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Microsoft Adds AMD SEV-SNP & Intel TDX Guest Support To Hyper ...  Phoronix

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 535.43.09 and stable 535.104.05 drivers out now  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux KDE Spin Is Switching to the Calamares Graphical Installer  9to5Linux

Here's how Starfield runs on Steam Deck and desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

It's been nearly four months since the release of DXVK 2.2 for this Direct3D 9/10/11 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux. Out today is DXVK 2.3 as the latest major step forward for the project...

JetBrains promises Wayland support for its IntelliJ IDEs on Linux ...  DevClass

Microsoft Windows 11 users should switch to Ubuntu-based Linux ...  BetaNews

The ACPI and power management updates were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel...

AMD P-State Fixes & Other Power Management Changes For Linux ...  Phoronix

Released at the end of August was GNU Coreutils 9.4 while out this weekend is uutils 0.0.21 as the open-source, Rust-written re-implementation of the Coreutils utilities...

A set of printk clean-ups were sent in today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. These clean-ups are important as they are a stepping stone towards the threaded / atomic console printing and in turn that is the last major blocker before the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can finally be upstreamed in the kernel...

Printk Cleanups Ready For Linux 6.6 - Stepping Towards Threaded ...  Phoronix

Fwupd 1.9.5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for enabling system and peripheral firmware updating under Linux that ties into the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). With the Fwupd 1.9.5 some additional devices are now supported plus there are some other core improvements...

Fwupd 1.9.5 Released With Optional Passim Support, Firmware ...  Phoronix

Armbian 23.08 is out as the latest quarterly update to this Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for use on Arm single board computers and other devices...

Armbian 23.08 Released With Work-In-Progress ThinkPad X13s ...  Phoronix

As part of the "smp/core" changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.6 kernel, partial SMT enablement landed for processors that support more than two threads per physical core to allow greater run-time control over just how many threads to enable...

Partial SMT Enablement Support Lands For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Linux Lite 6.6 Arrives with Support for 22 New Languages, New AI Helper Tool  9to5Linux

Linux Users Beware! GNOME 45 is Bad News for Extensions  It's FOSS News