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A great week for Linux gaming as GOG plans support, and Bazzite has "a brighter future" with new collab  PC Guide

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team last year addressed remaining issues in the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver so old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs could transition to using AMDGPU by default rather than the former "Radeon" kernel driver that is largely in maintenance mode for pre-GCN/RDNA GPUs. One caveat though was the GCN 1.1 APU support still having some limitations leading to Kaveri and friends not being able to use the modern AMDGPU DC "Display Core" code. But new patches from Timur take care of those limitations...

Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic  Phoronix

With Intel Panther Lake now shipping, open-source Intel engineers working on the client side are turning to tidying up support for their next target: Wildcat Lake. That more cost effective alternative to Panther Lake now has Intel Thermal Daemon support in getting ready for Linux desktops/laptops...

Linux Kernel Quietly Formalizes What Happens If Linus Torvalds Steps Away  Linuxiac

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC...

NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes  Phoronix

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

Open Gaming Collective Forms to Enhance Linux Gaming  TechPowerUp

Bazzite and ASUS Linux, ShadowBlip, PikaOS, Fyra Labs launch Open Gaming Collective  VideoCardz.com

Inside the Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG): A New Layer of Kernel Integrity Protection  Linux Journal

Nobara Linux: Gaming distribution with focus, not marketing  igor´sLAB

FOSS Weekly #26.05: Clawdbot Mania, NexPhone, Things We No Longer Use Terminal for and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Can't upgrade to Windows 11? I found the best Linux distro to replace your Windows 10 PC  ZDNET

Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released...

Bazzite reveals the Open Gaming Collective to make gaming on Linux even better  XDA

Microsoft's Quiet Exodus: Why Enterprise Developers Are Abandoning Windows for Linux Workstations  WebProNews

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further  GamingOnLinux

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

At the recent OpenShift Commons gathering in Atlanta, we had the opportunity to hear from Gustavo Fiuza, IT leader, and Welton Felipe, DevOps engineer, about the remarkable digital transformation at Banco do Brasil. As the second-largest bank in Latin America, they manage a massive scale, serving 87 million customers and processing over 900 million business transactions daily. We learned how they evolved from a siloed community Kubernetes environment to a highly efficient, hybrid multicloud platform powered by Red Hat OpenShift. Scalability through capabilities and hyperautomationA primary tak