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How to Create a Cool Photo Mosaic on Linux With Polyfoto  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Create a Cool Photo Mosaic on Linux With Polyfoto  MUO - MakeUseOf

KDE neon is Now Based on Ubuntu 22.04 ‘Jammy Jellyfish’  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Operating System Market Size, Share, Trend, Register Exponential Growth, Business Opportunity, Regional Data, Demand, Key Players Throughout 2022-2029  Digital Journal

AMD Per-Thread CPU Microcode Loading Fix Submitted For Linux 6.1-rc2  Phoronix

A set of "x86/urgent" patches were sent out this morning for pulling into the Linux kernel ahead of today's 6.1-rc2 release...

There has long been a debate over an "accelerator" subsystem for the Linux kernel given the increasing number of AI/accelerator devices coming to market. Currently there are accelerator drivers living within the catch-all "char/misc" area of the kernel while some driver efforts have been focused on Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem integration given the commonality with GPUs and some of the core infrastructure and APIs being relevant for both GPUs and these dedicated accelerator ASICs. There finally seems to be some agreement over the future of the accelerator subsystem and some initial patches were mailed out this weekend...

Patches Posted For Preparing New Linux "Accel" Subsystem - Builds Off DRM Code  Phoronix

A new Linux driver introduced by Intel earlier this year was the In-Field Scan for making use of new silicon failure testing functionality with upcoming Intel server CPUs. The IFS driver and associated hardware capability is for detecting potential problems not caught by parity or ECC checks on systems in production. In-Field Scan was merged in Linux 5.19 but then shortly thereafter the driver was marked "broken" due to some driver design issues coming to light. New patches for IFS have been posted to improve the driver's design and remove that "broken" tag...

Intel In-Field Scan (IFS) Driver Improved - Will Remove Its "Broken" Tag  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds has backed the idea of possibly removing Intel 486 (i486) processor support from the Linux kernel...

The Linux Kernel May Finally Phase Out Intel i486 CPU Support  Phoronix

How to Use the wc Command in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

After being worked on the past year, Mesa 22.3 has landed support for Wayland's DMA-BUF Feedback extension for use by the Mesa Vulkan drivers with the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code...

In addition to GCC landing patches this week in preparing for Grand Ridge and Sierra Forest, the LLVM/Clang open-source compiler stack has also been seeing patches to prepare for future Intel server processors...

Valve put up a few more fixes in the new Steam Deck Beta  GamingOnLinux

Intel earlier this year more formally announced DAOS as its distributed parallel file-system designed for NVMe storage and aims to be more efficient than other parallel file-systems. Yesterday marked the release of DAOS 2.2 as the newest step forward for Distributed Application Object Storage...

FreeBSD had a busy Friday with releasing their first beta of the upcoming FreeBSD 12.4 as well as publishing their third quarter development summary...

Last week saw the release of Plasma 5.26 while this week KDE developers moved on to more feature work for Plasma 5.27 while also addressing some fall-out and fixes for Plasma 5.26...

How to Create Custom Linux Mint or Ubuntu ISO  It's FOSS