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Fedora Workstation devs face community backlash over plans to ...  ITPro

As was anticipated, UEFI Unaccepted Memory support was successfully merged for Linux 6.5 to support this standard that's important with the likes of Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Page (SEV-SNP) backed virtual machines...

Unaccepted Memory Merged For Linux 6.5, Helping AMD SEV-SNP ...  Phoronix

Hopefully by now all of you have moved off PS/2 mice and keyboards, but should you still have some old systems chugging along with PS/2 hardware, there are some improvements to find with the Linux 6.5 kernel currently under development...

Linux 6.5 Bringing Improvements To PS/2 Mouse & Keyboard Handling  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team on Thursday released the newest version of their Advanced Media Framework "AMF" SDK for Linux and Windows developers...

AMD AMF SDK 1.4.30 Released For Multimedia Processing On ...  Phoronix

The Linux 6.5 media subsystem updates were merged this week for the merge window that is wrapping up this weekend...

Mediatek Gains Stateless AV1/HEVC Codecs, Intel Atom ISP Driver ...  Phoronix

For those on the three-year-old GCC 10 compiler series, it's really time to move to a newer GNU Compiler Collection release for enjoying the latest language support, new hardware features, various optimizations, enhanced diagnostics, and more. But for those still bound to GCC 10 for whatever reason, GCC 10.5 was released today as one final update in the branch...

How I Went from Newbie to Linux System Administrator in Six Months  Zikoko

StackRot – New Linux kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability  GBHackers

Fedora Proposes Adding Telemetry to Fedora 40  WebProNews

"Fixing" WiFi 6 on Linux in Alder Lake-N mini PCs (Intel N95, N100 ...  CNX Software

“Fixing” WiFi 6 on Linux in Alder Lake-N mini PCs (Intel N95, N100, Core i3-N300…)  CNX Software

AMD Begins Zen 5 Prep, Sends First Linux Patches  Tom's Hardware

StackRot Linux Kernel Bug Has Exploit Code on the Way  Dark Reading

Out today is the first release candidate of systemd 254. This systemd update is another big feature release with new settings, new components, and many additions to existing systemd components. Plus there is some deprecations and breakage ahead for future releases...

How to Install and Set Up Snap on Arch Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

If there wasn't enough Red Hat drama happening in recent weeks, the Red Hat Display Systems Team is now considering to implement privacy-preserving telemetry beginning with Fedora Workstation 40...