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Last month a change proposal was filed for aiming to yield faster reboots and shutdowns of Fedora Linux by shortening the time window that services can block the shutdown process. A modified version of that change proposal has now been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee...

Fedora 38 Change Approved To Mandate Quicker Reboots ...  Phoronix

Starting to appear in Linux 6.2 as part of the various "fixes" pull requests are new device IDs for adding Intel 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" support for drivers not requiring any other code changes over the existing Sapphire Rapids code path.s..

Intel Emerald Rapids Driver Additions Begin Landing In Linux 6.2  Phoronix

AYANEO confirm their Linux-based AYANEO OS arrives this year  GamingOnLinux

The Linux Foundation Announces Conference Schedule for Cassandra Summit 2023  Yahoo Finance

The Linux Foundation Announces Conference Schedule for Cassandra Summit 2023  Yahoo Finance

The Linux Foundation Announces Conference Schedule for ...  PR Newswire

Itel strengthens its Smart TV portfolio- launches new line of Linux TVs  Sangri Today

AMD Zen 4's Automatic IBRS Feature Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.3  Phoronix

With AMD Zen 4 processors there is a new Automatic IBRS (Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation) similar to Intel's Enhanced IBRS (eIBRS) functionality for offering lower-overhead Spectre V2 mitigations compared to the Retpoline approach used on Zen 3 and prior. Finally with Linux 6.3 that Auto IBRS support is now set to be merged...

Circle of Kerzoven is an upcoming settlement builder with lots of ...  GamingOnLinux

Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Begin Preparing For "NVK" Open-Source Vulkan Support  Phoronix

Over the past year NVK has taken shape as a -- currently out-of-tree -- Mesa Vulkan driver for supporting NVIDIA graphics hardware. This open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver is inching closer to the point of being upstreamed into Mesa, but before it's usable for gamers/enthusiasts there is kernel work that must happen too...

Stone Kingdoms is an in-development open source remake of ...  GamingOnLinux

One of the exciting announcements Intel made just before Christmas was announcing their work on the new "Xe" kernel graphics driver for Linux. This new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver will eventually replace the long-standing i915 kernel driver when it comes to handling Gen12 integrated and discrete graphics as well as future Intel graphics hardware...

The Windows game Control that runs via Valve's Steam Play no longer needs the RADV_PERFTEST=rt environment variable override to enjoy the ray-tracing support but with Mesa 23.1 (and potentially backported for 23.0) will work out-of-the-box...

Mesa RADV Driver Now Working With The Game "Control" Out-Of-The-Box  Phoronix

GE-Proton 7-44 is out with multiple game-specific fixes, plus initial ...  GamingOnLinux

The Genode open-source operating system framework that pursues a micro-kernel design has published their technical roadmap for the 2023 calendar year...