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While Intel Arc Graphics continue enjoying performance optimizations with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, the major limitation facing Arc Graphics on Linux right now for gamers is the lack of sparse residency support that is needed for running many newer games on Linux with Intel graphics -- particularly newer Windows D3D12 titles running on Linux via Valve's Steam Play

MySQL 8.1 is available today with the community server builds now available for this latest major update to this popular SQL database server.

GNU Shepherd is the Guile-written service manager for handling daemons that is most notably used by the GNU Guix project as an alternative to the likes of SysV and systemd

A set of 35 patches were posted on Sunday for introducing ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) support to the Linux kernel

There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or 'decrapification' as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support

CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 is now shipping as Microsoft's newest in-house Linux distribution release.

In addition to Intel engineers being responsible for much of the Linux kernel driver work around USB4 and Thunderbolt, they have now published thunderbolt-utils as a collection of user-space utilities for managing USB4/Thunderbolt on Linux environments.

A new version of Canonical's Mir display server was released today that these days serves as a library for building Wayland-based shells.

NVIDIA today published their latest stable point release in the R535 Linux driver series to fix a variety of outstanding issues.

The newest weekly test version of the Linux 6.5 kernel is now available for evaluation and looking out for any bugs/regressions.