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AMD on Friday upstreamed new Family 19h CPU microcode to linux-firmware.git...

AMD Publishes New Family 19h CPU Microcode  Phoronix

Linux kernel 6.0 debuts, Linus Torvalds teases ‘core new things’ coming in version 6.1  The Register

While the Steam on Linux marketshare has been consistently increasing this year since the launch of the Arch Linux powered Steam Deck, the September 2022 numbers are in and surprisingly there is a slight pull-back in Linux use...

Steam On Linux Usage Receded Slightly In September  Phoronix

New DDoS Malware 'Chaos' Hits Linux and Windows Devices  HackRead

Running Out of Space? How to Clone Your Linux System Drive to a Larger SSD With CloneZilla  MUO - MakeUseOf

System76 has been developing their own COSMIC desktop as the next evolution for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu base. Interestingly with this big COSMIC desktop undertaking, which is being written in the Rust programming language, they have decided to shift away from using the GTK toolkit to instead make use of Iced-Rs as a Rust-native, multi-platform graphical toolkit...

System76's Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop To Make Use Of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK  Phoronix

It's happening, folks! Linus Torvalds already indicated recently he intends to pull the initial Rust programming language support into the Linux 6.1 kernel cycle and today that pull request was submitted to him. Linux 6.0 isn't out yet but should be on Sunday unless any last minute problems, which in turn will mark the start of the two week v6.1 merge window...

Rust Infrastructure Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.1!  Phoronix

Tried dualbooting Kali Linux and Windows and I'm kinda stuck - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

What Is the Vmmem Process in Windows Task Manager? Here's How to Fix Its High Resource Consumption  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install Only Office 7.2 on Linux  BollyInside

How To Set Up an SSH Key For Secure Connections  Tom's Hardware

In addition to Ubuntu 22.10 switching to PipeWire as the default audio server replacement to PulseAudio, upstream Debian has done the same ahead of their Debian GNU/Linux 12 release next year...

Debian 12 Switches To PipeWire & WirePlumber By Default With The GNOME Desktop  Phoronix

AMD Revises Work On GPU Workload Hinting For Linux  Phoronix

AMD's Linux graphics driver engineers this week sent out their latest patch series working on workload hints that are used for dynamically tuning the power profile of AMD GPU SoCs based upon the specified workload indicator...

For those with an AMD APU system like the Steam Deck and using the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" and wanting to enjoy the popular game Red Dead Redemption 2, an important fix has been merged for Mesa 22.3...