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In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC -- initially just the "Crescent Island" AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version...

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu

NDSS 2025 – Too Subtle to Notice: Investigating Executable Stack Issues in Linux Systems  Security Boulevard

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those on Turing and newer with the NVIDIA 590 driver will enjoy the open-source kernel modules by default being used...

Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules  Phoronix

You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly  Tom's Hardware

The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience...

Using Linux made me a better Windows user, here's how  How-To Geek

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop  Phoronix

Over Half A Million Windows Users Are Switching To Linux - Here's Why  bgr.com

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit  GamingOnLinux

Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit  GamingOnLinux

The new Kali Linux, another Raspberry Pi imager, Ubuntu Studio's redesign, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu's monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google's Gemini AI also generated some sloppy code for a Python script to assist in those Ubuntu releases...

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...

Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux...

There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas...

For helping with the I/O performance in virtualized environments, merged this week to the DragonFlyBSD development code is multi-queue support for its VirtIO block "virtio_blk" driver...

Floppy Linux  Hackaday