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Linux 6.5-rc3 Released - Looking "Pretty Normal"  Phoronix

Within the very latest OpenBSD "current" code is now support for being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates...

How to Fix the “Error Splicing File: File Too Large” Error in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 8 Best GNOME-Based Linux Distros  MUO - MakeUseOf

MPV 0.36 is out today as the newest version of this open-source media player that was originally forked from the MPlayer/mplayer2 code and leveraging the FFmpeg library...

Debian 13 "Trixie" has been aiming for official RISC-V support and indeed it will happen: RISC-V has now been promoted to an official Debian CPU architecture...

How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  The Tech Edvocate

Mageia 9 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is shaping the future of Linux  BetaNews

Automatic IBRS is a new feature with AMD Zen 4 processors akin to Intel's Enhanced IBRS functionality. Linux 6.3 added Auto IBRS support but it turns out when that was being enabled an oversight was made...

It Turns Out Linux Is Supposed To Enable STIBP When Enabling ...  Phoronix

CZUR ET24 Pro book scanner review with Ubuntu 22.04 Linux  CNX Software

Intel Linux engineer Peter Zijlstra's EEVDF CPU scheduler code to replace the existing Completely Fair Scheduler "CFS" code looks like it will attempt to land with the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window...

EEVDF Scheduler May Be Ready For Landing With Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.13, Wine-Staging 8.13 is out today with 504 patches atop that upstream code-base...

Juno Tab 2 Linux tablet packs a bigger screen, more storage (and ...  Liliputing

Apple M2 MacBook Air Beat By AMD-Powered Gaming Handheld in ...  Tom's Hardware

Building off last month's release of Debian 12.0, Debian 12.1 is out today to ship dozens of bug fixes...

Debian 12.1 “Bookworm” Released with 89 Bug Fixes and 26 Security Updates  9to5Linux

Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver is now exposing system Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support with the necessary API bits being in place for the modern Rusticl OpenCL driver as well as the older Clover code. Plus with being a CPU-based driver there isn't any added work or complications around shared virtual memory...

Deploy a Docker Swarm on Rocky Linux  The New Stack