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Kernel 6.8 marked for end of life by Linux, with new upgrade ready to go  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Windows Subsystem for Linux finally gets its big memory update  XDA Developers

NetworkManager 1.48 Improves Detection of 6 GHz Band Capability for Wi-Fi Devices  9to5Linux

CISA Alert on Linux Kernel Flaw  Spiceworks News and Insights

The open-source Godot game engine has worked its way up to the Godot 4.3 Beta 1 milestone with some exciting achievements...

Godot 4.3 Beta 1 Released With Native Wayland Support  Phoronix

Jean-Baptiste Kempf released Dav1d 1.4.2 as the newest version of this speedy CPU-based AV1 video decoder. With this new dav1d 1.4.2 update are yet more performance optimizations for modern systems...

Intel engineer Noah Goldstein has landed another nice performance optimization in the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting newer Intel processors...

Switch from Microsoft Windows 11 to Nitrux Linux 3.5.0  BetaNews

Microsoft Announces 'Significant Updates' to Windows Subsystem for Linux  WebProNews

How to Open ePub Books in Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

CISA Warns of Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability  SecurityWeek

Systemd-Free and Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.5 Is Here with Mesa 24.1, NVIDIA 555  9to5Linux

Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c_touchscreen_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices...

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet sent in a batch of file-system fixes on Thursday for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel. In that pull request he teased features that are set to arrive with the Linux 6.11 kernel later in the summer...

More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+  Phoronix

Last month we began seeing AMDGPU driver firmware files published for the rumored "RDNA3+" hardware as an RDNA3 refresh (also as "RDNA 3.5") for upcoming APUs. More firmware files have now landed public in linux-firmware.git for these forthcoming RDNA3 refresh products...

If the recent release of Flowblade 2.16 video editor wasn't of interest to you due to being GTK-based software, the Qt/KDE-aligned Kdenlive video editor is out this week with its Kdenlive 24.05 feature release...

Microsoft Makes Windows Subsystem for Linux Easy With These Updates  It's FOSS News

Endless OS 6: How desktop Linux may look, one day  The Register