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Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More  Phoronix

Use Samba on Linux for Essential Home Network File Sharing: Here's How  MSN

AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems  Phoronix

The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming "really really big" that it's beginning to cause issues for Plymouth that commonly provides the initial boot splash screen experience on modern Linux desktops...

Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes  Phoronix

Yet another early pull request for the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window is the sound (audio) driver updates for this next kernel cycle. There is a lot of sound driver work this cycle from new audio bits to removing legacy Intel driver support...

Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window...

With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some of the Snapdragon X1 hardware with Ubuntu Linux...

New Linux Malware Exploiting Oracle Weblogic Servers  CybersecurityNews

8 Of The Best MMORPGs To Play On Linux (Via Steam)  MMOBomb

Linux 6.12 To Support Arm's Permission Overlay Extension  Phoronix

Linux 6.12 EDAC Prepares For Address Translation On Future AMD Platforms  Phoronix

The Linux 6.11 kernel is expected to be christened as stable tomorrow. Ahead of that stable release one of the last minute "fixes" is adding in another ID for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors...

Linux 6.11 Adds Last Minute Addition For Intel Arrow Lake  Phoronix

As a very last minute change ahead of tagging GNOME Mutter 47, merged this morning to Mutter is support for the XDG session management Wayland protocol. This protocol is useful for letting clients request support from the compositor for saving the window state for use on future executions. However, it's currently disabled by default and won't be entirely baked until GNOME 48...

Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream — perps remain unidentified  Tom's Hardware

Use Samba on Linux for Essential Home Network File Sharing: Here's How  How-To Geek

Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust...

Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON console work that is notable as the last major blocker before real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can be finally mainlined...