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Like with last week's Linux 6.11-rc5 release, Linux 6.11-rc6 is out a half-day early due to Linus Torvalds' ongoing foreign travels. Linux 6.11-rc6 brings many more fixes to this kernel that will debut as stable in mid-September,..

Linux 6.11-rc6 Released With More Bcachefs Fixes & Other Kernel Fixes  Phoronix

August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me as well as another 20 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles...

Arm engineer Mihail Atanassov proposed a set of "request for comments" patches this week for adding user submission support to the Panthor DRM driver that is used for handling newer Arm Mali graphics under Linux. This would allow user-space more easily to submit work directly to the GPU hardware without kernel intervention for better performance and management capabilities...

Panthor DRM Driver For Arm Mali Graphics Working On User Submission Handling  Phoronix

Intel has released a new version of their open-source Video Processing Library (VPL) for hardware-accelerated video encode / decode / processing across Intel graphics hardware...

FreeBSD 13.4 is due out in just over one week's time while this weekend brought FreeBSD 13.4-RC2 as the last planned test candidate...

Forget Proton: These 10 Awesome Games Run Natively on Linux  How-To Geek

Debian 12.7 is out today as the latest stable release update for the Debian Bookworm series...

Debian 12.7 “Bookworm” Released with 55 Security Updates and 51 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

You May Not Want to Switch to Linux for These Reasons  Yahoo! Voices

You May Not Want to Switch to Linux for These Reasons  How-To Geek

System76 Darter Pro Linux laptop review  TechRadar

Top Linux Distros for Beginners  GeekSided

The Rust-based, open-source Servo web engine had a very eventful month as the developers involved continue advancing this browser engine as well as their example/reference web browser...

AMD Preferred Core Fix Lands Ahead Of Linux 6.11-rc6  Phoronix

This week's batch of power management fixes for the Linux 6.11 kernel are just a set of three patches for AMD processors...

Why I've Gone All In on Fedora Silverblue  How-To Geek

I've tested dozens of operating systems. Fedora 40 beta is the fastest I've tried  ZDNet

A new AVX2 code path for FFmpeg's VVC decoding "vvcdec" is helping provide significant speed-ups for CPU-based H.266 decoding...