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Linux 6.7 To Add POWER-Z Driver For Exposing USB Power ...  Phoronix

For those curious about the power consumption of USB-C devices, there are some nifty devices out there that have a LED display and can report the voltage, Amps, Wattage, and USB power delivery protocol version of connected devices. It's a neat display but with a new POWER-Z driver coming to the Linux kernel it's possible to propagate that information from the system itself with this new driver...

Linux's SLUB Allocator Preparing To Better Fend Off Cross-Cache ...  Phoronix

Following SLOB's removal and SLAB being deprecated and set for removal, the Linux kernel is all-in on the SLUB allocator. A new patch series posted on Friday is aiming to help prevent the possibility of cross-cache attacks with the SLUB memory allocator in the kernel...

GE-Proton 8-15 release fixes Mafia Definitive Edition  GamingOnLinux

Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches...

Wine-Staging 8.16 Fixes A 16 Year Old Bug For Games Crashing  Phoronix

The threaded / atomic console support for the Linux kernel is the last main blocker before the real-time "RT" patches can finally be mainlined...

NBCON Console Patches Updated For Eventually Unblocking Real ...  Phoronix

Linux Celebrates 32 Years with the Release of 6.6-rc2 Version  Linux Journal

Armbian September news & DietPi late August news  LinuxGizmos.com

The 7 Best PDF-to-Word Converters for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Mesa Drivers Tip Intel's Arc Battlemage GPU Draws Near  Hot Hardware

With the AMD performance uplift on the Linux 6.6 kernel due to the EEVDF scheduler code, the workqueue enhancements for chiplet-based processor designs, and other improvements, many Phoronix readers have speculated over AMD Linux gaming performance improvements with this in-development kernel...

AMD Linux Gaming Performance Largely Unchanged With Linux 6.6 Git  Phoronix

Grab some Bethesda Favourites from this Fanatical bundle  GamingOnLinux

LWJGL 3.3.3 Released With Updated Bindings, GraalVM Native ...  Phoronix

Version 3.3.3 of the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is now available for this Java library that makes it easy to utilize native APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to OpenCL compute and other OS APIs within Java's confines. LWJGL is used for Java games and can also be used with other Java software looking for rich API support particularly around GPU integration...

Just as anticipated, the Linux 6.5 kernel has landed in the Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic archive as the default kernel powering this next Ubuntu distribution release due out in October...