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Proton Experimental fixes up EA App, Grounded, The Witcher 3  GamingOnLinux

AlmaLinux Responds to Red Hat Going Closed-Source  WebProNews

Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL implementation Rusticl for Gallium3D drivers has now added experimental FP16 to its feature set...

EOL For Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7 In 1 Year and a Week  Slashdot

New iVentoy allows installation of Windows, WinPE, Linux, and more, via network  Neowin

With Linux 6.4 expected for release today the Linux 6.5 merge window will then open. From my close monitoring of the many "-next" Git development branches along with some early pull requests already submitted, here is a look at some of the features that will likely be found in Linux 6.5 barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds himself...

Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow ...  Phoronix

Writing Server Software With Go. I’ve written a variety of different ...  Medium

Earlier this month I ran some fresh benchmarks of Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan against RadeonSI. While Zink in general is already quite speedy and in good shape for most workloads, those tests uncovered some troubled spots and Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve has been diving into some of those issues with fixes. Another merge request is pending to deal with inefficiencies in the Mesa Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code...

Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.11, Wine-Staging 8.11 is out this Sunday morning with 502 patches atop the upstream Wine code...

While the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler has been building the AArch64 and x86_64 mainline Linux kernel builds for quite some time, for those interested in China's LoongArch CPU architecture it's the latest target seeing work to enable compiling the Linux kernel under Clang...

New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds  Phoronix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sources Will Now Be Available To Paying ...  Slashdot

Exploring The Anatomy Of A Linux Kernel Exploit  Hackaday

A Zero-Day Exploit In The Linux Kernel  Hackaday

Added to the Linux kernel back in 2020 was a community-written Corsair power supply driver for exposing various sensor data that their higher-end PSUs make available via a USB interface. This reverse-engineered "corsair-psu" driver has continued to be improved upon and adding support for newer Corsair PSUs. A new patch out this weekend extends the corsair-psu driver for handling newer 2022~2023 model power supplies...

Linux's Corsair PSU Driver Being Updated For Newer Power Supplies  Phoronix

possible to force flash scap firmware files? flashrom in linux ...  MacRumors

With it having been another smooth week so far in the upstream kernel world, it's looking like Linus Torvalds is likely to promote Linux 6.4 tomorrow rather than going ahead with an extra release candidate. As such, here's a reminder about what makes Linux 6.4 a great summer-time kernel upgrade...

Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early ...  Phoronix