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The Solus 4.5 Linux distribution is out today as a big update to this original distro that is known for its Budgie desktop environment and other innovations over the years. Solus 4.5 brings some pretty big changes this time around and a nice step forward over Solus 4.4 from a half-year ago...

Following various leaks / rumors / teases in recent days, MSI today formally unveiled the Claw A1M as their first handheld gaming device and the first handheld gaming console in recent time to use an Intel SoC...

Following last month's Meteor Lake announcement, Intel is using CES 2024 this week in Las Vegas for announcing their complete line-up of new Intel Core mobile CPUs as well as completing the line-up of Core 14th Gen desktop processors at 35 and 65 Watt TDPs.

Linux 6.7: Hello Intel IFS and Meteor Lake, goodbye Itanium  SDxCentral

Linux 6.8 Landing A Tantalizing Optimization For Common $PATH-Based Searches  Phoronix

For the execve() system call to execute a program by pathname, the Linux 6.8 kernel is set to land a new optimization to "dramatically" speed-up PATH searches...

5 best Linux distros you must try in 2024  Sportskeeda

Nobara simplifies gaming and streaming on Linux for free - with one caveat  ZDNet

Nobara simplifies gaming and streaming on Linux for free - with one caveat  ZDNet

1. A new Linux kernel has been released and it's one of the largest ever  ZDNet
2. GNU Linux-libre 6.7 Cleans Up Graphics Driver Blobs, Addresses New Drivers  Phoronix
3. Linux kernel 6.7 is out now and it's one of the largest releases ever  GamingOnLinux

A new Linux kernel has been released and it's one of the largest ever  ZDNet

The Intel engineers enabling next-generation Arrow Lake processors for Linux have largely been just adding new device IDs and other mostly minor changes over current Meteor Lake processors. It was that way too for Arrow Lake's integrated graphics with largely re-using existing Meteor Lake graphics support, but now it's come to light that select Arrow Lake SKUs will feature updated graphics IP...

The x86 CPU pull request is ready for the Linux 6.8 kernel and besides adding new AMD Zen feature flags easily isolating different CPU generations, there is also an AMD CPU optimization to avoid an unnecessary MFENCE+LFENCE barrier...

Linux 6.8 Picks Up AMD CPU Optimization To Avoid Unnecessarily Serializing MSR Accesses  Phoronix

How To Get A Mac Keyboard Layout In Windows & Linux  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

AMD used CES 2024 to announce their new Ryzen 8000G series desktop processors and even introducing some new Ryzen 5000 series SKUs. Here are the key details from today's AMD Ryzen announcements while awaiting hardware for Linux testing.

In addition to announcing the Ryzen 8000G series and new Ryzen 5000 series processors, AMD kicked off CES 2024 in Las Vegas by announcing the Radeon RX 7600 XT as their newest RDNA3 discrete graphics card for gamers.

Heroic Games Launcher Version 2.12.0: A New Era of Enhanced Gaming on Linux and Steam Deck  BNN Breaking

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments  GamingOnLinux

Ingo Molnar sent in all of the scheduler changes this morning for the now-open Linux 6.8 merge window...