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The Linux 6.3 merge window has been off to a good start with Linus Torvalds receiving plenty of pull requests in advance, the other early pulls all coming in quite orderly, and no colorful commentary on any of the material set for Linux 6.3 even with the likes of Microsoft Pluton (TPM2 CRB). But today Torvalds' did feel the need to share some wisdom around Git merge log message advice...

Last week I published a number of Linux gaming benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 high-end graphics cards now that they finally arrived for my Linux testing on Phoronix. For those more interested in creator workloads and GPU OpenCL and CUDA compute performance for these high-end consumer Ada Lovelace graphics cards, this article is for you with an initial look at the compute performance across a wide range of workloads from Blender OptiX and CUDA rendering to common OpenCL GPU benchmarks.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090/4090 Linux Compute CUDA & OpenCL Benchmarks, Blender Performance Review  Phoronix

The much anticipated Godot 4.0 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is imminent. Out today is Godot 4.0 RC3 which could end up being the final test release before this big game engine release...

Linux 6.2 is up and running on M1 Macs but still missing many key features  Macworld

Sent out today for the Linux 6.3 kernel merge window are the updates to the printk code. Notable this time around are preparations to printk in working toward threaded/atomic consoles support. That threaded/atomic consoles support is all the more important as it's the last piece of the puzzle before the remainder of the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) patches can be upstreamed into the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.3 printk Changes Prepare For Threaded/Atomic Consoles  Phoronix

How to Open the Terminal in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Elektrobit and Canonical announce EB corbos Linux – built on ...  Automotive World

openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta Is Out for Testing, Final Release Expected in June 2023  9to5Linux

1980s mystery adventure Unusual Findings added Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Environmental strategy game Terra Nil releases March 28th  GamingOnLinux

Elektrobit and Canonical announce EB corbos Linux - built on Ubuntu  PR Newswire

Merged back in December was the initial GCC Rust front-end "gccrs" for the GCC 13 compiler that will be released as stable within the next month or two. Squeezing today into the GCC 13 code-base is an additional 103 patches for this Rust front-end...

M1 Mac Linux 6.2 support for M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra  9to5Mac

M1 Mac Linux 6.2 support for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Studio, Mac mini  9to5Mac

Linux Systems Are Not Created Equal, but They're All Equally Linux  TechNewsWorld

Linux Systems Are Not Created Equal, but They're All Equally Linux  LinuxInsider.com

Linux's New Update Will Make Apple Even More Richer  Analytics India Magazine

The openSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta builds have begun for helping to test out this Linux distribution update that is planned to be the last of the Leap 15 series...