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Last year the USB4 v2.0 specification was published as the next iteration of the USB4 standard. USB4 v2 supports 80 Gbps transfer rates with USB Type-C active cables and the ability to handle up to 120 Gbps in one direction and 40 Gbps for the other direction. Intel is contributing initial support for USB4 v2 to the Linux 6.5 kernel along with initial enablement on their new Intel Barlow Ridge discrete controller...

Linux 6.5 Adding Initial Support For USB4 v2, Intel Barlow Ridge  Phoronix

wilivm Named Among Best and High Speed VPS Providers Catering ...  Digital Journal

Defying Red Hat, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux Vow to Continue ...  Slashdot

After being in development for more than one year, Perl 5.38 released today as the latest feature update to this programming language...

Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat today published a new version of the Wayland-Protocols package that consists of all the stable and staging protocol definitions for use in the Wayland world...

The Virtual Function I/O "VFIO" changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.5 kernel merge window. This IOMMU/device agnostic framework has added an AMD CDX driver this cycle along with other improvements for this subsystem that is important to the Linux virtualization stack...

VFIO In Linux 6.5 Adds Support For The AMD CDX Bus  Phoronix

The in-development GCC 14 compiler has added support for the MIPS16e2 processor ISA...

GE-Proton 8-6 is out now fixing up more games for Linux and Steam ...  GamingOnLinux

Reminder: Update your PC info for our statistics page  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation's Yocto Project Expands LTS to 4 Years  Slashdot

How to Create a User in Linux  Beebom

After RHEL 7's EOL, Red Hat Will Offer a 4-Year 'Extended Life ...  Slashdot

Using ffmpeg for Intruder Protection in Linux  Open Source For You

Debian 12 Bookworm-based Peppermint OS Linux distribution now ...  BetaNews

The 5 Best Vim-Inspired Text Editors for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Besides being curious about the Steam Survey results for indicating the size of the Linux gaming marketshare as an overall percentage, one of the interesting metrics we are curious about each month is the AMD vs. Intel CPU marketshare for Linux gaming. AMD has been on quite an upward trajectory among Linux gamers/enthusiasts in recent years not only for their Radeon graphics cards with their popular open-source driver stack but their Ryzen CPUs have become extremely popular with Linux users. With the new Steam Survey results for June, AMD CPUs are found on nearly 70% of Linux gaming systems polled by Steam...

AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare  Phoronix

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.4 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux