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How to Generate Custom Wordlists on Kali Linux With crunch  MUO - MakeUseOf

For those that happen to have QLogic 10Gb PCIe Ethernet adapters, the mainline Linux kernel is planning to remove this driver from the kernel source tree unless any active users step-up...

QLogic 10Gb "QLGE" Ethernet Driver Set To Be Removed From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Welcome to the new and much the same GamingOnLinux ...  GamingOnLinux

Linux sound patches queued for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.7 cycle are preparing for the upcoming introduction of the new "Xe" DRM kernel graphics driver...

Linux 6.7 Sound Code Prepares For Intel's Xe DRM Driver  Phoronix

In addition to working on the likes of the Milk-V Duo and high-end Pioneer board, Milk-V has now announced the "Oasis" as a forthcoming mini-ITX RISC-V board that will feature 16 cores and up to 64GB of LPDDR5 system memory...

Milk-V Oasis Sounds Like An Interesting RISC-V Board With 16 ...  Phoronix

AMD driver engineer Saroj Kumar has contributed Perfetto integration for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as the latest means of allowing tracing/profiling for this open-source OpenGL driver...

RadeonSI Driver Integrates Perfetto Support  Phoronix

Zlib-ng 2.1.4 was released this week as the newest version of this Zlib data compression library intended for "next generation" uses. Zlib-ng continues having a lower barrier for new contributions and optimizations than the upstream Zlib repository itself to allow for it to more rapidly evolve on today's systems...

Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM ...  Phoronix

Linux Foundation's 'Super-Long-Term Stable Kernel Program ...  Slashdot

How To Install LM Studio on Linux? | by Rens Wunnink | Oct, 2023  Medium

Libreboot 20231021 Brings Some Additional Laptops, Desktops ...  Phoronix

Libreboot 20231021 was published for testing today as the newest Coreboot downstream focused on providing only fully free software support for system firmware with more stringent open-source requirements than Coreboot itself...

Unless Open Source Evolves, HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free ...  Slashdot

How to Show Mac Games Only on Steam  OSXDaily

An Intel engineer on Friday posted a set of Linux kernel patches that are working to refine the Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) mitigation handling for the Linux kernel to better protect some kernel data and also some very subtle performance benefits...

Intel Optimizing Its MDS Mitigation Handling To Avoid Possible Kernel Data Leaking  Phoronix