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Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" is one of the most exciting low-level kernel innovations in recent time and is already used by Google's Chrome OS and Android as well as having proven itself in various other downstream kernel builds. MGLRU is planned for upstreaming in Linux 6.1 and in preparation for that, Andrew Morton has now queued those patches into his "mm-unstable" branch for further vetting...

MGLRU Patches Picked Up By Andrew Morton's "mm-unstable" Branch Ahead Of Linux 6.1  Phoronix

NTFS3 as the modern Linux kernel read/write file-system driver for NTFS that was open-sourced by Paragon Software is seeing some late code refactoring and fixes for Linux 6.0...

New Linux Exploit 'Dirty Cred' Revealed at Black Hat | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

Lilbits: iPhone 14 announcement imminent, UE Wonderboom 3 has a micro USB port, don't count out Netflix games just yet, and Linux phone news  Liliputing

VEIKK VK1200 Drawing Tablet With 11.6-inch 1080p Display Works On Linux For ~$169 Review  Phoronix

VEIKK is a company I previously hadn't heard of that offers a range of pen displays and drawing tablets for digital artists. At first when they reached out around reviewing one of their drawing tablets, I questioned their Linux support but it turns out their graphics tablets do work across all major platforms. I've been trying out the VEIKK VK1200 the past few weeks and it's been working out decent as a 11.6-inch drawing monitor for just $169 USD.

Earlier this summer I wrote about Canonical working to provide good support for StarFive's VisionFive low-cost RISC-V board. That work has now culminated with an Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS image for use on this Chinese RISC-V single board computer...

Attention Microsoft-oriented Linux devs: .NET 6 is on Ubuntu 22.04  The Register

How to Compare Binary Files on Linux  How-To Geek

Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince out with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

.NET 6 Support Comes to Linux  Redmond Channel Partner

Canonical and Microsoft Add .NET 6 Support to Ubuntu Linux  Redmondmag.com

1. Canonical and Microsoft Add .NET 6 Support to Ubuntu Linux  Redmondmag.com
2. Microsoft .NET 6 bundled with Ubuntu Linux  InfoWorld
3. Canonical/Microsoft Partnership Puts .NET 6 into Ubuntu Linux  Visual Studio Magazine
4. Attention Microsoft-oriented Linux devs: .NET 6 is on Ubuntu 22.04  The Register
5. Microsoft Partners with Canonical to Bring .NET 6 to Ubuntu Linux  Thurrott.com
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Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller support is coming to Linux  PC Gamer

Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller support is coming to Linux  PC Gamer

While Linux 6.0 won't be out for another month and a half, on deck already for Linux 6.1 is the AMD Platform Management Framework "PMF" driver being queued into platform-drivers-x86.git...

Microsoft's Xbox Adaptive Controller is intended for gamers with limited mobility and is intended as a control hub to making gaming more accessible. Linux support for the Xbox Adaptive Controller is being worked on...

Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller Support Being Worked On For Linux  Phoronix

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has started seeing support land for VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library thanks to the work of one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...