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Linux 6.6 brought an initial Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" driver. The Intel IVSC drivers have long been out-of-tree for use with Alder Lake laptops and newer. Linux 6.7 brought the La Jolla Cove Adadpter driver code as part of the IVSC controller. With Linux 6.8 there's yet more work landing on the IVSC front...

Intel Visual Sensing Controller Enablement Work Continues For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Calamares 3.3 Released as the Next Generation Graphical Installer for Linux  9to5Linux

Cling 1.0 was released this week for this open-source interactive C++ interpreter that builds atop LLVM/Clang. Cling is implemented as an extension to LLVM/Clang to serve as an interpeter leveraging the read-eval-print loop (REPL) concept and relies on just-in-time (JIT) compilation...

The feature work continues pouring in for Mesa 24.0 with new OpenGL and Vulkan driver features continuing to be enabled...

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 36: Entertainment for X Windows  GamingOnLinux

Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release  The Register

Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability Exploited by Kinsing to Attack Linux Servers  CybersecurityNews

How To Install and Use the Cockpit Linux Management Console  ITPro Today

Of the many new features in Linux 6.7, one of the items exciting Phoronix readers the most is the merging of the long-in-development Bcachefs file-system...

Linux gets a Blue Screen of Death - NotebookCheck.net News  Notebookcheck.net

KDE Gear 23.08.4 Released as the Last Update in the Series  9to5Linux

How to change DNS servers on a GNOME-based Linux distribution (and why you should)  ZDNet

How to change DNS servers on a GNOME-based Linux distribution (and why you should)  ZDNet

2024 and the Linux Desktop: Cosmic, KDE Plasma 6, and Linux Mint News  WebProNews

AWS CloudShell has migrated to Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023)  AWS Blog

DUSK HD + SDK & Steam Workshop out now - needs Proton on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon  Phoronix

While it's been three years now since Ampere Altra Q80 was first introduced and two years since first testing the 128-core Ampere Altra Max, this ARM server platform has aged rather well with more robust hardware platforms coming to market with better firmware, the AArch64 Linux/open-source software ecosystem as a whole improving a lot during this time and more open-source projects receiving ARM optimizations, and other improvements made. While we're eagerly awaiting to see AmpereOne hardware, here is a look at how Ampere Altra Max M128-30 is standing up against current AMD EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo server CPUs along with Intel Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processors in raw performance and power efficiency.

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in EOL Ubuntu Systems  Security Boulevard