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Released last month was OBS Studio 30 with Intel QSV AV1 acceleration on Linux, WHIP/WebRTC output, YouTube Live Control Room Panel support, and a variety of other features for this software popular with game streamers and live-casting. Out today is OBS Studio 30.0.1 with some crash fixes and other refinements for last month's update...

Week in review: Booking.com hotel booking scam, Kali Linux 2023.4 released  Help Net Security

Lubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ship with Optional Wayland Session, Improved Installer  9to5Linux

Earlier Phoronix reporting on the "Valve Galileo" as a new Steam Deck device proved accurate and that is the new Steam Deck OLED gaming console. Further improving the upstream Linux kernel support is a set of patches to further refine the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) support for this new platform...

Improved Sound Open Firmware On The Way For Valve's Steam Deck OLED  Phoronix

Hold Off Debian Upgrades: Kernel 6.1.64 ext4 Bug Alert  Linuxiac

How to Use the sar Command on Linux  How-To Geek

Following last week's initial set of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 6.8, another weekly pull request was submitted on Friday to DRM-Next of further changes...

AMD Lands More Graphics Updates For Linux 6.8: More MI300 & RDNA3 Refresh Work  Phoronix

In addition to Intel preparing to merge their new Xe kernel graphics driver into the mainline kernel potentially for Linux 6.8, their existing open-source Intel kernel graphics driver code continues to be improved upon and receiving new features...

Intel Graphics With Linux 6.8 To Add FDINFO Memory Stats, More Meteor Lake Workarounds  Phoronix

Humble brings back popular bundles for a limited time like Must-Play Metroidvanias  GamingOnLinux

With the recent €1M in funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, GNOME developers remain quite busy working on improving the accessibility and security of the GNOME desktop...

It's a Christmas season of bug fixing in the KDE world as following the late November Plasma 6.0 Beta 1 they've shifted from feature work to fixes and with the new test release has received an influx of bug reports...

Last year W4 Games was formed by Godot game engine developers as part of an effort to strengthen the open-source Godot ecosystem as well as work on commercial products and services, such as integrating with the proprietary game console/cloud platforms. They started out with $8.5 million dollars last year while this week announced a series A funding round of $15M...

Basic Linux Commands. Reviewing Basic Linux Commands you… | by Orion | Dec, 2023  Medium

Thai telecoms' Linux systems subjected to Krasue RAT compromise  SC Media

Windows-Style Blue Screen of Death Coming to Linux  WebProNews

Linux Mint 21.3 beta now available for download with Cinnamon 6.0  Notebookcheck.net

The release process has begun for releasing Wine 9.0 as stable early next year...