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KDE developer Nate Graham is out early with his usual weekly development summary that highlights all of this prominent open-source desktop environment. Notable this week is KDE integrating support for re-binding extra mouse buttons as well as a lot of continued work on Discover...

Linux 6.1 will tell you when your CPU is crocked  TechRadar

1. Linux 6.1 will tell you when your CPU is crocked  TechRadar
2. Intel Smooth Sync Support Being Worked On For Linux Graphics Driver  Phoronix
3. Linux Kernel 6.1 Introduces Faulty CPU Core Detection Logging Feature  Tom's Hardware
4. Linux Kernel 6.1 introduces the unjustification of the CPU - Game News 24  Game News 24
5. Bad CPU Core Detection Logging Feature in Linux Kernel 6.1  BollyInside
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How to upgrade to LibreOffice 7.4 on Linux  AddictiveTips

How to Get Started With Software-Defined Radio on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

NetworkManager 1.40 has been released as this widely-used software for configuring wired and wireless network interfaces under Linux...

Linux could leave Windows 11 in the dust as Intel hybrid CPUs get further optimizations  Neowin

How to Trap Errors in Bash Scripts on Linux  How-To Geek

Canonical has released a new version of Mir, their display server that now focuses on making it easy adapting new environments to use Wayland by being an adaptable Wayland compositor...

How to Update Firmware in Your Linux Machine  Make Tech Easier

How to Update Firmware in Your Linux Machine  Make Tech Easier

While we are about three years out from seeing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, it was announced today that the GTK2 toolkit will not be supported in that next major RHEL version...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Is Eliminating GTK 2 Support  Phoronix

FOSS Weekly #22.31: Tweaking Nemo, Tools to Understand Linux Commands and More  It's FOSS News

In the year since Intel announced 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" processors there have been a number of patches tuning the Linux kernel's scheduler and other code to better deal with the mix of the performance and efficient cores. While that looked to be all buttoned up for a number of months now with Alder Lake CPUs performing well on Linux, another patch series further adjusting the Linux sched/fair code was published to help with these Intel hybrid processor designs...

New Intel Patch Series To Further Help Alder Lake / Hybrid CPUs On Linux  Phoronix

While Intel GPUs support VESA Adaptive-Sync, for Arc Graphics Intel announced Smooth Sync as what amounts to a dithering filter to make screen tearing less of an issue when not running with vsync enabled or lacking an Adaptive-Sync display...

Intel Smooth Sync Support Being Worked On For Linux Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Meta/Facebook engineers have announced their work on THP Shrinker as a way for Linux's Transparent Hugepages (THP) to be more efficient and avoiding memory waste by removing under-utilized transparent hugepages...

Facebook Developing THP Shrinker To Avoid Linux Memory Waste  Phoronix