XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse Being Quirked For Linux Support
The XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse boasts a 16K DPI sensor and retails for $65~80 USD but turns out it doesn't even work properly under Linux without a pending kernel patch...
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Deferred THP Insertion Nearing The Linux Kernel To Help Avoid Memory Waste
A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's "MM" memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged. This deferred Transparent Huge Page (THP) insertion aims to help reduce memory waste on Linux with some workloads...
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A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's 'MM' memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepagedwww.phoronix.com
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Wine 10.5 is out with ARM64 large page support, updated Mono 10.0, Bluetooth pairing, Vulkan H.264 decoding, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Linux 6.15 Performance Events Adds Support For AMD Zen 5 Load Latency Filtering
Merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.15 kernel were all of the performance events updates for which there are a few notable patches on the AMD and Intel side this cycle...
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When paired with the Blur My Shell extension on GNOME Shell, Tauon 8.0 looks seriously slick 😎 omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/tauon-…
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A new version of Tauon music player is out, gifting fans of the powerful and unique-looking audio app a raft of new features to play with – including some Linux exclusive eye candy! Tauon 8.0 [&h...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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In addition to all the KDE Plasma activity this week, GNOME developers have also been quiet busy working on a variety of improvements to the open-source desktop on their side of the pond.lxer.com
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SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds' gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…
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Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes
An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...
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Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...
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Vertical tabs have finally arrived in Firefox! The latest update adds that and a few other neat features, plus hardware video decoding on AMD GPUs for Linux users omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefo…
The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users following last week’s privacy palaver. ...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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One of the many reasons I like open-source software is that, unlike new Windows releases, it keeps getting better with every update and ne...Djalel Oukid (Blogger)
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Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code.lxer.com
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More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone
Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle...
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One month ago FreeDesktop.org/X.Org experienced a new cloud crisis with Equinix Metal shutting down and losing access to all the FreeDesktop.org cloud/hosting resources at the end of Aprillxer.com
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Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful
Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notified via this new wedged event when a GPU is hung in case user-space wants to take additional actions to try…
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March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/marc…
Welcome to March 2025 readers! Here's a gentle reminder that GamingOnLinux is primarily funded by readers - that's you! And we need your support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding
SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors...
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PeaZip 10.3 open-source and free archive manager is now available for download with better integration with GNOME and KDE Plasma desktops.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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An 'unfortunate incident' means the second point release of Ubuntu 24.04 won't arrive this week omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu…
If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week. Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate i...Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marv…
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Nice to see dedicated support like this from a massive game. Marvel Rivals had a small update that came with a fix for Bazzite Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/wayl…
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After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations
For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...
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Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards
The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards...
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Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets expanded NVIDIA support in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/bazz…
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If you're wanting something similar to SteamOS right now that has much wider hardware support for your gaming handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally, GPD, Ayaneo or even your laptop / desktop then Bazzite is likely one of the best choices…Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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