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Linux engineer Christian Brauner at Microsoft sent out his various pull requests for areas of the kernel he oversees ahead of the Linux 6.11 merge window. One of the more interesting pull requests from Brauner this cycle are the "vfs procfs" updates that now allow restricting access to the /proc/[pid]/mem files of processes...

Linux 6.11 To Allow Tightening Of /proc/[pid]/mem Access For Better Security  Phoronix

While Fedora 41 isn't even out yet, early feature planning is already underway for Fedora 42 that will debut in the early months of 2025. One of the interesting proposals raised so far is for making use of the new DRM Panic screen functionality for a "Blue Screen of Death" of sorts for better presenting kernel error messages in case of kernel panics...

Fedora 42 Looks To Make Use Of The "Screen Of Death" DRM Panic Screen  Phoronix

Patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for getting various Lenovo devices supported by the mainline Linux kernel that rely on the Qualcomm MSM8916 and MSM8939 platforms...

New Patches To Get More Qualcomm Lenovo Devices Supported By The Mainline Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Linux 6.10 stable should be released later today. It's been a fairly calm week in the kernel world and thus Linus Torvalds will most likely opt for tagging v6.10 as opposed to doing a v6.10-rc8 extra release candidate. So with Linux 6.10 likely upon us, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting changes in this new kernel release...

The Most Interesting Linux 6.10 Features From MSEAL To Intel Xe2 Preparations  Phoronix

Linux: Understand sudo to Rule Your Server  The New Stack

Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.10 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Google makes Linux more secure  BetaNews

RPG Maker MV / MZ for Linux tool now supports TyranoBuilder, RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace  GamingOnLinux

OBS Studio 30.2 is out now with native NVENC encode for Linux, shared texture support  GamingOnLinux

GNOME 47 Linux desktop environment achieves Alpha status  BetaNews

I tried running Photoshop 2024 on Linux  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

The alpha release of GNOME 47 is now available for testing and comes with a number of shiny new features for this big open-source desktop update due out in September...

A patch posted for the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver finally allows for fan speed reporting with Arc Graphics and other Intel discrete graphics cards under Linux...

Patch Posted For Finally Reporting Intel Graphics Card Fan Speeds Under Linux  Phoronix

Linux: Synchronize Local and Remote Directories With Rsync  The New Stack