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Last week AMD sent out initial patches for enabling the "GFX 11.5" graphics IP under Linux for this presumed RDNA3 refresh that is likely for their next-gen Ryzen 8000 series APUs. Today AMD open-source Linux driver engineers sent out DCN 3.5 patches as an updated version of their Display Core Next IP...

Linux Fu: The Old School Terminal  Hackaday

Fedora Workstation has long maintained the QGnomePlatform and Adwaita-qt projects for applying a GNOME/GTK-like interface and styling to Qt applications in order to enhance the experience. However, to reduce the maintenance burden and the ongoing technical debt, Fedora Workstation 39 is planning to eliminate the custom Qt theming and just rely on Qt upstream...

Kali Linux 2023.3 released with 9 new tools, internal changes  BleepingComputer

Kali Linux 2023.3 released with 9 new tools, internal changes  BleepingComputer

Mir 2.15 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu-focused Wayland compositor developed by Canonical that makes it easy for building out Wayland-based shells...

Apple Silicon Macs Running Linux Receive Major Gaming Update  MacRumors

Wind River Linux is selected by ZEEKR for future EEA development  Automotive World

Wi-Fi 7 Isn’t Supported By Windows 10, Only Works With Windows 11, Linux & ChromeOS  Wccftech

Wi-Fi 7 Isn't Supported By Windows 10, Only Works With Windows ...  Wccftech

Wind River Linux is Selected by ZEEKR for Future EEA Development  StreetInsider

From Conti to Akira | Decoding the Latest Linux & ESXi ...  SentinelOne

Wind River Linux is Selected by ZEEKR for Future EEA Development  Business Wire

Earlier this month when the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was disclosed the initial mitigation was merged to Linux kernel right away for what there is referred to as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Within a day of that code being published there were already efforts to clean it up and merged last week for Linux 6.5-rc7 was that AMD Inception code cleaning. This week a new set of 22 patches were published for further improving the AMD Inception/SRSO mitigation code...

Linux for Apple silicon Macs hits a major gaming milestone  iMore

Bazzite is a new Fedora-based Linux for Steam Deck and gaming PCs  GamingOnLinux

Bazzite is a new Fedora-based Linux distro for Steam Deck and gaming PCs  GamingOnLinux

Googler Rob Clark on Sunday sent out the set of MSM DRM patches prepped for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window. The MSM DRM driver is the kernel component for open-source Qualcomm Adreno graphics that goes along with the Freedreno Gallium3D and TURNIP Vulkan drivers in Mesa for having a nice Qualcomm Linux graphics stack...

Linux 6.6 MSM DRM Driver Preps For New Hardware, Overhead ...  Phoronix

The VK_NV_device_generated_commands_compute extension introduced in Vulkan 1.3.258 is now wired up for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver and should further benefit VKD3D-Proton for Steam Play gaming...