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The Linux Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and include introducing Octal DTR "8D-8D-8D" support in SPI NAND for better performance...

For those that may be considering the new ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UM3406GA) laptop that has been refreshed for the new AMD Ryzen AI 400 series, Cirrus Logic has now upstreamed the necessary firmware for the cs35l41 audio amplifier for working speaker support...

Firmware Upstreamed For Linux Speaker Support On The ASUS Zenbook 14 UM3406GA  Phoronix

REMnux v8 Linux Toolkit Released With AI-Powered Malware Analysis Capabilities  gbhackers.com

$150 Steam Machine: Mining surplus becomes a Linux console with 60 FPS  igor´sLAB

Mesa 26.0: RADV catapults Radeon ray tracing forward on Linux  igor´sLAB

Linux 7.0 may receive a self-repairing feature that automatically fixes your XFS filesystem  XDA

Five Linux Distros Emerge As Ready To Use Picks  findarticles.com

KDE's Plasma 6.6 desktop release is due out next week (17 February) and there's been some last minute fixes to land. Additionally, KDE Plasma developers continue to be quite active in already landing feature work for Plasma 6.7...

One of the latest exciting developments for the open-source Godot game engine is beginning to lay out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Godot 4.7 Making Progress On Vulkan Ray-Tracing  Phoronix

My 5 favorite Linux distros that are ready to use out of the box (no setup required)  ZDNET

The GNOME 50 beta release is now available ahead of the official GNOME 50 desktop due out in March...

Linux Mint Signals Slower Release Cadence  findarticles.com

AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about  XDA

GNOME 50 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing with More New Features  9to5Linux

Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it  ZDNET

One of the latest NVIDIA open-source contributions this week wasn't for the in-development Nova kernel driver but for enhancing the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The patch posted is for bringing up the NVIDIA GA100 GPU under Nouveau using the GPU System Processor (GSP)...

XFS Could Gain a Self-Healing Feature in Linux Kernel 7.0  Linuxiac

With the Serial Peripheral Interface "SPI" subsystem updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel comes support for multi-lane SPI...