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Merged today for the GCC 15 compiler in development and potentially for back-porting to the next GCC 14 point release is a second round of AMD Zen 5 "znver5" tuning...

Now that Linux 6.12 will enable Intel Battlemage and Lunar Lake graphics by default for the out-of-the-box kernel graphics driver support, the user-space Intel Mesa drivers with Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan are moving ahead to enable their support out-of-the-box too. This has been merged for Mesa 24.3-devel to have Battlemage discrete GPUs enjoying OpenGL and Vulkan support while it's also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 24.2 stable series...

Intel Battlemage OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Support Enabled By Default For Linux  Phoronix

Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands  The Register

Samba 4.21 is out as the newest version of this SMB networking protocol implementation commonly used on Linux systems for file and print services interaction with Windows systems...

Linux Gaining Ground in Automotive  EE Times Europe

New Rust-Based Ransomware Cicada3301 Targets Windows and Linux Systems  The Hacker News

How to run a Windows app on Linux with Wine  ZDNet

How (And Why) to Change the Default Terminal on Ubuntu  How-To Geek

Posted today as a "request for comments" by longtime Linux developer Josh Poimboeuf of Red Hat is klp-build. The klp-build proposal is a new means of building livepatch modules for live-patching the Linux kernel to address bugs and security issues with the running kernel image...

Is Black Ops 6 Steam Deck compatible?  PCGamesN

5 Things to Consider Before Picking Your First Linux Distro  How-To Geek

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today allow for inline tail support within the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS). This inline tail support allows for saving space when storing many small files and with reduced I/O can lead to faster data copy times...

F2FS Inline Tail Allows For Saving Space On Small Files & Reducing I/O  Phoronix

Ubuntu Patches Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities for AWS  The Cyber Express

Power Profiles Daemon as the UPower project to make Linux laptop/system power profile handling via D-Bus is out with a new release. This is the Linux/open-source solution for exposing of power profiles to the Linux desktop and better managing the system state between power-saver / balanced / performance modes and other options...

Power Profiles Daemon 0.22 Released With Several AMD Improvements  Phoronix

Coreboot 24.08 debuted on Monday night as the newest feature release for this open-source system firmware project that allows replacing the proprietary BIOS/firmware on many different platforms. With Coreboot 24.08 comes more than 900 patches from 130+ developers in continuing to support new motherboards and making other improvements...

While two years ago Google notably axed support for JPEG-XL within the Chrome web browser, they remain bullish on WebP and AVIF for imaging needs. This past week they finally announced Google Search is now supporting AVIF images...

Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now  GamingOnLinux