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Linux Kernel dev bans University of Minnesota for sending malicious patches

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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Here is your daily dose of WTF. Linux Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has called out "researchers" from the University of Minnesota and banned them from submitting code to the Linux Kernel.
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Discord has reportedly ended talks with Microsoft to remain independent

By Liam Squires-Hand,
15
How about some good news to start your Wednesday off? It seems Discord are no longer in talks with Microsoft and instead may go with an IPO (initial public offering).
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Make sure your NVIDIA drivers are up to date, new security issues detailed

By Liam Squires-Hand,
13
NVIDIA has today revealed a bunch of new vulnerabilities in the GPU drivers that affect both Linux and Windows.
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Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 brings Vulkan Ray Tracing in preview

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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While work is ongoing in Mesa to get AMD GPUs to support Ray Tracing, AMD directly have released Radeon Software for Linux 21.10 that brings along support to Linux.
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Metro Exodus for Linux to run better on AMD GPUs soon with a Mesa fix now merged

By Liam Squires-Hand,
48
The new Linux port of Metro Exodus sadly came with a rough launch but for AMD GPU owners it's set to get more playable, with a fix in the Mesa RADV driver now merged.
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DOTA: Dragon's Blood was so popular a second season is confirmed

By Liam Squires-Hand,
3
As a quick update for fans of Valve's MOBA, Dota 2, it has been confirmed that the Anime series they teamed up with Netflix for DOTA: Dragon's Blood is getting a second season.
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What have you been playing? Have a Sunday chat with us

By Liam Squires-Hand,
53
Another week comes to a close and there's been a number of fun releases lately - so come have another community chat in the comments about what you've been playing.
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The Sunday Papers - Linux and Gaming odds and ends

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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It's Sunday, a time for coffee, a sit in the sun and perhaps a little gaming? Time for a small round-up of some missed bits we wanted to go over recently.
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Zorin OS 16 gets a Beta with 'the largest library of apps' available on any Linux desktop

By Liam Squires-Hand,
19
The Zorin team are making some bold claims with the release of the Ubuntu-based Zorin OS 16 Beta that anyone can go ahead and try out now. It sure does look slick!
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Eagre Games developer of surreal adventure ZED closes down

By Liam Squires-Hand,
7
ZED, a completely surreal first-person walking-sim adventure released back in 2019 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. Sadly it seems it didn't do well overall.
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NVIDIA 465.24.02 stable driver rolls out for Linux

By Liam Squires-Hand,
8
Get ready to upgrade your NVIDIA drivers once again, as NVIDIA has today rolled out the 465.24.02 stable driver.
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System76 announce COSMIC, their own GNOME-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS

By Liam Squires-Hand,
48
Pop!_OS from Linux hardware vendor System76 is set to get a massive upgrade when Pop!_OS 21.04 releases, as they've announced COSMIC - their very own desktop environment.
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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 455.50.12 rolls out with new Vulkan Video extensions

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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As expected, NVIDIA continue to be at the forefront of new and improved Vulkan support as they've today rolled out the 455.50.12 Vulkan Beta Driver.
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Vulkan Video announced with new provisional extensions along with Vulkan 1.2.175 released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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Vulkan, the graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs expands further with Vulkan Video and some provisional extensions.
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Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation speak up on Stallman's return

By Liam Squires-Hand,
26
Recently a big controversy surrounding the Free Software Community appeared and cut deep into the community when it was announced without warning that Richard Stallman (RMS) had returned.
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Check out the Linux system specs needed for the Metro Exodus port releasing April 14

By Liam Squires-Hand,
27
Metro Exodus will be officially releasing for Linux on April 14, ahead of the release 4A Games and Deep Silver have put out some new system requirements.
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Get three months FREE of Stadia Pro thanks to Lenovo

By Liam Squires-Hand,
18
Want to get some free Pro time on Google Stadia? Here's a chance for you if you act quick enough as Lenovo are giving away 3 months of Stadia Pro for FREE.
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Build engine port backed by GZDoom tech 'Raze' has a 1.0 release with Vulkan support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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Raze is a fresh attempt to bring together many different games under one roof including Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior and Exhumed/Powerslave.
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Grape times ahead with the release of Wine 6.6 noting plenty of fixes

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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No wine-ing about the puns please. Jokes aside, the tasty compatibility tech that is Wine has a new development release available today with Wine 6.6.
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Xwayland work for hardware accelerated NVIDIA support has been merged in

By Liam Squires-Hand,
19
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.
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