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MX Linux 21.3 Released with Xfce 4.18 and Linux Kernel 6.0  9to5Linux

As part of Intel's forthcoming Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) specification is the new LKGS instruction for managing the state of the GS segment register in a more flexible manner. With Linux 6.3 the kernel will allow making use of the LKGS instruction where supported on future Intel CPUs...

Linux 6.3 To Support Making Use Of Intel's New LKGS Instruction ...  Phoronix

Another batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature code was submitted this week to DRM-Next as additional AMD Radeon kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.3...

Linux 6.3 Will Better Handle Missing AMD Radeon Firmware ...  Phoronix

The open-source developers working on developing the Rust-written Linux DRM kernel driver for Apple M1/M2 graphics as well as the Mesa AGX Gallium3D driver in user-space have now managed to successfully run a basic OpenGL ES 3.1 compute shader on the hardware with this open-source driver stack...

Basic OpenGL ES Compute Shader Support Begins Working For ...  Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 29.0 has been released as the open-source virtualization hypervisor that was started by Intel but then began seeing support by the likes of Microsoft and Arm. Cloud Hypervisor was since spunoff to the Linux Foundation where it continues seeing more industry support by the likes of AMD and Ampere...

Cloud Hypervisor 29 Released With Better Live Migration ...  Phoronix

MX Linux 21.3 Released with Xfce 4.18 and Linux Kernel 6.0  9to5Linux

Mabox Linux Called 'Throwback to Old-School Linux' - Slashdot  Slashdot

Linux Preparing To Disable Drivers For Microsoft's RNDIS Protocol ...  Slashdot

The 9 Best Career Options After Learning Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Out today is GNU Binutils 2.40 as the latest feature update to this wide collection of key binary utilities found on Linux systems and other platforms...

KDE Frameworks 5.102 Enables File Transfers over 2GB in KDE Connect  9to5Linux

System76 teases beefy Pangolin Linux laptop update with Ryzen 7 6800U  Notebookcheck.net

Gamescope (used on Steam Deck) adds in some VR support  GamingOnLinux

One of the exciting Coreboot / open-source firmware milestones of 2022 was a Coreboot/Dasharo port to a readily available Intel Alder Lake motherboard from MSI with the port being carried out by consulting firm 3mdeb. That port started with the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR4 and then more recently focused on the DDR5 variant. That MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR5 support has now been upstreamed into mainline Coreboot...

MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi DDR5 Support Upstreamed To Coreboot  Phoronix

Intel Posts Linux Patches For Linear Address Space Separation ...  Phoronix