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Get ready to do some more testing NVIDIA users, as a fresh Beta just went up for their mainline Linux drivers with 465.19.01 now available. Plus, news for pass-through on virtual machines.

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This release is mainly a big cleanup of the mfplat stuff that was broken and should get most of the things working which were working before in addition to a few new fixes:
MFPlat/Video playback fi...

Ready for a long weekend testing out the latest Steam Play Proton compatibility layer? Good news! Valve announced the release of Proton 6.3-1 along with a Proton Experimental update. UPDATED: 07/04/21.

Haruna Video Player version 0.6.0 has been released today. The new version adds support for YouTube playlists, integration with MPRISv2 applets, more.

Learn how to use VCV Rack to make music with virtual modular synthesizers.

This article explains how to enable hardware acceleration in Chromium browser running on Raspberry Pi OS (for Raspberry Pi 4).

a vulkan post processing layer for linux. Contribute to DadSchoorse/vkBasalt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Explains how to install cpufetch, a fantastic CPU architecture info gathering tool for Linux, Android and macOS.

Explains how to display and read info pages in colors under Linux or Unix operating systems using pinfo command.

gImageReader is a free and open-source PDF reader with the ability to recognize and extract text from images and PDFs using Artificial Intelligence.

The new Firefox design change – code-named “Proton” is almost ready for release. Let’s take a look at how it looks and how to enable it. The Proton design is in “work-in-progress” for quite some time and we reported a quick preview earlier. They were mostly…

On Indiegogo: Firefly’s $122 and up “Station P2” mini-PC powers up with a quad -A55 Rockchip RK3568 with up to 8GB LPDDR4 and 64GB eMMC plus WiFi 6, 2x GbE with PoE+, 4x USB, HDMI, SATA, and M.2. Last year, T-Chip Technology’s Firefly community project launched…

This quick tutorial explains the steps to view saved WiFi password in Ubuntu and Other Linux. If you use wireless connections and frequently connect to a list of WiFi access points, then you tend to save the password for seamless connectivity in Ubuntu and…

FFmpeg 4.4 open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework arrives with hardware accelerated AV1 decoding and numerous other new features.

Another exciting moment for fans of Wayland and the future of Linux, especially if you're an NVIDIA user, as the work to provide hardware accelerated rendering for NVIDIA GPUs was merged in for Xwayland.

The Floating Dock GNOME Shell extension now supports the GNOME 40 desktop environment, allowing you to add a floating dock on your screen.

If you use Git regularly, you might be aware that it has several reputations.

Archinstall is guided/automated Arch Linux installer for those preferring a quick and easy way for deploying Arch Linux.