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AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop  Phoronix

KDE Frameworks 5.99 Brings More Plasma Wayland Improvements, Better Qt 6 Support  9to5Linux

How to Install a New Package Manager in Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Never-Before-Seen Malware Infected Hundreds Of Linux, Windows Devices  mitechnews.com

Among the new applications becoming available with Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" later this month is GNOME-Network-Displays for dealing with Miracast wireless displays...

GNOME-Network-Displays Available With Ubuntu 22.10 For Miracast Wireless Displays  Phoronix

Everything PC S02E03 – ‘Linux, Linux (almost) everywhere’  TechCentral

How to Use the head and tail Commands for Text Processing on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Tool to Integrate AppImages with Ubuntu Desktop  OMG! Ubuntu!

In early September AMD announced their new P-State "EPP" driver for Linux systems to further evolve their P-State driver effort started last year. This P-State EPP driver effort is aiming for better performance and power control while this weekend they sent out the second iteration of these Linux kernel patches...

AMD P-State EPP Driver Updated For Improving Linux Power Efficiency  Phoronix

Erik Faye-Lund of Collabora raised an interesting discussion this past week at XDC 2022 about leveraging Zink for post-OpenGL graphics development. With Zink able to run "anywhere" and currently focused on existing OpenGL APIs atop Vulkan, Zink could be used as a vehicle for developing new OpenGL APIs or trying to evolve the API in its own right while being able to run atop Vulkan API drivers on Windows or Linux...

EROFS as the read-only Linux file-system started by Huawei originally for Android devices continues seeing new adoption, including in the area of container use-cases beyond the original Android focus...

EROFS Lands FSCache-Based Shared Domain Support For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

My current little wish-list for Steam Deck upgrades  GamingOnLinux

Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted the USB and Thunderbolt feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.1 kernel...

Andrew Morton this afternoon submitted his memory management "MM" related updates for the Linux 6.1 merge window. Most notable with this pull request is the inclusion of Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" and the Maple Tree kernel features...

MGLRU & Maple Tree Submitted For Linux 6.1  Phoronix

EuroLinux: An Enterprise-Grade Linux Distro Based on RHEL  MUO - MakeUseOf

With Qt 6 porting and KDE Frameworks 6 development continuing at full-speed, KDE developers are looking at Plasma 5.27 being the last feature release in the Plasma 5 series...