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Proton Experimental gets fixes for Farlight 84, Shadow Warrior 2, video improvements for 32bit games  GamingOnLinux

Intel's IDXD driver is what enables the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) under Linux as found since Sapphire Rapids as part of Intel's accelerator offerings on their Xeon processors. With patches posted today, the IDXD driver will help the hardware recover in case of errors to provide a more robust experience...

Intel IDXD Driver To Better Handle Accelerators In Event Of Hardware Errors  Phoronix

How to Install DuckStation for Playing PS1 Games on Linux  hackernoon.com

Back in Linux 6.9 the Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC support was upstreamed for that MIPS-based platform powering Mobileye's level-5 autonomous driving system. With the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel, support for the newer Mobileye EyeQ6 is being upstreamed...

Linux 6.11 To Upstream Support For Mobileye EyeQ 6H SoC  Phoronix

One of several nice Linux performance optimizations recently by Eric Biggers of Google has been speeding up DM-Verity via multi-buffer hashing. DM-Verity is used for transparent integrity checking of block devices and this multi-buffer hashing code looks like it will land with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle...

Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost  Phoronix

You can apparently run an entire OS in Google Drive, but you definitely shouldn't  XDA Developers

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space...

Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness  Phoronix

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today  GamingOnLinux

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today  GamingOnLinux

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 15 years old today  GamingOnLinux

While there were plans of adding getrandom() in the vDSO with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window to speed up user-space random number generation access, Linus Torvalds is unconvinced by the work and intends to reject any pull request with it for Linux 6.11...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released Raspberry Pi OS 2024-07-04 as the newest update to this default operating system for Raspberry Pi ARM single board computers...

Finnix 126 now available for download as a super-light Linux distro under 500 MB in size  Notebookcheck.net

Linux Operating System Market worth $67.43 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 19.90% - Exclusive Report by ...  openPR

Oracle releases experimental next-gen kernel build  The Register

Sick of Microsoft? How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  PCMag