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Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow ...  Phoronix

Writing Server Software With Go. I’ve written a variety of different ...  Medium

Earlier this month I ran some fresh benchmarks of Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan against RadeonSI. While Zink in general is already quite speedy and in good shape for most workloads, those tests uncovered some troubled spots and Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve has been diving into some of those issues with fixes. Another merge request is pending to deal with inefficiencies in the Mesa Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code...

Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.11, Wine-Staging 8.11 is out this Sunday morning with 502 patches atop the upstream Wine code...

While the upstream LLVM/Clang compiler has been building the AArch64 and x86_64 mainline Linux kernel builds for quite some time, for those interested in China's LoongArch CPU architecture it's the latest target seeing work to enable compiling the Linux kernel under Clang...

New Patches Allow LoongArch ClangBuiltLinux Builds  Phoronix

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sources Will Now Be Available To Paying ...  Slashdot

Exploring The Anatomy Of A Linux Kernel Exploit  Hackaday

A Zero-Day Exploit In The Linux Kernel  Hackaday

Added to the Linux kernel back in 2020 was a community-written Corsair power supply driver for exposing various sensor data that their higher-end PSUs make available via a USB interface. This reverse-engineered "corsair-psu" driver has continued to be improved upon and adding support for newer Corsair PSUs. A new patch out this weekend extends the corsair-psu driver for handling newer 2022~2023 model power supplies...

Linux's Corsair PSU Driver Being Updated For Newer Power Supplies  Phoronix

possible to force flash scap firmware files? flashrom in linux ...  MacRumors

With it having been another smooth week so far in the upstream kernel world, it's looking like Linus Torvalds is likely to promote Linux 6.4 tomorrow rather than going ahead with an extra release candidate. As such, here's a reminder about what makes Linux 6.4 a great summer-time kernel upgrade...

Linux 6.4 Bringing Great Improvements From AMD G.A.M. To Early ...  Phoronix

Why I Hopped from Manjaro Linux to EndeavourOS  How-To Geek

New Intel Arc Driver Delivers 11% Gaming Boost in Linux  Tom's Hardware

With the latest Mesa 23.2 code as of Friday there is now a rather significant performance optimization for Intel's graphics driver stack that really helps out Intel Arc Graphics DG2/Alchemist along with upcoming Meteor Lake graphics. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, for example, was found to be 11% faster now with this single driver change and other Vulkan apps/games benefiting as well...

Intel Arc Graphics Driver Change Leads To A Big Speed-Up Under Linux  Phoronix

How and why I use Linux on my Chromebook  About Chromebooks

The KDE Plasma 6 desktop is becoming more "livable" and each week new features continue to be implemented. This week was another lively phase of development toward Plasma 6.0...