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There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or "decrapification" as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support. It's unlikely the x86 32-bit support will be removed right now, which is "just museum pieces", but as an alternative would be making it SMP-only to at least remove the uni-processor code paths...

New Linux Kernel Code Works On APIC "Decrapification", Suggests Dropping x86 32-bit  Phoronix

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market  The Register

Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source ...  Phoronix

While Intel Arc Graphics continue enjoying performance optimizations with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, the major limitation facing Arc Graphics on Linux right now for gamers is the lack of sparse residency support that is needed for running many newer games on Linux with Intel graphics -- particularly newer Windows D3D12 titles running on Linux via Valve's Steam Play. It's been a long known limitation and will hopefully be addressed once the Intel Xe kernel driver is introduced, but at least as an interim solution there is now "fake" sparse support being implemented...

A set of 35 patches were posted on Sunday for introducing ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) support to the Linux kernel. This is akin to x86 Shadow Stack support for hardware-protected stacks of return addresses to help fend off ROP attacks...

Arm Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Patches Debut For The Linux ...  Phoronix

CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 is now shipping as Microsoft's newest in-house Linux distribution release...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230630 Ships Security Fixes, Adds In ...  Phoronix

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MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Dynamics, Forecast ...  Chatfield News-Record

Linux Operating System Market 2031 Business Insights with Key ...  Chatfield News-Record

GNU Shepherd is the Guile-written service manager for handling daemons that is most notably used by the GNU Guix project as an alternative to the likes of SysV and systemd. With today's GNU Shepherd 0.10.2 some long-standing issues have finally been resolved...

How to Set Up a Rust Development Environment on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Exoprimal from Capcom tested on Steam Deck and desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Merged to Mesa 23.2-devel recently was an Intel Arc Graphics driver change to improve performance. This ended up being a rather significant improvement to performance and in today's article is a look at the performance impact of the recent Mesa work by Intel engineers to better the Arc Graphics family.

Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Nice ~10% Speedup With Recent Open-Source Linux Driver Review  Phoronix

Merged for Linux 6.5 was initial MIDI 2.0 support for the necessary USB audio and raw MIDI drivers to support this major MIDI update. Being worked on now for merging into a future kernel release is the USB gadget driver support around MIDI 2.0...

More MIDI 2.0 Code Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Is Wayland Becoming the Favored Way to Get a GUI on Linux?  Slashdot