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When Open Becomes Opaque: the Changing Face of Open-Source ...  Slashdot

Linux is cool now - but why?  Yahoo Life

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AMD Dynamic Boost Control Feature Set For Introduction In Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Back in April I pointed out some new AMD patches at the time for enabling a new "Dynamic Boost Control" feature that hasn't been widely talked about by AMD yet for allowing more frequency/power controls around Ryzen SoCs. But making this power/performance feature controversial is that it requires authentication with the AMD Platform Security Processor (PSP) for activation with user-space blobs for tapping this greater control of the hardware. This AMD Dynamic Boost Control feature now looks like it is ready for merging into Linux 6.6...

Similar to the Dell WMI system management driver and Lenovo's Think-LMI driver, the HP-BIOSCFG driver now poised for introduction in Linux 6.6 allows for managing and configuring BIOS settings on capable HP laptops/desktops from under Linux itself...

HP BIOS Management/Configuration Driver Coming For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Queued up ahead of the Linux 6.6 cycle later this summer is a new input driver for the Azoteq IQS7210A/7211A/E controllers...

Linux 6.6 To Add New Input Driver Used By Wearable Fitness Devices  Phoronix

Every Year is Someone's Year of Linux Desktop  It's FOSS News

For the past few months Intel has been working on a new cluster scheduling implementation for their hybrid CPUs. This rework was due to their earlier cluster scheduling code not working out so well for the likes of Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors while this new patch series can at least help some workloads in the ~1% range...

Cluster Scheduling For Intel Hybrid CPUs Looks Like It Will Be ...  Phoronix

How to Add a User to the Sudoers List in Linux  The Tech Edvocate

Looking for Something? How to grep Multiple Strings in Linux  The Tech Edvocate

Btrfs has long provided a built-in integrity checker tool into the file-system driver. However, slated for Linux 6.6 is deprecating of this integrity checker...

Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool  Phoronix

Get some at-home arcade game fun in this latest bundle  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc2 release tomorrow there was a set of x86/x86_64 kernel changes merged overnight to deal with some weaknesses in the kernel's Control Flow Integrity (kCFI) / FineIBT (Indirect Branch Tracking) code...

Linux kCFI/FineIBT Weaknesses Addressed By Rewriting Some ...  Phoronix

With all the news in recent weeks following Red Hat's decision to limit access to RHEL sources that in turn lead to changes for AlmaLinux, finding new ways to obtain sources at Rocky Linux, interesting statements from Oracle, and even SUSE forking RHEL. The public RHEL sources now will basically be the upstream CentOS Stream code for which future Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions are ultimately based. The CentOS Project issued a new statement on Friday...