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System76's new COSMIC Linux desktop is out of this world  ZDNet

It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support. But this week brought the long-awaited third iteration of the patches that aim to eliminate cursor stutters from the Mutter compositor's KMS thread...

PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: Star Lab’s Titanium for KVM secures KVM hypervisors  Military Embedded Systems

Microsoft has already rolled back the kernel in WSL2 while issues are debugged  Windows Central

ChimeraOS 46-2 brings full ASUS ROG Ally X support  GamingOnLinux

As a follow up to the article from a few weeks ago of Intel publishing the AVX10.2 specifications and posting GCC compiler patches for that next iteration of AVX10, the initial support was merged today into the GNU Compiler Collection...

The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess. In any event it appears that the updated XZ code for the Linux kernel is now on track for mainlining come Linux 6.12...

Wow! Ubuntu Will Include The Latest Linux Kernel Version in Future Releases  It's FOSS News

Colors within the GTK toolkit have been represented to date using sRGB but developers have been working on supporting other color spaces like Display-P3 and BT.2100-PQ as they work to better support High Dynamic Range (HDR) displays on the Linux desktop...

GTK Making Progress On HDR & Supporting More Color Spaces  Phoronix

Mastering AWK: The Ultimate Guide to Text Processing in Linux | by The Great Saga | Aug, 2024  Medium

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 11th, 2024  9to5Linux

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The Awk command series is getting exciting! I believe that, in the previous seven parts, we walked through some fundamentals

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Future Ubuntu Releases Will Ship with the Latest and Greatest Linux Kernel  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.11-rc3 a few minutes ago as the latest weekly release candidate...

Linux 6.11-rc3 Released - Boosts Intel EMR Performance, Fixes 32-bit PTI For Meltdown  Phoronix

Intel Raptor Lake 0x129 CPU Microcode Performance Impact On Linux  Phoronix

Motherboard vendors have begun releasing updated BIOS versions for Intel Core 13th/14th Gen motherboards that offer the new "0x129" CPU microcode that is intended to address the Raptor Lake stability issues that have been causing instability problems and crashing errors for a growing number of Intel Core 13th/14th Gen processors. Intel reported in their (Windows) testing that the 0x129 CPU microcode should offer negligible performance impact but I was curious to run my benchmarks under Linux of this new CPU microcode.