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Linux Foundation targets AI’s cost-management problem with Tokenomics Foundation  cio.com

An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?..

Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed  Phoronix

As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot...

Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot  Phoronix

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VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances  The Hacker News

In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...

BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Linux Foundation: AI Is Boosting Tech Hiring in Europe  YourStory.com

Linux Mint was throttling my modern hardware by default — 3 changes fixed it completely  MakeUseOf

AI actually boosts demand for tech talent, says Linux Foundation  Techzine Global

Firefox 153 Lands Vulkan Video Decode Support, Big Win for Linux NVIDIA Users  Linuxiac

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system  The Register

Linux kernel 7.1 is almost ready  Techzine Global

HandBrake 1.11.2 Improves Linux WebM Integration And Stability  Open Source For You

Armbian Imager 2.0 release supports over 300 boards from 64 SBC vendors, custom user profiles  CNX Software

New Linux Foundation Report Finds AI is Driving Positive Tech Hiring Trends in Europe Amid Growing Security and Skills Gaps  Linux Foundation

Meet Melia: A Privacy-First, Modern Desktop Email Client Made Just for Linux  It's FOSS

New Linux Foundation Report Finds AI is Driving Positive Tech Hiring Trends in Europe Amid Growing Security and Skills Gaps  PR Newswire