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One of the patch series that sadly was not ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window and thus will need to wait a few months for at least the next kernel is enabling AMD Fast CPPC support for Zen 4 processors. Fast CPPC aims to allow the processor to deliver higher performance at the same power consumption...

Updated Patches For AMD "Fast CPPC" To Yield Higher Performance At Same Power Level  Phoronix

Merged for Linux 6.10 is DRM_Panic as a kernel panic screen for situations akin to Windows' well known "Blue Screen of Death". This is a kernel-based panic screen as an alternative to systemd's recent systemd-bsod. Patches have been posted by Red Hat for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Direct Rendering Manager driver to work with DRM Panic...

While not as exciting as XFS expanding its online repair support, Bcachefs prepping for online fsck, Btrfs seeing some performance work, or F2FS improving zoned storage support, the modern NTFS driver "NTFS3" saw a set of fixes land for the Linux 6.10 kernel...

Decibels is a Minimal Audio Player, And That's About it!  It's FOSS News

Choosing the Right Linux Distro - Photo Albums, Images, and Videos  BleepingComputer

ChatGPT Helped Me Get Better at Using Linux, Here's How  How-To Geek

Linux 6.10 Improves AMD ROCm Compute Support For "Small" Ryzen APUs  Phoronix

Sneaking in as a "fix" for the Linux 6.10 kernel is an enhancement to the AMDKFD kernel compute driver used by the ROCm compute stack for better supporting small Ryzen APUs like client and embedded SoCs...

A few days ago with the main RISC-V architecture pull for Linux 6.10 was enabling Rust support within the kernel for this ISA as well as other additions. A secondary set of RISC-V changes have been merged as well ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window closing this weekend...

Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression  Phoronix

I'm Waiting to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 for a Few Important Reasons  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Mozilla Ocho group has published their newest version of Llamafile, the open-source project that makes it very easy to distribute and run large language models (LLMs) as a single file. Llamafile is an excellent solution for easily sharing and running LLMs and supporting both speedy CPU-based execution as well as GPU acceleration where available...

This Week In GNOME is out with their newest edition to outline all of the interesting developments as we approach the end of May...

Intel software engineers did a late Friday night release of the Intel NPU Acceleration Library v1.1, their Python library for tapping into the Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found on the new Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors. This Python library makes it easier to interface with the Intel VPU/NPU kernel driver and in turn enjoying accelerated operations for AI...

It was a busy week for KDE developers ahead of yesterday's Plasma 6.1 Beta release. KDE developer Nate Graham in his weekly development summary outlined all of the interesting changes to make it into the Plasma 6.1 desktop ahead of the feature freeze that went into effect with the beta release...

Cybercriminals double exploitation of Linux vulnerabilities  CIO News

Merged this Friday evening into the Linux 6.10 kernel is the new mseal() system call for memory sealing...

Memory Sealing "mseal" System Call Merged For Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Famed open-source AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has landed 13 more patches in Mesa 24.2-devel to provide fixes for GFX12 (RDNA4) graphics IP while also adding more GFX11 (RDNA3) APUs...