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Alpine Linux 3.18 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Musl Libc ...  Phoronix

Alpine Linux 3.18 Is Out with Linux 6.1 LTS, Experimental Support for Unattended Installs  9to5Linux

2 Easy Ways to Capture Bluetooth Traffic on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Last week Corsair announced the MP700 series as their first PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives. While the performance is quite speedy for sequential reads and writes, in practice this drive struggled under Linux with real-world workloads. When not adding an after-market heatsink, the MP700 was quick to exhibit EXT4 file-system errors.

Steam Deck news round-up for early May 2023  GamingOnLinux

Intel today published 38 new security advisories in their first Patch Tuesday roundabout since February. Among the new disclosures today are CVE-2023-28410 as an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Affected By Privilege Escalation ...  Phoronix

New Linux kernel NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges  BleepingComputer

Freespire closes the gap between Linux and Windows 10  BetaNews

How to Install Kali Linux on an M1 or M2 Mac  The Mac Observer

Pygame installation on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Royal Ransomware Expands to Target Linux, VMware ESXi  Dark Reading

Lenovo Refreshes ThinkStation and ThinkPad Workstations  StorageReview.com

Lazarus DreamJob campaign targets Linux users  My Startup World

Sadly missing out on the Linux 6.4 kernel merge window by a few days is support for sensor monitoring with the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Hero motherboard...

ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Hero Sensor Monitoring To Come ...  Phoronix

Linux Patch Adds Support for Intel Meteor Lake Desktop CPUs  ExtremeTech

While Intel's in-development Xe kernel graphics driver is focused on supporting Tigerlake/Gen12 graphics and newer integrated/discrete graphics with this modern open-source driver with many design improvements over the aging i915 kernel driver, there looks to be one feature that as currently positioned will be missing for DG2/Alchemist: HuC support for helping with media offloading...

Intel's Experimental Xe Driver For Linux Lacking HuC Media Support ...  Phoronix

Adding to the list of features coming with QEMU 8.1 is now having a native PipeWire audio back-end...