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As part of the VFS changes submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window, a new "BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED" Kconfig option is added that allows controlling whether writes are allowed to mounted block devices...

AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux ...  Tom's Hardware

Ahead of the Linux 6.7 stable kernel release expected on Sunday, some early pull requests have already begun trickling in for the Linux 6.8 merge window to follow. The SLAB updates were sent to Linus Torvalds on Friday in preparing for this next kernel cycle...

Linux 6.8 To Drop SLAB While Delivering A SLUB Optimization: 34% Micro-Benchmark Win  Phoronix

The upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle will introduce support for Intel's Linear Address Masking (LAM) for use within KVM virtualized guests...

Intel LAM Coming To KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.8  Phoronix

The Intel frame-buffer driver "IntelFB" has been solicited for removal from the mainline Linux kernel. This FBDEV driver is for supporting very old Intel i8xx/i9xx integrated graphics hardware...

Intel Framebuffer Driver Set To Be Retired For Old i8xx/i9xx Graphics  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.7 kernel set to be released on Sunday, Red Hat's David Airlie has sent in some last minute fixes for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" DRM kernel driver. These fixes are for addressing fallout from the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware support merged for the v6.7 cycle...

Nouveau Receives Last Minute GSP Fixes For Linux 6.7  Phoronix

Linux hits four per cent of the desktop market  Fudzilla

3 New Malicious PyPI Packages Deploy CoinMiner Linux  GBHackers

3 New Malicious PyPI Packages Found Installing CoinMiner on Linux Devices  GBHackers

How to use Jupyter Notebook on Windows, Linux, and macOS  XDA Developers

AI Capabilities Revolutionize Deepin Linux Distribution  BNN Breaking

Deepin Linux AI features challenge Windows Copilot with programming assistant and AI photo editing  Notebookcheck.net

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The Friendly Interactive Shell which is commonly called and abbreviated as FISH is a shell for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It is released under

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New Linux Patch Officially Confirms AMD Family 26 As Being Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

AMD's open-source Linux software engineers continue preparing the Linux kernel for supporting next-generation Zen 5 processors...

How to install ADB on Windows, macOS, and Linux  XDA Developers