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If you are running the newest Intel Raptor Lake processors with integrated graphics and the latest Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards under Linux, you are currently relying on the Intel "i915" DRM kernel graphics driver... As implied by the name, it's been used with Intel graphics going back to the old 915G chipset days nearly twenty years ago. But Intel has been working on a new "Xe" kernel graphics driver they have initially announced today and aim to make it production-ready in 2023 for supporting their modern Xe Graphics hardware...

Intel Preparing New "Xe" Linux Kernel Graphics Driver For Modern iGPUs & dGPUs  Phoronix

Is this CVSS 10 Linux Kernel vuln going to ruin your Christmas?  The Stack

3 Sure Ways to Get in the Christmas Spirit With Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Rsync files from Android to Linux  AddictiveTips

cheat.sh Gives You Access to the Best Linux and Programming ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Steam Winter Sale 2022 is live now, plus vote for the Steam Awards  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.2 Adds AMD Zen 4 Pipeline Utilization Data To Help Find ...  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window ending this weekend, a second batch of the perf subsystem changes have been submitted for this next Linux kernel version. Notable among the various additions to the powerful Linux kernel perf code is handling for various new performance monitoring events with new AMD Zen 4 processors...

The Qt Group has released Qt 6.5 beta just in time for Christmas as what will be their next toolkit feature release premiering as stable around the end of Q1...

Following the basic AMD Zen 4 "znver4" target enablement that was merged for the GCC 13 compiler in October, patches to begin providing tuned support have begun merging for this next GNU Compiler Collection release...

Proton 7.0-6 now in testing for Steam Deck & Linux desktop  GamingOnLinux

Why Do SUSE's Intentions To Expand Globally Favor India Over ...  Inventiva

While this week saw the ratification of the Vulkan Video 1.0 extensions in stable form after being out as provisional extensions since early 2021, one of the sad aspects of it is still lacking support for the popular royalty-free VP9 and AV1 codecs. Fortunately, at least, it's been re-affirmed for VP9/AV1 support in 2023...

Fedora is looking at disallowing X.Org/XWayland clients of difference CPU endianess from connecting to the X.Org Server. Such a combination of different endianess between the X.Org Server and clients is rather rare these days but is yet another "large attack surface" of the X.Org Server that needs addressing...

Fedora Linux Looks To Close Another "Large Attack Surface" With ...  Phoronix

Ampere Computing's SMPro is a system control processor that is an Arm Cortex-M3 serving as a co-processor and handles interfacing with the BMC, error handling, system booting, power fail detection, and other tasks. The SMPro is found starting with Ampere Computing's current Ampere Altra server processors while in Linux 6.2 a lot of its functionality is finally being upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel...

Ampere Altra SMPro Co-Processor Support Getting Squared Away ...  Phoronix

OpenBMC 2.12 has finally been tagged as the first new version since January 2021 for this open-source, Linux-powered baseboard management controller (BMC) software stack...

OpenBMC 2.12 Released For This Open-Source, Linux-Powered ...  Phoronix