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Microsoft Takes a Page From Linux, Will Add Rust to Windows Kernel  WebProNews

While prominent gaming peripheral manufacturer Razer still is not officially supporting Linux with their vast array of products, thanks to the community-driven OpenRazer project there is unofficial open-source support and can work quite well when paired with the likes of Polychromatic as a nice user interface. Out today is OpenRazer 3.6 in enabling the latest Razer products on Linux...

OpenRazer 3.6 Brings Support For New Razer Peripherals On Linux  Phoronix

5 Best Linux Laptops (2023): Repairable, Budget, Powerful  WIRED

Linux 6.4 Continues Bringing Up More Compute Express Link Feature Code  Phoronix

With the work led by Intel engineers on bringing up the Compute Express Link specification features into the open-source kernel, Linux 6.4 is another cycle seeing a lot of enablement work on the CXL front...

The HID subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.4 kernel that is now half-way through its merge window...

HID Updates Bring Apple Quirks, Nintendo Controller Rumble ...  Phoronix

Debian 11.7 “Bullseye” Released with 102 Security Updates and 92 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

"Meet the Techs of Tomorrow Where They Are Today": A ...  It's FOSS News

Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from ...  Slashdot

It's not just Microsoft's Windows 11, Linux is also getting more Rust-y  Neowin

With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase the memory safety for the widely relied upon software...

How to install Beyond compare on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS  H2S Media

How to Play Doom in Your Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

On Friday the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted a pull request of new Rust feature code for the Linux 6.4 kernel...

More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4  Phoronix

The Striking Soulslikes bundle has some punishment ready for you  GamingOnLinux

Since 2020 Intel engineers have been working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) as a feature similar to Arm's Top Byte Ignore (TBI) for letting user-space store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. This can be of use to virtual machines, profiling / sanitizers / tagging, and other applications. The Intel LAM kernel support has finally been merged with Linux 6.4...

Intel Linear Address Masking "LAM" Merged Into Linux 6.4  Phoronix