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As part of a monthly status update concerning Plasma 6 development, KDE developer Nate Graham confirmed that the team is planning to release Plasma 6.0 in February of 2024...

MAR-10454006.r5.v1 SUBMARINE, SKIPJACK, SEASPRAY ...  CISA

CentOS Linux is Coming to an End: What Does that Mean for ...  TechEconomy.ng

Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver has landed a set of 15 patches that can further help the Linux gaming performance for those using DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics...

Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Another Open-Source Vulkan Driver Performance Optimization  Phoronix

The first alpha release of the OpenSSL 3.2 library is now available for testing. With OpenSSL 3.2 there are a number of new features, most notably the client-side work around QUIC support...

Going along with the MSM DRM driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno 700 series, the open-source TURNIP Vulkan driver this week merged its initial support for the Adreno 700 series...

In addition to the HID updates bringing rumble for Google's Stadia controller and other gaming peripheral improvements, the input subsystem updates were sent out this week for Linux 6.6 that bring more enhancements for Linux gamers. In particular, the common XPad driver saw some additions for this next kernel version...

XPad Driver Extends Gaming Controller Support With Linux 6.6  Phoronix

How to Take Screenshots on a Laptop or Desktop Using Windows, macOS or Linux  Gadgets 360

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The Linux Foundation launched the LFCS (Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin) certification, a shiny chance for system administrators everywhere to demonstrate, through a performance-based exam, that

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AtlasVPN Linux Zero-Day Disconnects Users, Reveals IP Addresses  OODA Loop

Top 7 Lesser-Known Linux Distributions You Need to Explore  Medium

A few days ago Bcachefs was proposed for inclusion to Linux 6.6 after it failed to be pulled for the prior Linux 6.5 kernel cycle. Since then we've been waiting to see what action Linus Torvalds would take with including Bcachefs... He's finally commented on it today but remains to be seen if it will land for this kernel release...

Linus Torvalds Comments On Bcachefs Prospects For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Igalia developers are working on extending the Broadcom V3D DRM kernel graphics driver, which is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi devices, to support the notion of "CPU jobs" in kernel space to assist in their Vulkan support. These CPU jobs are for assisting the support where their Broadcom GPU driver isn't capable of some Vulkan commands and thus needs to be punted off and handled by the processor...

How to Check the Status of an Apache Server on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

AtlasVPN Linux Zero-Day Disconnects Users, Reveals IP Addresses  Dark Reading

Why I use multiple operating systems to get my work done  ZDNet

The Ceph changes were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window and with it comes one big shiny feature addition: support for making use of the FSCRYPT file-system encryption framework...