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Before getting busy with the AMD Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" desktop testing, I recently wrapped up some benchmarks looking at the ACPI CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State frequency scaling drivers and various governor options for the AMD Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" mobile SoCs. If you are curious about the impact of CPUFreq/P-State and the various governors for the latest AMD laptops running Linux, this round of testing is for you.

IceWM 3.0 was released today as the latest major update to this X11 window manager that has been development since the late 90's with a particular focus on simplicity and speed...

Install OpenToonz on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux - Linux Shout  Linux Shout

Here come the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux distros  ZDNet

KDE devs talk Steam Deck and their work for it at Akademy 2022, over a million shipped  GamingOnLinux

Linux: AWS now offers Ubuntu virtual desktops for developers and engineers  ZDNet

AMD driver update gets Red Dead Redemption 2 working better on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Researchers Link Cheerscrypt Linux-Based Ransomware to Chinese Hackers  The Hacker News

Researchers Link Cheerscrypt Linux-Based Ransomware to Chinese Hackers  The Hacker News

OpenMandriva ROME is a rolling-release version of this Linux distribution whose roots trace back to the days of Mandriva and before that Mandrake Linux. This rolling release flavor of OpenMandriva is now up to a "gold" candidate status...

OpenMandriva's Rolling Release Reaches "Gold", Continues With AMD Zen Optimized Version  Phoronix

Get Ready for Ubuntu MATE Experience on Debian Linux!  It's FOSS News

SteamOS and Steam Deck on top for Linux in the Steam Hardware Survey  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.0 arrives as Linus Torvalds promises 'core new things' ahead  ZDNet

Here’s How Steam Works on Chromebooks  How-To Geek

There's been a lot happening in Debian recently from improving their handling of non-free firmware to switching to PipeWire and WirePlumber with Debian 12. Another change on the way is picking up Ubuntu's work on dynamic triple buffering for the GNOME desktop...

Among the early pull requests sent in for the now-open Linux 6.1 merge window was the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates...

Proton Experimental updates fix up Indiana Jones, Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake)  GamingOnLinux

Mainlined back in 2017 was the statx() call for reporting enhanced file information and stats like finally reporting a file's creation time, data version numbers, and other attributes. Statx has continued evolving since its introduction in Linux 4.11 and now for Linux 6.1 is being expected to support reporting direct I/O alignment information...

Following yesterday's release of the upstream Linux 6.0 kernel, the GNU FSFLA folks have released GNU Linux-libre 6.0 as their downstream that removes driver support for loading binary firmware/microcode and the ability to load non-free-software kernel modules...