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15 Best Linux Games You Should Be Playing in 2023

Tecmint - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 14:00
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Video gaming, introduced in the last century with the earliest example being the ‘Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device‘ developed in 1947 by Thomas T. Goldsmith

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XWayland's Rootful Mode Is Becoming More Useful

Phoronix - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 04:36
Most Linux desktop users/gamers/enthusiasts are relying on XWayland for X11 client compatibility atop Wayland compositors in the "rootless" mode. With the XWayland rootless mode, X11 applications and games can integrate nicely within a Wayland desktop environment with just the individual client window presented. However, for those interested, the XWayland "rootful" mode has become more capable this year for those wanting to render an entire X11 environment within the Wayland compositor as a window...

AXI 1-Wire Driver Is AMD's Latest Upstreaming Effort To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 02:55
Since AMD's acquisition of Xilinx and working to broaden the portfolio of offerings for the data center, more AMD-Xilinx drivers have been working their way toward the mainline Linux kernel. There's been upstreaming efforts such as the Versal EDAC driver, generating DeviceTree nodes for PCI devices, Versal watchdog driver, QDMA driver, CDX bus support, and more. The latest driver working its way toward the mainline kernel from AMD is the AXI 1-wire driver...

The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless Linux Systems

Phoronix - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 01:24
The VKMS driver as a virtual kernel mode-setting solution as a software-only implementation of KMS for use with primarily headless Linux systems continues tacking on more features. Maíra Canal and Melissa Wen presented last week at XDC 2023 on the VKMS driver that continues proving very useful for headless platforms as well as for testing purposes...

RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using RDNA3 WMMA

Phoronix - Tue, 10/24/2023 - 23:33
As yet another open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver change ahead of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 code branching and feature freeze is Vulkan VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix support with the RADV driver for RDNA3 hardware and newer using the GPU's Wavefront Mixed-precision Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) functionality...

Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT)

Phoronix - Tue, 10/24/2023 - 21:12
As we approach the end of 2023, sadly, the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support still hasn't been mainlined... The main blocker pending is still the ongoing work around non-blocking consoles / threaded console handling to then allow the few dozen remaining out-of-tree RT kernel patches to be merged. The good news is that when the PREEMPT_RT support is ready for mainline, it looks like the RISC-V architecture support will also be real-time friendly too...

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