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Linux 6.4-rc3 Released Following A Rather Smooth Week  Phoronix

How to Run a Large Language Model on Linux (and Why You Should)  MUO - MakeUseOf

You Can Turn Your Old PS2 Into A Linux Computer: Here's How  SlashGear

A patch is pending via x86/urgent to workaround an issue with Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors that is leaving the kernel developers for the time being to disable Process Context Identifiers (PCID) with these Intel mobile/desktop processors...

Linux To Disable PCID For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake Due To ...  Phoronix

How to remove Software Center App on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04?  H2S Media

Arch Linux on Friday began its Git repository migration and as part of that discontinuing SVN access and some changes to how their package repositories are setup. Arch Linux's Git migration has now been successfully completed...

Arch Linux Completes Its Git Migration  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Promises Basic HDR Support  9to5Linux

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed a new set of patches for Mesa 23.2 that are further optimizing the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for lower overhead in some code paths...

RADV Driver Lands More Vulkan Overhead Reduction Optimizations  Phoronix

Being merged into LLVM's libc library recently are an optimized memory copy function "memcpy" implementation for the RISC-V architecture...

There is pending patches for adding support for the LEAKSHIELD device to the Aquacomputer Linux device driver. German PC component manufacturer Aquacomputer has been enjoying support for their various products on Linux and the latest seeing support in this open-source driver is the Aquacomputer Leakshield for reporting any water cooling leaks and other performance metrics around your cooling setup...

Linux Adding Leakshield Driver Support For Reporting Liquid ...  Phoronix

Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta is Now Available for Testing  OMG! Ubuntu!

Bodhi Linux 7.0 Beta is Now Available for Testing  OMG! Ubuntu!

As covered a few days ago on Phoronix, there's been early progress on HDR display support for the KDE desktop among other highlights this week...

How to Prevent Brute-Force Attacks on Linux Using Fail2ban  MUO - MakeUseOf

Get some quality deck-building in this game bundle  GamingOnLinux

Intel quietly released a new whitepaper and specification for their proposal on "X86-S" as a 64-bit only x86 architecture. If their plans workout, in the years ahead we could see a revised 64-bit only x86 architecture...