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Proton 7.0-5 RC Gets More Windows Games Running On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 07:08
Valve is preparing to roll-out Proton 7.0-5 as the newest version of this Wine-derived software that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux. For facilitating some testing prior to the formal Proton 7.0-5, a release candidate was published today...

libcamera Celebrates Its First Release As Camera Support Library For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 03:00
Libcamera has been in development for several years now as an open-source camera support library that works across Linux, Android, and Chrome OS platforms. Due to interest from seeing tagged releases, the libcamera crew has published their first official release of this open-source camera stack...

Open 3D Engine 22.10 Released With Better Multiplayer Support, Usability Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 02:30
Ahead of O3DCON kicking off tomorrow in Austin, Texas as a developer event around the Open 3D Engine game engine backed by the Linux Foundation and numerous organizations, O3DE 22.10 has been released...

DisplayPort 2.1 Spec Published - All DP 2.0 Devices Compatible

Phoronix - Tue, 10/18/2022 - 01:11
VESA today announced the publishing of the DisplayPort 2.1 specification. As a pleasant change, VESA has been working behind the scenes to see that all DisplayPort 2.0 certified products are actually forward-compatible with this more strict DisplayPort 2.1 specification...

Linux 6.1 Features Include Initial Rust Code, MGLRU, New AMD CPU Features, More Security

Phoronix - Mon, 10/17/2022 - 21:07
Now that Linux 6.1-rc1 was released, here is my look at all of the interesting kernel changes and new features that landed over the past two weeks. Linux 6.1 is shaping up to be another exciting kernel with many new software features, new hardware enablement work, and other changes for this end-of-year 2022 kernel version that is also likely to be the next Linux LTS release.

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