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Intel Meteor Lake GuC Firmware Support Published  Phoronix

Going back years there has been patches for allowing the Linux x86_64 kernel to build as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code to further enhance the system security. Antgroup engineers most recently have been tackling the Linux x86_64 PIE support and last week sent out a new patch series...

New Patches Aim To Tackle Linux x86_64 PIE Support  Phoronix

Intel Shaodw Stack support was submitted for Linux 6.4 at the start of the merge window but now with this two-week merge window drawing to a close, it hasn't been pulled yet and Linus Torvalds raised technical issues with the proposed patches that now jeopardize its arrival this cycle...

Intel Shadow Stack For Linux Hits Last-Minute Snag With Issue ...  Phoronix

Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) Daily Build ISOs Are Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

The 7 Best Free Sound Recording Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Steps to Upgrade from Ubuntu 22.10 to Ubuntu 23.04 Desktop  H2S Media

You Can Build This Raspberry Pi-Powered, 4G Linux Phone  Tom's Hardware

OURphone is a DIY Raspberry Pi-powered Linux smartphone  Liliputing

Pipe FMODE_NOWAIT Support Sent In For Linux 6.4 As A 10~23x ...  Phoronix

While the Linux 6.4 merge window is closing this weekend, today on the last full day of the period is Jens Axboe submitting pipe FMODE_NOWAIT support as what he's described as a big performance and efficiency improvement...

One of the missing RISC-V features now in place for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel is system hibernation / suspend-to-disk support...

RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support  Phoronix

Intel software engineers have released a new version of their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) as their C language variant with extensions for enhancing single-program, multiple-data programming for both CPUs and GPUs...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The Intel LAM Code In Linux 6.4  Phoronix

While these days Linus Torvalds is mostly dealing with herding new code into the Linux kernel and being a gate keeper rather than actively developing new kernel code himself, for the in-development Linux 6.4 he's found himself doing a bit of coding...

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham shared that key KDE developers are currently in Germany for an in-person Plasma 6.0 development sprint...

CIQ Mountain launch targeted at IT execs in need of reducing complexity  Channel Daily News

Top 20 User-Friendly Linux Distros: Guide for Ideal OS  Mirage News