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Linux Kernel 6.14 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

What a week. Last week Intel published a new AVX10 whitepaper where they dropped the optional 512-bit support of AVX10.2 and confirmed future P and E cores will have AVX10.2-512 support unconditionally. A very welcome change by Intel albeit late in rushing to get patches out to change that behavior ahead of the GCC 15 stable compiler release as well as working similar changes into the LLVM Clang compiler. As of today those GNU Compiler Collection patches have been merged to prepare for AVX10.2 always having 512-bit support available...

Among the early pull requests submitted in advance of the Linux 6.14 stable release and in turn the Linux 6.15 merge window opening were the x86 FPU updates. Notable this round are faster x86/x86_64 encryption/decryption performance for both Intel and AMD processors as well as beginning to land the kernel-side changes needed to support Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)...

Faster Intel/AMD Crypto Performance & Initial Intel APX Enablement Slated For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

The European Union has its own Linux Distribution and it's Called EU OS  It's FOSS News

deepin 25 Alpha is a sleek Linux distro from China with Linyaps packaging — but can it be trusted?  BetaNews

VanHelsingRaaS Emerges, Targeting Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi Systems  GBHackers

VanHelsingRaaS Emerges, Targeting Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi Systems  GBHackers

With the FreeDesktop.org GitLab infrastructure getting back up, Wayland Protocols 1.42 was released today as the newest version of this official set of protocols for Wayland compositors...

Linux 6.15 CRC Code Should See Big Speed-Ups For Intel/AMD AVX-512 CPUs  Phoronix

While we are still awaiting the Linux 6.14 release (or a 6.14-rc8 release) with no kernel drop having occurred on Sunday, early pull requests for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle continue flowing in. Among the early pull requests over the weekend were the CRC code updates that include some nice optimizations for those running on AVX-512 processors...

Libinput 1.28 debuted today by Red Hat's input expert Peter Hutterer. With this updated input handling library used by both Wayland and X.Org Server environments there is now support for three-finger drag on touchpads...

Raspberry Pi's brisk pace of new hardware and software the past few months continues today... The Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector was announced today at the $25 USD price point...

New VanHelsingRaaS Attacking Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi Systems  CybersecurityNews

Linux-Assistant is a Tool You Didn't Know You Needed!  It's FOSS News

10 Tricks You Can Do With FFmpeg on Linux  How-To Geek

The EROFS open-source, read-only Linux file-system is set to be extended with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle to support massive amounts of data to support AI model training...

EROFS Being Extended To Handle Massive Amounts Of Data For AI Model Training  Phoronix

Mercury Linux Neo refresh arrives with updated ISO and proves Windows 11 isn’t worth the hassle  BetaNews

Just days after marking the third birthday of the open-source project, Hyprland 0.48 released today as the newest version of this popular Wayland compositor...