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Linux driver patch suggests AMD Dragon Range and Phoenix APUs will feature RDNA 3 integrated graphics  KitGuru

While for years Intel has been very well regarded -- and rightfully so -- for their open-source Linux hardware support, occasionally there are exceptions. One such exception currently is Intel's IPU6 drivers for their MIPI cameras found on many newer Alder lake laptops and presumably upcoming Raptor Lake laptops too. The IPU6 drivers remain outside of the Linux kernel and will still likely be that way for sometime...

Intel's IPU6 Webcam Linux Driver Still A Mess, But Some Patches To Help  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.1-rc7 kernel set to be released later today, it will become easier making use of the AMD P-State driver for that enhanced CPU frequency scaling driver intended for Zen 2 and newer EPYC/Ryzen platforms that make use of ACPI CPPC...

Linux 6.1-rc7 Makes It Easier To Manage The AMD P-State Driver  Phoronix

Linux getrandom vDSO Implementation Updated, Glibc Patch In Testing  Phoronix

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard fame has been working the past several months of adding getrandom() to the vDSO for achieving better performance and working the needs of user-space developers. Early results have been impressive and this week Donenfeld sent out the seventh iteration of these patches...

Top 20 Basic Linux Commands – Linux Basics  Security Boulevard

Is there any way to control how Linux uses the second monitor?  HardForum

Is there any way to control how Linux uses the second monitor?  HardForum

The first release candidate of the Sway 1.8 Wayland compositor is now available for testing...

How to get Lapce working on Linux  AddictiveTips

Rnote: An Open-Source Drawing App for Notes and Annotation  It's FOSS

At the start of the calendar year Samsung engineers posted Linux patches bringing to enable the Tesla full self-driving "FSD" SoC within the mainline Linux kernel. Linux 5.18 picked up the initial Tesla FSD SoC support and since then other support remnants have continued to be worked on like media functionality. The latest open-source, upstream-focused Tesla FSD SoC work is on enabling PCIe functionality...

Samsung's Latest Linux Upstreaming Work For The Tesla FSD SoC Is PCIe Support  Phoronix

How to Install Microsoft OneDrive on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install Microsoft OneDrive on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

bat: A Modern Alternative to the Classic Linux cat Command  MUO - MakeUseOf

bat: A Modern Alternative to the Classic Linux cat Command  MUO - MakeUseOf

Open-source graphics driver engineer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux team landed a number of stream-out fixes this week for RADV's Next-Gen Geometry (NGG) Stream-Out handling...