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All of the ARM SoC and platform driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel that include bringing up the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, enabling various low-cost gaming handheld console devices, finally upstreaming Google Tensor G1 support, and other hardware additions...

Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs  Phoronix

Linux Fu: Name That Tune  Hackaday

Mirai-based NoaBot Botnet Targeting Linux Systems with Cryptominer  HackRead

AYA Neo Next Lite is a cheap(er) handheld gaming PC that ships with Linux (Updated)  Liliputing

PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops  9to5Linux

As part of the Red Hat led effort for making XWayland's rootful mode more useful and the ability to run X11 desktop sessions within XWayland as part of RHEL 10 dropping the X.Org Server support besides XWayland, a new "-output" option was added to XWayland for better control over placement of rootful fullscreen windows...

Intel Compute Runtime 23.39.27427.23 has been released today as the newest version of this open-source GPU compute stack for Windows and Linux systems for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. The Compute Runtime works from aging Broadwell and Skylake/Gen9 graphics up through the latest DG2 discrete graphics and the recently launched Meteor Lake processors with their much improved integrated graphics...

Intel CR 23.39.27427.23 Delivers Latest Open-Source GPU Compute Capabilities  Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel display/graphics driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel. As expected and to much excitement, the experimental new Xe kernel graphics driver is included for introduction in Linux 6.8 as well as the Imagination PowerVR driver for select Rogue GPUs. Plus there's new AMDGPU driver additions and other improvements with this pull, including the initial AMD color management code...

Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver  Phoronix

Mirai-Based NoaBot Launches a DDoS Attack on Linux Devices  GBHackers

Linux-Based Handheld PCs  Trend Hunter

Mesa 24.0 feature development has concluded for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers most notably for AMD Radeon and Intel graphics on Linux but also an increasing number of smaller drivers, like for Apple Silicon, the NVK / Nouveau drivers, Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan, and more...

Linux Foundation Welcomes OpenTofu, the Terraform™ Fork  Read IT Quik

Linux 6.8 is continuing the work toward allowing the sysctl sentinel to be removed, the final empty element on sysctl arrays. This ongoing effort will in turn allow for saving an extra 64 bytes on each sysctl array and will enhance the build time size of the kernel...

Linux 6.8 Continues Work For Clearing The sysctl Sentinel Bloat  Phoronix

With it being nearly one year since the release of Qt 6.5 LTS and Qt 6.6 having debuted in October, The Qt Company has not put Qt 6.5 LTS into its commercial-only phase with today's Qt 6.5.4 release...

Eric Engestrom has released Mesa 23.3.3 as the latest stable update to this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers plus being the first update of the new year...

How to check your CPU usage in Linux  Tom's Guide