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Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions For 2022 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini  Phoronix

Further adding to the excitement of the upcoming Linux 6.4 merge window is the mainline kernel seeing the Device Tree (DT) additions for Apple's current M2 devices including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini systems. The upstream kernel still has more work to go around the M1/M2 support compared to the downstream state with Asahi Linux, but at least now with this DT support will provide some basic level of upstream kernel support for the Apple M2...

System76 Shows First Pics of Fully Customized Linux Laptop Prototype  Tom's Hardware

While the release of GCC 13.1 as the first stable GCC 13 compiler is due out in the next few weeks, ahead of that milestone dozens of Rust "gccrs" patches were merged today for furthering along that new language support...

Following the Intel Meteor Lake VPU driver being added to the new accelerator "accel" subsystem in Linux 6.3 along with converting over the Habana Labs AI driver, coming in Linux 6.4 is now the Qualcomm QAIC Cloud AI driver to this subsystem that lives within the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) umbrella...

Qualcomm QAIC Accelerator Driver Coming With Linux 6.4  Phoronix

PipeWire 0.3.68 is out today as a significant update for this alternative to JACK and PulseAudio as well as managing both audio and video streams on the Linux desktop...

PipeWire 0.3.68 Released With New RTP Session Module, Many ...  Phoronix

Intel today submitted their final batch of "drm-intel-gt-next" feature changes that they have planned for the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel cycle...

Intel Carries Out More Meteor Lake Graphics Enablement For Linux ...  Phoronix

AlmaLinux to Showcase its Community-Driven Linux OS at ...  StreetInsider.com

AlmaLinux to Showcase its Community-Driven Linux OS at ...  Benzinga

AlmaLinux to Showcase its Community-Driven Linux OS at FOSSASIA Summit  Yahoo Finance

AlmaLinux to Showcase its Community-Driven Linux OS at ...  Business Wire

How to Reboot Linux System (6 Methods)  Beebom

While Chrome 112 just shipped this week and Chrome 113 only in beta, there is already a big reason to look forward to that next Chrome web browser release: Google is finally ready to ship WebGPU support! WebGPU provides the next-generation high performance 3D graphics API for the web...

Huawei's Bolt project is a deep learning library focused on high performance and heterogeneous flexibility and supporting a variety of neural networks. Bolt claims to outperform other deep learning acceleration libraries while supporting models from TensorFlow, ONNX, Caffe, and more...

VVenC is an open-source project from the Fraunhofer Institute for providing H.266/VVC video encode/decode capabilities. Out today is VVenC 1.8 with the latest enhancements for speeding up CPU-based H.266 video coding...

Embedded Linux Market Research Report 2023-2031 Market ...  The SEM Weekly

Linux Software Market Research Report 2023-2031 Market Future ...  The SEM Weekly