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One of the Linux patch series that has been in the works for years in conjunction with Clang compiler side changes and already being responsible for exposing hundreds of kernel bugs is the KernelMemorySanitizer (KMSAN). Sent out today was the latest patch series working on the kernel infrastructure for catching uninitialized memory issues...

KMSAN Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated For Catching Uninitialized Memory Problems  Phoronix

Asahi Linux on an Apple M1 Mac mini is ‘unbelievably fast’  MacDailyNews

Google today announced the first public beta of Android 13...

Self-Hosted Static Homepages: Dashy Vs. Homer  Linux Journal

7 Reasons Why Linux Isn't Dominating the Desktop OS Market  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Panfrost open-source, reverse-engineered Arm Mali driver stack so far has been focused on Midgard and Bifrost architectures but the newer Valhall graphics support is beginning to materialize. Since last year the developers involved have been working heavy on reverse engineering and bringing up Valhall. More of that Valhall driver support landed today...

NVIDIA released the 510.68.02 Linux driver today as a very minor bug-fix release...

MontaVista Launches MVEdge, a Commercially Supported End-to-End Solution for the Intelligent Edge  EIN News

2022 Call for Code Global Challenge Urges Developers to Create Solutions that Accelerate Sustainability and Take On Climate Change  PR Newswire

Oracle this morning published the GraalVM Community Edition 22.1 feature release for this high-performance Java/JDK distribution that also provides runtimes for JavaScript, Python, and other languages...

How to take a screenshot on any computer  Android Authority

New SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux Version 9.6.1 Adds Support for the Latest Versions of Key Operating Systems, Databases and Cloud Features  GlobeNewswire

Hands on With GNOME's New Text Editor for Linux Users  It's FOSS

While Intel launched the Arc A-Series Mobile Graphics at the end of Q1, so far at least in major US markets no laptops with these graphics are currently available. As such it's hard to assess the current Linux driver support level and with no clear communication from Intel on the matter. Intel has been working on their upstream DG2/Alchemist support for a while but it looks like with the Linux 5.19 kernel this summer is what will likely be their base version requirement for the DG2/Alchemist-based Intel GPUs...

Linux 5.19 Looks Like It Will Be The Base Requirement For Intel Arc Graphics / Alchemist  Phoronix

Back in 2020 file-system driver provider Paragon Software announced they wanted to upstream their NTFS driver into the Linux kernel. This driver was previously a proprietary, commercial offering from the company but given the state of NTFS these days they wanted to upstream this driver with full read/write support and other features not found within the existing NTFS driver. Finally last year after going through many rounds of review, the new driver was merged into Linux 5.15. Sadly, less than one year later, concerns have been raised that the driver is already effectively orphaned and not being maintained...

Concerns Raised Over The "New" NTFS Linux Driver That Merged Last Year  Phoronix

It looks like Linux 5.19 will have all the base preparations in place for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) support...

Originally attempted with Linux 5.18 were patches so /dev/urandom and /dev/random would behave exactly the same. That was dropped though due to not enough randomness at boot for some platforms like Arm 32-bit, Motorola m68k, Microblaze, Xtensa, and others. But then the change went in to opportunistically initialize /dev/random as a best-effort approach where it at least works nicely on x86/x86_64. The good news is that original unification effort may be re-visited in the future now that the original blocker issue has been addressed...