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The beta release of Plasma 6.1 is now available for testing over the US holiday weekend...

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released with Explicit Sync Support on Wayland  9to5Linux

The four month old KWin merge request by Xaver Hugl to allow for triple buffering has been merged and just in time for the Plasma 6.1 code branching!..

The System Shock remake will not be released on Linux and Mac computers, though funds have been raised to do so  gagadget.com

Why are people like you and me FLEEING Windows-11...for Linux Desktop? NOW!  ASEAN NOW

For those considering an Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" powered laptop, here are some benchmarks of the 165U using a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 compared against the Acer Swift 14 with the Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake), the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U (Zen 4) within the Framework 13, and the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (Zen 4) within the Framework 16 under Linux.

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" Linux Performance  Phoronix

USENIX Security ’23 – Mitigating Security Risks in Linux with KLAUS: A Method for Evaluating Patch ...  Security Boulevard

POCL as the "Portable Computing Language" OpenCL implementation that originally began as a CPU-based run-time and has expanded to support a variety of GPU and accelerator targets is out with its first release candidate of the upcoming PoCL 6.0...

Last week saw the main Btrfs pull request for Linux 6.10 that delivered on some performance optimizations while today saw a secondary set of merge window changes for this CoW file-system that is now adding back the "norecovery" mount option...

Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option  Phoronix

Rufus Update Can Create Persistent Ubuntu 24.04 USBs  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Device Mapper changes were merged last week into the Linux 6.10 kernel, including a new "high priority" option for DM-Crypt...

Mind-melting portal-platformer Ingression out with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Manjaro 24 is Arch Linux for the rest of us  The Register

Following the recent PipeWire 1.2 release candidate, a second release candidate is out today that also includes the ability to stream to Snapcast servers...

Alpine Linux Shows Signs of RISC-V Architecture Support  It's FOSS News

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem changes for the Linux 6.10 kernel include enabling monitoring of more all-in-one liquid coolers for CPUs, a new driver for exposing monitoring on Lenovo ThinkStation workstations, and other new monitoring capabilities...

Linux 6.10 Hardware Monitoring Includes New Lenovo ThinkStation Driver  Phoronix

The Framework 13 and Framework 16 AMD Ryzen powered laptops make use of an NPCX embedded controller that rely on the ChromeOS open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware. With the Linux 6.10 kernel the Chrome OS "cros_ec_lpc" driver is being extended to support these latest Framework upgradeable laptops...