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HP-BIOSCFG Driver Being Worked On For HP Laptop BIOS Management Under Linux  Phoronix

HP's commercial/business-focused laptops expose a Windows WMI interface that supports the web-based enterprise management of the BIOS configurations. The "HP-BIOSCFG" Linux driver is now being worked on to allow managing the BIOS settings for these HP laptops from within Linux...

The VirtIO changes were merged this week for the Linux 6.1 merge window that is ending this weekend...

Linux 6.1 Brings VirtIO Block "Secure Erase", vDPA Feature Provisioning  Phoronix

A set of 12 patches adding 720 lines of new code and removing 222 lines of existing code to Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver have been merged for Mesa 22.3 to help reduce the Vulkan push descriptor CPU overhead...

Intel's Vulkan Driver Lands More Patches To Help Reduce CPU Overhead  Phoronix

Among the pull requests coming in late in the merge window for the Linux 6.1 cycle is the "sched/psi" updates for the code improvements around Pressure Stall Information...

Linux 6.1 Picks Up Some Improvements For Pressure Stall Information (PSI)  Phoronix

Last month Intel published the XeSS 1.0 SDK for their Xe Super Sampling technology showcased with Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards. Sadly their initial SDK drop included Windows binaries and wasn't fully open-source. On Friday XeSS 1.0.1 was published with some bug fixes but still not being fully open-source...

Intel XeSS 1.0.1 Released With Bug Fixes  Phoronix

The KDE Plasma Wayland session is finally supporting high resolution scroll wheel support that was engineered by Red Hat and originally supported under GNOME for allowing a smoother scrolling experience on the Linux desktop...

KDE Plasma Wayland Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling  Phoronix

This morning's batch of Linux kernel point releases to existing stable series is worth upgrading to given the important security fixes...

Linux 6.0.2, 5.19.16 & Other Point Releases Arrive For Fixing WiFi Stack Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

While the freeze ahead of Wine 8.0 is quickly approaching, Wine 7.19 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

Wine 7.19 Released With VKD3D 1.5, MPEG-4 Audio Support  Phoronix

Linux, Windows and macOS Hit By New "Alchimist" Attack Framework  HackRead

Using Wikipedia from the Linux command line  Network World

Learn Linux online for free with Linux Foundation Courses from edX  TechRepublic

How to Use Log2Ram on Linux to Save Wear and Tear on Your Disks  MUO - MakeUseOf