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A Linux patch has been posted for delivering a quirk so that the Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset can properly behave under Linux and in turn also jives with the likes of SteamVR...

Linux Patch Posted For The Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset  Phoronix

Alongside all of the other pull requests by Ingo Molnar submitted at the start of the week during the opening of the Linux 6.10 merge window were the scheduler updates. As usual, the kernel scheduler work continues to see various tweaks and refinements to enhance its behavior...

Linux's Turbostat utility that is developed by Intel for reporting idle/power state statistics, temperatures, and other useful data on modern Intel/AMD processors has seen its changes submitted for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

Turbostat Gains New Features & New Hardware Support With Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Kernels shipped by Linux vendors 'less secure than upstream stable offering'  iTWire

Tenable finds old Linux malware now targeting Tomcat servers  iTWire

MX-23.3 'Libretto' Released: Setting New Linux Distro Standards  Fossbytes

Podcast #773 - AMD Ryzen 8000 F-Series CPUs, Linux on Snapdragon X Elite, VMWare Goes Free, Zero Day for ...  PC Perspective

SUSE/openSUSE has been busy crafting a next-gen Linux installer that is a web-based installer and originally known as D-Installer but now going by the name Agama...

SUSE's YaST Team Drops Cockpit With New Installer Code  Phoronix

Linux distros ban 'tainted' AI-generated code — NetBSD and Gentoo lead the charge on forbidding AI-written code  Tom's Hardware

This Linux App Helps Me Easily Manage My Everyday Tasks  It's FOSS News

The Linux Network File System (NFS) server code (NFSD) is seeing a new Netlink protocol introduced in Linux 6.10 as part of laying the groundwork for the new "nfsdctl" utility...

Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM and heavy on the animations/effects. Out this morning is Niri 0.1.6 as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor...

How to get quick access to Gemini AI on Linux with this GNOME desktop extension  ZDNet

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues providing the resources for various new GNOME desktop development initiatives. There are various efforts underway for new features and refinements with GNOME 47 in September and a renewed emphasis around GNOME OS...

The performance events updates were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. This pull adds support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and other new Intel CPU instructions to the x86 instruction decoder...

Linux 6.10 x86 Instruction Decoder Prepares For APX & Other New Intel Instructions  Phoronix

While machine check exception (MCE) events tend to be uncommon, a change made by Intel engineers is accommodating the ability in the Linux kernel to store more machine check records for "when things go seriously wrong" on increasingly high core count servers...