The most common request from my recent ROG Ally benchmarking with the Ryzen Z1 SoC and also the Ryzen 7 7840U laptop SoC testing has been wanting to know how these Zen 4 mobile processors compete with Apple's M2 on Linux.

The DRM subsystem is slated to pickup a GPU Virtual Address 'VA' Manager with the Linux 6.6 kernel that is motivated by work around Vulkan sparse memory binding requirements.

Proton 8.0-3 is rolling out on Steam that powers Steam Play to enjoy the latest Windows games on Linux

Proton 8.0-3 compatibility tool for Steam Play is out with support for more Windows games to play on Linux, as well as various improvements.

The upcoming Firefox 116 open-source web browser will add hardware-accelerated H.264 video playback for Raspberry Pi 4 devices.

In addition to Proton 8.0-3 being released today for Steam Play, Wine 8.13 is out today as the latest bi-weekly release of this software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.

Following the annual Akademy KDE developer conference, more Plasma 6.0 changes have been landing for this major desktop environment release that will likely come in H1'2024. Among the very latest changes to the Plasma 6.0 desktop and related KDE applications…

Last month saw the first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.2 that introduces Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksums, and block cloning capabilities

WineConf as what had been the regularly hosted Wine developer conference for this open-source project devoted to running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms is likely over

Red Hat engineers are looking at making it more evident on Fedora IoT, CoreOS, and Server editions when firmware updates become available for the hardware in use.

Debian GNU/Linux 12.1 "Bookworm" is now available for download with 89 miscellaneous bug fixes and 26 security updates.

Building off last month's release of Debian 12.0, Debian 12.1 is out today to ship dozens of bug fixes.

Automatic IBRS is a new feature with AMD Zen 4 processors akin to Intel's Enhanced IBRS functionality

Shotwell 0.32.2 open-source image viewer is now available for download with support for HEIF image files with the .HIF extension.

MPV 0.36 is out today as the newest version of this open-source media player that was originally forked from the MPlayer/mplayer2 code and leveraging the FFmpeg library.

Inkscape 1.3 open-source scalable vector graphics editor is now available for download with new Shape Builder Tool and many improvements.

Neptune 8.0 distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 12 "Bookworm" and featuring the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop.

Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator.

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system is now officially supported on the RISC-V 64 (riscv64) hardware architecture.

Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.16 was the FUTEX2 code to help with Linux gaming needs particularly around Steam Play