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Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several possible cache locations on the server with the TPH noting the optimal location of a Transaction Layer Packet (TLP). This PCIe TPH support is set to be merged upstream with the forthcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance  Phoronix

Linux creator supports removing Russian kernel maintainers  Dig Watch Updates

Russian Linux kernel maintainers blocked  ComputerWeekly.com

This Linux distribution doesn't require installation, and still remembers where you left off  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’  Tom's Hardware

Raspberry Pi OS Switches to Wayland on All Pi Models  How-To Geek

Mozilla Firefox 132.0 release builds are now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows for this newest monthly feature release to this open-source web browser...

The Trinity Desktop Environment as a still-maintained fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop software is out with a new point release...

Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience  Phoronix

While the sched_ext extensible scheduler code was merged for Linux 6.12, work on sched_ext itself it is not over. New patches this weekend continue working on NUMA awareness for it with its default idle selection policy while similar work on CPU last level cache (LLC) awareness are slated for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness  Phoronix

Developer Relations Foundation formed by Linux Foundation  App Developer Magazine

Another feature to look forward to with this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release is the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware now supporting Rusticl-based OpenCL compute...

Qualcomm Adreno Rusticl-Based OpenCL Merged For Mesa 24.3  Phoronix

Over the past year we have seen Raspberry Pi working a lot on Wayland support for the Raspberry Pi OS desktop and using it on their latest Raspberry Pi models. With today's new Raspberry Pi OS update, Wayland is being used by default across all Raspberry Pi devices...

While the Linux 6.12 kernel enables Intel Xe2 Battlemage discrete GPU support out-of-the-box as a sign of its maturing state, there are a number of patches for the open-source Battlemage driver support that are ongoing. One of the areas seeing some patches recently are around enhancing the display features with Battlemage's upgraded capabilities. Plus there's ongoing work around next-gen Xe3 graphics too...

Kali Linux Bids Adieu To 32-Bit Builds  It's FOSS News

No Russians in my Kernel! Geopolitics Reaches Linux Project  It's FOSS News

Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models  9to5Linux