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Manjaro Linux 22.0 Releases Featuring Xfce 4.18 and Linux Kernel ...  It's FOSS News

While the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window just wrapped up, AMD's P-State EPP driver was deemed not ready for making it this cycle. However, with AMD having now iterated it to a ninth revision, it's looking like this P-State "Energy Performance Preference" functionality over the existing P-State driver support will be ready for merging come Linux 6.3...

AMD Posts P-State EPP v9 Driver That Aims To Be Ready For Linux ...  Phoronix

Can you play Valorant on Steam Deck?  Sportskeeda

Can you play Valorant on Steam Deck?  Sportskeeda

The xf86-video-modesetting work covered a month ago over "TearFree" page flipping support has been merged to the X.Org Server for whenever the next release ends up happening...

It's been one year and a few days since the introduction of Mold 1.0 as a high performance linker alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD while debuting today is Mold 1.8 as the newest feature release...

Prior to the holiday weekend Qualcomm engineers posted a set of "request for comments" Linux kernel patches to implement USB audio offloading support for Qualcomm SoCs with a dedicated audio DSP...

Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Patches Posted For The Mainline ...  Phoronix

10 resources for Python programmers Moshe Zadka Mon, 12/26/2022 - 03:00

One of my favorite things about Python is that it's an actual language that's also useful as a teaching language. As in past years, Opensource.com had great articles demonstrating this in 2022.

More Python resources What is an IDE? Cheat sheet: Python 3.7 for beginners Top Python GUI frameworks Download: 7 essential PyPI libraries Red Hat Developers Latest Python articles

• Don Watkins wrote about how he teaches kids Python on the Raspberry Pi. Stephan Avenwedde looked at different Python interpreters, while Mark Meyer explained how to turn your Python script into a command-line application.
   
• Writing web robots in Python has been popular for two decades. In 2022, articles about httpx and using Python requests with BeautifulSoup highlighted two new ways of collecting and analyzing data from websites.
   
• There has never been a more exciting time in packaging Python. Sumantro Mukherjee demonstrated how to package a new Python module in 4 steps, and I covered modern packaging tools.
   
• From learning to production, from code to package, code evolves. One of the best ways to make sure it evolves well is to use automated checkers like Thoth or PyLint.

Use Python

Python is a fun language, but it's also a powerful language. You can enjoy Python as a beginner and as a pro, so break out your favorite text editor and start exploring this dynamic and multifaceted language. And have a Pythonic 2023!

There's something for everyone in the world of Python this year.

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.2 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel Security Bug Allows Remote Code Execution for ...  Slashdot

Critical Linux Kernel flaw affects SMB servers with ksmbd enabled  Security Affairs

Critical Linux Kernel flaw affects SMB servers with ksmbd enabled  Security Affairs

Following the two week long Linux 6.2 merge window colliding with Christmas day, Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.2-rc1 as capping off the merge window and moving on to the testing and bug fixing phase of this release cycle...

Linux 6.2-rc1 Brings Stable Intel Arc Graphics, Call Depth Tracking & Many More Features  Phoronix

How to Find Your MAC Address on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Reducing Docker Image Sizes With Alpine Linux Images  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD Focuses On Various Driver Improvements For RDNA 3 GPUs Running In Linux  Wccftech