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It's wild to think that the ARM Cortex-A72 was already announced ten years ago as the ARM core design that went on to appear in the Raspberry Pi 4, AWS Graviton server processor, and various other SoCs. ARM Cortex-A72 based hardware remains in widespread use and finally by the end of 2025 there will be a mainline Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver in the mainline Linux kernel for this core...

Years Later, EDAC Linux Driver Coming For The ARM Cortex-A72  Phoronix

The open-source upstream driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 that is used by the Snapdragon X1 Plus 8-core SoC appears ready for the mainline kernel and could be all aligned for the upcoming Linux v6.18 kernel cycle...

Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Valve Proton marks 7th anniversary  VideoCardz.com

Linux IO_uring and block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe this week queued the patch series for multi-shot support with provided buffers. Thus the feature should go in for Linux 6.18 as another nice enhancement to the wonderful IO_uring kernel innovation...

IO_uring Ready For uring_cmd Multishot Support With Provided Buffers  Phoronix

Can a file name compromise a Linux system? Chinese hackers say so  Red Hot Cyber

Sorry, Bill Gates: I haven't used Windows for years, and I don't miss it one bit  xda-developers.com

5 things I learned trying to game on Linux for the first time in years  xda-developers.com

Sorry, Linux Fans: This OS Is Actually the Better Windows Replacement  MakeUseOf

Want an Affordable Linux Desktop PC? Just Buy a Steam Deck  Yahoo! Tech

A patch series posted overnight that is part of a larger planned rework for the kernel to introduce a "Swap Table" is poised to bring significant real-world performance gains to the Linux kernel...

Gnoppix Makes Using AI on Linux a Snap, With One Caveat  The New Stack

For those that happen to have an HP Victus 16-r1000 gaming laptop or considering one with the 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics, the Linux support is now slightly better off thanks to the HP-WMI driver adding fan and thermal profile support for the Victus 16-r1000 series...

Linux 6.17 Adds Fan & Thermal Profile Support For HP Victus 16-r1000 Gaming Laptops  Phoronix

Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by default for a better video playback experience on the Linux desktop with Wayland-based environments...

Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland  Phoronix

Why Anti-Cheat Software Hinders Linux Gaming Compatibility  WebProNews

Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-clocking within the open-source Nouveau driver...