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Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative to the MoltenVK project. KosmicKrisp was upstreamed for Mesa 26.0 and continues making great progress for opening up more Vulkan possibilities in Apple's world...

The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release...

The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver addition is the "pwrseq-pcie-m2" to provide power sequencing for PCIe M.2 connectors...

Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset — driver removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset  Tom's Hardware

Linux 7.0 is adding mainline kernel support for, uh, Rock Band 4 guitars  XDA

Ezurio Carbon AM62 Targets Industrial Linux with TI Sitara AM62x  LinuxGizmos.com

Tiny Core Linux 17.0 updates kernel and toolchain while remaining radically minimalistic  igor´sLAB

Linux Mint 23 moves user management to System Administration tool  OMG! Ubuntu

The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase...

Hackers resurrect the 90s IRC tricks with SSHStalker  TechRadar

Vim 9.2 is out today as the newest feature release for this robust and comprehensive text editor. This Valentine's Day release for Vim lovers brings experimental Wayland support, XDG Base Directory specification support, modernized defaults for HiDPI displays, new completion features, and an improved diff mode...

Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More  9to5Linux

Fedora made me realize Windows was the problem with my workflow  XDA

REMnux 8 Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary  9to5Linux

The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were supporting more guitars while also adding more device IDs and different laptop quirks...

Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks  Phoronix

HackerOS is what a Linux enthusiast’s OS should be  The New Stack

5 powerful Python one-liners that will make you a better coder  How-To Geek