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Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now  GamingOnLinux

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now  GamingOnLinux

In addition to Igalia working with Valve on AMD color management / HDR, Igalia engineers have also been working on the open-source Raspberry Pi kernel and Mesa drivers for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This work includes the timely enablement of the new Raspberry Pi 5 hardware support...

Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics ...  Phoronix

Just as IBM was posting "future" processor compiler patches in 2019 for what ended up being early POWER10 enablement, they are once again repeating their same compiler enablement technique with sending out "PowerPC future" patches for what is likely to be POWER11...

IBM Begins Posting "PowerPC Future" Compiler Patches For What Is ...  Phoronix

Check out the XDC 2023 talks on HDR + Color Management for ...  GamingOnLinux

BlackCat ransomware uses new 'Munchkin' Linux VM in stealthy ...  BleepingComputer

Why do customer subscribe to local support from UR Solutions when the enterprise, military, government agencies, and financial institutions in the Philippines when they already have their system administrators?

Written By: Kyle David October 19, 2023 14:52 UTC+8
Revised By: Jason Reidenbach November 6, 2023

Bored of Windows? Even Microsoft wants you to try Linux with a rather helpful guide  Neowin

How to Fix the pip "externally-managed-environment" Error on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 adds offline support for Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Friedrich Vock with Valve presented yesterday at XDC 2023 on the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance. Last year at XDC 2022 it was dubbed "the world's slowest raytracer" but thanks to the work done by Valve and others, the RADV ray-tracing performance is now quite capable and also enabled by default since Mesa 23.2. The RADV ray-tracing performance also continues inching closer to the AMDVLK Vulkan performance for that official open-source AMD Vulkan driver...

Multi-grain(ed) timestamps had been submitted for Linux 6.6 to better deal with NFS where the once-per-jiffy coarse-grained timestamps aren't enough for (in)validating caches. Multi-grained timestamps sought to address that by optionally allowing for the more fine-grained timestamps when desired but not using that finer granularity everywhere due to the greater overhead costs. This feature though ended up being reverted weeks later due to subtle bugs being uncovered. Now though a new redux patch series has been posted for providing another attempt at multi-grained timestamps...

Multi-Grained Timestamps Revised Following Revert From Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Just a year away from Windows 12, Microsoft Windows 11 still can't best Linux (Ubuntu)  Neowin

Following other Intel oneAPI components like Embree and OpenVKL introducing GPU acceleration via SYCL, today Intel released the open-source OSPRay 3.0 that rolls out initial GPU support for this portable ray-tracing engine...

Intel Releases OSPRay 3.0 With Initial GPU Acceleration  Phoronix

Moonlight and Sunshine game and desktop streaming updates out ...  GamingOnLinux

The Linux Foundation Announces General Availability of Delta Lake ...  PR Newswire