized environments...

Ahead of the Linux 6.9-rc7 kernel being released later today, some last minute pull requests for the week have enabled some new bits of hardware support where only new device IDs are necessary and thus safe to add at this late stage of Linux 6.9 development...

ASUS ROG RAIKIRI & Lunar Lake Point M Device IDs Sent In For Linux 6.9-rc7  Phoronix

How To Update 8BitDo SF30 Pro Firmware on Ubuntu  OMG! Ubuntu!

Valve's Proton 9.0 update makes more Windows games playable on Linux, including The Finals  TechSpot

This Linux Distro Is Focused on Maximum Privacy and Anonymity, Here's How to Use It  How-To Geek

While on Linux the desktop environments, graphics stack, and other application software is steadily adopting Wayland support and focusing less on X11/X.Org support, the state of Wayland support and the open-source graphics driver stack in general is less robust among the BSDs. The NetBSD project published a status report around their ongoing dependence and modifications to their X.Org stack...

There's been a lot of improvements coming about in the GNOME desktop space thanks to the ongoing Sovereign Tech Fund and other initiatives toward GNOME 47...

In addition to all of the contributions Valve graphics engineers have been making to the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver, they have also begun investing in improvements to the open-source Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver too. With pending patches there is now explicit GPU synchronization support working for the NVK driver in conjunction with their Gamescope compositor...

Following yesterday's Wine 9.8 release that fixes a nearly 20 year old bug for installing Microsoft Office 97, Wine-Staging 9.8 is out today as the even more experimental blend of Wine that carries hundreds of extra patches that are going through a testing period toward upstreaming into the main codebase...

KDE developers have been busy the first few days of May with all eyes shifting to the upcoming Plasma 6.1 desktop...