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Linux 6.5 Ready To Ship With Initial USB4 v2, More WiFi 7, AMD P-State EPP Default & More

Phoronix - Sat, 08/26/2023 - 18:25
Barring any last minute problems from coming up, the Linux 6.5 kernel is expected to be released as stable tomorrow, 27 August. Here's a reminder about all of the great changes and new features with this next kernel version, which is especially heavy on exciting additions for Intel and AMD Linux users...

GNOME's Sysprof Adds FlameGraphs To Better Visualize Output

Phoronix - Sat, 08/26/2023 - 18:08
In addition to GNOME's Sysprof integrating CPU scheduler data this week for GNOME 45, this system-wide profiling tool has also added support for FlameGraphs...

KDE Plasma 6 Now Enables Tap-To-Click By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 08/26/2023 - 17:50
Last week KDE Plasma 6 made the default change from single click to double click for opening files/folders while this week brings another notable default settings change for the desktop... Tap-to-click is finally enabled by default...

AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 23:30
AMD used the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Germany for announcing the Radeon RX 7700 XT and Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards as the newest consumer cards in the RDNA3 family.

Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 22:19
Oliver Smith at Canonical who serves as the Product Manager for Ubuntu Desktop published a post on "charting a course for the future" of the Ubuntu desktop...

Ubuntu Delays Transition To Snap'ed CUPS Print Server

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 21:50
Since 2021 among other Snap'ing efforts for converting formerly Ubuntu DEB packages to Canonical's Snap sandboxed app packaging format has been the CUPS print server. The plan was to replace the Debian-packaged CUPS with the Snap-based CUPS for Ubuntu 23.10 but now that is being pushed back to next year...

Further Cleaned-Up AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 08/25/2023 - 20:08
It looks like the further-tuned AMD Inception / SRSO (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) mitigation code will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window...

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