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Since 2020 Intel engineers have been working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) as a feature similar to Arm's Top Byte Ignore (TBI) for letting user-space store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. This can be of use to virtual machines, profiling / sanitizers / tagging, and other applications. The Intel LAM kernel support has finally been merged with Linux 6.4...

Intel Linear Address Masking "LAM" Merged Into Linux 6.4  Phoronix

Compatibility layer Wine release v8.7 is out now  GamingOnLinux

In preparing for releasing Debian 12.0 "Bookworm" in June, out this weekend is the second release candidate of the Debian Installer for this next major Debian Linux release...

Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released  Phoronix

KDE developers this month have been tackling many open bugs as well as seeing the early Plasma 6 development state rough yet usable. In ending out April, they continued their "bug slaughterfest" in whittling away at their open bug count...

Debian 11.7 Released: Seventh ISO Update Brings Enhanced ...  Linux Journal

System76 Plans Its Own Open Hardware Laptop, and a New ...  Slashdot

Wine 8.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to enjoy running Windows games and applications across Linux / BSDs / macOS / Chrome OS platforms...

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor had a very rough launch  GamingOnLinux

Dust off your game dev environment with the Linux Game Jam 2023  GamingOnLinux

The Kubuntu Focus Ir14 Is a Premium Linux Laptop With KDE  How-To Geek

2011 imac can't seem to boot into anything except linux  MacRumors

Nitrux 2.8 Released with Linux 6.2, Zswap, Support for Android Apps, and More  9to5Linux

TUXEDO unveils next-gen InfinityBook Pro 14: A powerful, ultra ...  BetaNews

Kubuntu Focus Ir14 is a 3 pound Linux laptop with Core i5-12450H ...  Liliputing

Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers  Phoronix

As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem...

After the patches had been in development for well more than a year, sent out today for the Linux 6.4 merge window are the NFS server (NFSD) changes that include supporting RPC-with-TLS...

Linux 6.4 NFS Server Adds RPC-With-TLS Support  Phoronix