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Earlier this month the AMD Inception vulnerability was disclosed and quickly mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel and back-ported to the stable kernels. In the rush to get the code merged and the mitigation being under embargo until the disclosure date, some bugs and clean-ups with the mitigation code were discovered. That revised code was now submitted today for merging ahead of the Linux 6.5-rc7 kernel release this weekend...

AMD Inception "SRSO" Mitigation Cleanup & Fixes Head To Linux ...  Phoronix

Nate Graham is out with his weekly KDE development summary to highlight all of the interesting changes to this open-source desktop environment with Plasma 6 development continuing at full-speed ahead...

StarLite Mk V 2-in-1 Linux hybrid laptop features Processor N200 processor  CNX Software

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It's been nearly one month since Wine 8.13 was released while today marked the debut of the Wine 8.14 development milestone...

The 5 Best Linux Tools for Directory Bursting  MUO - MakeUseOf

Get a bunch of building and management sims in this fresh Humble ...  GamingOnLinux

For those that happen to have a Google Stadia gaming controller from the days of Google's cloud gaming service, the Linux 6.6 kernel is adding a new driver to enable force feedback (rumble) support with these controllers...

Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia ...  Phoronix

How to Play Games on Your Chromebook  Business Insider

Linux developer SUSE, which is involved in Red Hat fight, moves to go private  WRAL TechWire

No sound in War Thunder on Linux? Here's a potential solution  GamingOnLinux

SUSE goes private again  TechCrunch

Tribulations on the road to running UGS under Mint Linux  Electronics Weekly

StarLite Mk V is a Linux tablet with Intel N200, 16GB RAM and a keyboard cover  Liliputing

AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Windows 11 vs. Linux CPU Performance  Phoronix

Over the past month I've been delivering a number of Linux laptop tests with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U for that Zen 4 "Phoenix" SoC within an Acer Swift Edge 16. One of the requests that has come up with my ongoing testing has been how well the default Microsoft Windows 11 installation compares to loading up Linux on this 8-core AMD Zen 4 laptop. Well, in this article is a look at the Linux performance compared to Windows 11, including when making use of the Linux 6.5 development kernel where AMD P-State is now the default and also for seeing what workloads are impacted by the recent AMD Inception vulnerability.

StarLite is a 12.5" tablet for Linux lovers  Boing Boing

Linux 6.4 or newer paired with the latest cryptsetup development code has landed support for the OPAL specification for self-encrypting drives...