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[Fixed] "apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d"  It's FOSS

Yesterday marked the release of Linux 6.0-rc1 and as such the merge window is no over and no more feature work is set to land in this kernel version. Here is my write-up of all the interesting new features and changes/improvements coming for Linux 6.0.

Google Ups Its Linux Security Awards – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

PyPI package installs cryptominer on Linux systems  Developer News

Greg Kroah-Hartman as the Linux kernel's stable maintainer and effectively Linus Torvalds' second-in-command has suggested avoiding Intel Alder Lake laptops. While much of the Alder Lake laptop support for Linux is in good shape, the exception is around web cameras. These newer laptops with Intel's latest web-camera tech are not currently supported by the mainline kernel and require proprietary software for use. Some platforms like Ubuntu and ChromeOS are picking up these blobs for now while a proper open-source, upstream solution is likely months -- or likely about one year -- away...

Greg KH Recommends Avoiding Alder Lake Laptops - Intel Webcam Linux Driver Long Ways Out  Phoronix

AMD today sent out revised patches for improving the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling Linux driver that aims to provide better power efficiency than the generic ACPI CPUFreq driver that has long been relied upon for AMD processors...

AMD P-State Patches Updated But Miss The Linux 6.0 Merge Window  Phoronix

Less than one month away is the release of Blender 3.3 and it looks like Intel's initial oneAPI GPU acceleration is ready and in decent shape for Windows and Linux...

While Linux 6.0 will bring a lot of shiny new features, Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) is one of the anticipated changes that isn't going to land now until Linux 6.1. But in the interim, MGLRU v14 was posted today that re-bases the code against 6.0-rc1 to help facilitate more testing of this kernel change that primarily helps Linux systems under memory pressure...

MGLRU v14 Released For Improving Linux Low-Memory Performance  Phoronix

Ice Lake Based Xeon Platinum 8380 Offers Massive Performance Increments In Linux 6.0  Appuals

Easy Anti-Cheat not working on Linux? Seems a glibc update broke it  GamingOnLinux

A new PyPI Package found delivering fileless Linux Malware  Security Affairs

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 14th, 2022  9to5Linux

Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 “Ice Lake” CPU Shows Great Improvement In Linux 6.0  Wccftech

Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference  The Register

Is Elementary OS your best first Linux distribution?  ZDNet

Linux 6.0 arrives with performance improvements and more Rust coming  ZDNet

Using the watch command on Linux  Network World