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Easily Manage Bluetooth Devices From the Linux Terminal With ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

SUSE Takes Swipe At Red Hat, Says 'We Are All Interdependent'  WebProNews

Firefox 115 ESR Is Here with Hardware Video Decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux  9to5Linux

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux ...  Phoronix

This week NVIDIA and their AIB partners began shipping the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card with pricing starting out at $299 USD. Like the recently-launched Radeon RX 7600, the RTX 4060 is geared mostly for 1080p gaming but how does it compare against the RX 7600 that is priced starting at $249? Here are some initial Linux gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 against the Radeon RX 7600.

Independent Distro KaOS 2023.06 Is Out with Linux 6.3, Latest KDE Software  9to5Linux

Purism found a way to make its Linux phone even more expensive: meet the $2,199 Liberty Phone  Liliputing

What to Expect From Ubuntu Core Desktop: A Snap-Only Version of ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

4 Ways Red Hat's Source Code Restrictions Affect Other Distros  MUO - MakeUseOf

An independent developer has posted an open-source Linux driver for review in order to handle the Apple Studio Display backlight control under Linux. The Apple Studio Display uses a Thunderbolt (DP) interface for display but lacks any hardware controls. Thus a USB interface is used by the monitor for controlling attributes like the display backlight brightness...

Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight  Phoronix

Lavapipe as the software-based Vulkan implementation within Mesa has now landed support for Vulkan descriptor extensions and in turn this CPU-based Vulkan implementation can begin running some Direct3D 12 games with VKD3D-Proton. Keep in mind, however, the performance is severely limited...

Currently most avionics real-time operating systems for airplanes are proprietary and very specialized for safety assurance reasons. Using Linux though and other open-source software would ease development, open more developers to being able to work on said avionics platforms, have much better documentation, and lower other barriers, but there are challenges currently involved...

The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes  Phoronix

Linux creator Linus Torvalds doesn't write as much actual kernel code these days as he used to. These days he's often busy overseeing the upstream kernel development community with reviewing code, managing releases, and chiming in on mailing list discussions. Once in a while though he gets down and dirty with some low-level kernel hacking just as he's done now for Linux 6.5 with improving the user-mode stack expansion code...

Linus Torvalds Gets Coding To Improve Linux's User-Mode Stack ...  Phoronix

The Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement in the Linux kernel remains ongoing and with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel are yet more features now being enabled for this exciting industry standard...

Linux 6.5 Adds CXL Device Sanitization, Secure Erase, CXL 3.0 ...  Phoronix

KDE developers finished out June on a high note with many features and new fixes landing for Plasma 6.0 development as well as refinements for later Plasma 5.27 point releases...

How to Copy Files in Linux (2 Ways)  Beebom