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With the EXT4 file-system updates for Linux 6.6 there is mostly some code clean-ups and other bug fixing. But one change in particular stands out for its performance impact...

EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement For Appending To ...  Phoronix

North Korean Malware Targets Windows, MacOS and Linux - iHLS  i-HLS - Israel Homeland Security

Stadia Controller Rumbles & New Gaming Peripherals Supported ...  Phoronix

There are new and improved gaming controller and peripheral support to find with the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel...

8 Unbelievable Single Board Computer Linux for 2023  CitizenSide

Among the many changes to land during this first week of the Linux 6.6 cycle were the x86 CPU microcode loader updates that now unconditionally makes that support part of the x86/x86_64 kernel builds...

Linux 6.6 Unconditionally Enables x86 CPU Microcode Loading Support  Phoronix

Going along with AMD's work on AMD openSIL for open-sourcing the CPU silicon initialization code to ultimately replace AGESA in future hardware platforms, the initial EPYC "Genoa" code for Coreboot has been upstreamed along with the Onyx motherboard target...

The Bcachefs file-system code born out of the Linux kernel's block cache code was submitted for Linux 6.5 but ultimately rejected. Bcachefs is now trying again to land for the current Linux 6.6 merge window...

Bcachefs File-System Re-Submitted For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Linux's Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS ...  Slashdot

Nitrux 3.0.0 raises the Linux bar while outshining Microsoft Windows ...  BetaNews

Debian developers will be discontinuing their 32-bit MIPS little-endian "mipsel" CPU architecture port moving forward...

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey  GamingOnLinux

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey  GamingOnLinux

The EROFS read-only file-system and F2FS Flash Friendly File-System were among the FS updates to land this week for Linux 6.6 -- in addition to marking ReiserFS as obsolete...

EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6  Phoronix

GE-Proton 8-14 released, deprecated workarounds removed ...  GamingOnLinux

The state of optimus-manager explained by its developer  GamingOnLinux