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KDE developers had another busy week as more features were merged ahead of next month's Plasma 6.1 release...

Embracing the World of Linux: A Student's Journey and Experience  Medium

While we are all waiting for the NVIDIA R555 series Linux driver beta that is expected to debut as soon as next week based on prior information with Wayland improvements (explicit sync) and more, with the NVIDIA R560 series Linux driver successor is a very interesting change: NVIDIA is planning on defaulting to using their open-source GPU kernel driver by default for GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing" GPUs and newer...

NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs  Phoronix

Red Hat extends Lightspeed AI to Linux, OpenShift  InfoWorld

Proton Experimental brings controller support for more launchers  GamingOnLinux

GNOME 47 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for September 18th, 2024  9to5Linux

AMD last week sent out a set of patches to enhance the open-source FFmpeg multimedia library with integration around the AMD Advanced Media Framework (AMF). The AMF SDK allows for "optimal" access to AMD GPUs for multimedia processing but this patch series questioned the need in an era of Vulkan Video APIs beginning to see adoption...

System76 launches Darter Pro Linux Laptop with Intel Meteor Lake processor options  Liliputing

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 served on Apple Silicon  The Register

Linux backdoor threat is a wake-up call for IoT  Embedded

Collabora detail the improved updater for Steam Deck in SteamOS 3.6  GamingOnLinux

X Marks the What? How Linux Got Its Name  How-To Geek

Linux 6.10 is introducing support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM2) encryption and integrity protections to prevent active/passive interposers from compromising them. This follows a recent security demonstration of TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker being demonstrated. TPM sniffing attacks have also been demonstrated against Linux systems too, thus the additional protections be made with Linux 6.10 to better secure TPM2 modules...

While Intel can be praised for their dozens (or likely by now, hundreds) of open-source projects they maintain and countless other existing open-source software projects they actively contribute to and are covered by Phoronix on a near-daily basis, not everything there is open-source. Intel is a wonderful and leading open-source promoter but occasionally there are closed-source blobs or questionable moves such as today: Intel is taking their Hyperscan library development from BSD-licensed open-source software to now the Intel Proprietary License moving forward...

Rocky Linux 9.4 Released as Another Free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Distro  9to5Linux

SteamOS 3.6 Preview for Steam Deck brings numerous big new features  GamingOnLinux

Steam Deck update brings BIOS overclocking and improved graphics driver to SteamOS  Tom's Hardware

Barring any last minute reservations by Linus Torvalds, the Linux 6.9 kernel should be released as stable on Sunday. It's been a fairly quiet week so Linux 6.9 stable will likely happen as opposed to going through an extra week with a 6.9-rc8 candidate. With this spring 2024 kernel there are many great features and improvements, especially for modern Intel and AMD platforms...

Linux 6.9 Features Many Great Improvements For Both Intel & AMD  Phoronix