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Intel Sends Out Initial Compiler Patches For Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake  Phoronix

Intel's Linux software engineers understand the annual GCC compiler release cadence well and acknowledge the importance of having tuned compiler support available at launch. Intel for years has tended to get their new CPU support and new ISA features upstreamed into GCC as well as LLVM/Clang well ahead of product launch so that by the time their new consumer and server CPUs are shipping, there tends to be support within compilers just not at their stable versions but already found in the likes of Ubuntu. With that said, today Intel engineers posted initial compiler patches for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors...

Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux  The Register

While less than one week has passed since the Linux 6.5 merge window ended and 6.5-rc1 being issued, there is already the first set of drm-misc-next changes submitted to DRM-Next of early open-source graphics/display driver changes geared for Linux 6.6 later this year...

Open-Source Graphics Driver Updates Begin Queuing For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

Mesa 23.2 feature development is now over with the code having been branched and the first release candidate tagged for what will be this quarter's stable release series...

Install Windows Server in VirtualBox on Linux  AddictiveTips

Intel this morning released their open-source Compute Runtime 23.22.26516.18 as their newest monthly update to this open-source compute stack used on Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero usage...

Visual Studio Code stabilizes Remote Tunnels to WSL  InfoWorld

Embedded Linux Market Global Industry Share, Size, Revenue ...  Digital Journal

Linux has over 3% of the desktop market? It's more complicated than ...  ZDNet

Wayland may soon overtake X11 in Linux GUIs  The Register

Linux hits highest market share in decades, with 3% of desktops ...  TweakTown

Linux distributors, open source developers warned to update Ghostscript  Channel Daily News

Linux distributors, open source developers warned to update Ghostscript  IT World Canada

Last week we began seeing AMD engineers post Linux patches for "Family 26" (1Ah) CPU enablement that is more than likely for Zen 5 processors. This week the AMD "1Ah" work has carried forward with new patches having been merged into the Linux 6.5 kernel...

Linux 6.5 Adds In Some Next-Gen CPU Enablement For AMD PMF (Zen 5)  Phoronix

12 Incredibly Useful KDE Apps That Are Worth Trying  MUO - MakeUseOf

New PyLoose Linux malware mines crypto directly from memory  BleepingComputer

Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?  Ars Technica