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Linux 6.6 Unconditionally Enables x86 CPU Microcode Loading Support  Phoronix

Going along with AMD's work on AMD openSIL for open-sourcing the CPU silicon initialization code to ultimately replace AGESA in future hardware platforms, the initial EPYC "Genoa" code for Coreboot has been upstreamed along with the Onyx motherboard target...

The Bcachefs file-system code born out of the Linux kernel's block cache code was submitted for Linux 6.5 but ultimately rejected. Bcachefs is now trying again to land for the current Linux 6.6 merge window...

Bcachefs File-System Re-Submitted For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Linux's Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS ...  Slashdot

Nitrux 3.0.0 raises the Linux bar while outshining Microsoft Windows ...  BetaNews

Debian developers will be discontinuing their 32-bit MIPS little-endian "mipsel" CPU architecture port moving forward...

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey  GamingOnLinux

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey  GamingOnLinux

The EROFS read-only file-system and F2FS Flash Friendly File-System were among the FS updates to land this week for Linux 6.6 -- in addition to marking ReiserFS as obsolete...

EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6  Phoronix

GE-Proton 8-14 released, deprecated workarounds removed ...  GamingOnLinux

The state of optimus-manager explained by its developer  GamingOnLinux

AMD To Enhance “OverDrive” GPU Overclocking Features For Linux Users  Wccftech

Sriram Ramkrishna at Intel, who serves as the community manager and developer relations for oneAPI, held a virtual oneAPI meetup this week with Red Hat's David Airlie. Airlie should not need any introduction for longtime Phoronix readers given his longtime contributions to the Linux kernel graphics drivers, Mesa, and related open-source graphics work at Red Hat. Airlie shared some interesting remarks around the current Linux GPU compute stacks from the different vendors and associated challenges...

David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux ...  Phoronix

The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust  The Register

The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm...

Linux 6.6 Perf Events Prepare For Intel's Crestmont In Grand Ridge ...  Phoronix

There wasn't any big Vulkan spec update for SIGGRAPH this year but the frequent point releases continue rolling on for this high performance graphics and compute API...