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Forza Horizon 5 gets a Proton Hotfix to work again on Steam Deck ...  GamingOnLinux

Queued up this week as part of the HID subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel test release has been a rather embarrassing bug: unplugging Logitech USB receivers has for the past several months been causing the Linux kernel to crash. After a number of bug reports around this issue from unplugging Logitech keyboard/mice receivers to simply switching away on a USB switch with the device(s) attached, the Linux 6.6-rc6 kernel is carrying the fix and it's also marked for back-porting to existing stable Linux kernel series...

Unplugging Logitech USB Receivers Has Been Causing The Linux Kernel To Crash  Phoronix

Over the past two weeks there has been a pleasant uptick in new commits to Coreboot as part of enabling EPYC 9004 "Genoa" series platform support...

More AMD EPYC Zen 4 "Genoa" Code Heads Into Coreboot  Phoronix

To 'Evolve' Windows Authentication, Microsoft Wants to Eventually ...  Slashdot

Next week in DRM-Next will hopefully see the patch promoting Intel Meteor Lake graphics to stable in time for the upcoming Linux 6.7 merge window. Ahead of that an i915 drm-intel-next pull request on Friday sent out more Meteor Lake patches while concurrently working on more driver enablement code for Lunar Lake...

Intel i915 Driver Prepares Finishing Touches For Meteor Lake, More ...  Phoronix

While Python 3.12 was just released earlier this month, already the first alpha release of Python 3.13 is now available for early-stage testing and evaluation...

Python 3.13 Alpha Kicks Off The Cycle With New Deprecations  Phoronix

More Patches For Next-Gen AMD GPU Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.7  Phoronix

On Friday AMD sent in another batch of feature patches that are ready for DRM-Next to in turn be upstreamed with the quickly approaching Linux 6.7 merge window. Most notable with this latest round of feature patches is enabling more next-generation graphics processor IP...

Wine-Staging 8.18 Brings Patch For An 8 Year Old Bug Report  Phoronix

Released on Friday was Wine 8.18 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Now available is Wine-Staging 8.18 as the more experimental blend of Wine that integrates just shy of 500 extra patches atop Wine...

Top Five Platforms to Learn Linux for Free  Techloy

Windows vs. Linux in Spielen: Der große Benchmark-Marathon  PC Games Hardware

C# Challenges Java in Programming Language Popularity  Slashdot

Merged to Mesa 23.3 this weekend is initial support in the V3D Gallium3D (OpenGL) and V3DV Vulkan drivers for the Broadcom VideoCore 7.1.x graphics IP that is found within the new Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer...

Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's ...  Phoronix

6 Linux Terminal Tips and Tricks to Get Things Done Quickly  MUO - MakeUseOf