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Linux Kernel 6.7 Officially Released — And It’s a Big One!  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux 6.7 Kernel Released  OMG! Ubuntu!

How To: Updating VARA Network Node Binaries on Linux  Medium

Linux Kernel 6.7 Release: New Features and Enhancements  BNN Breaking

Linux Kernel 6.7 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

As anticipated Linus Torvalds went ahead and just released the Linux 6.7 kernel as the first new version of 2024...

Linux 6.7 Released With Bcachefs, Intel Meteor Lake In Good Shape & Nouveau GSP Support  Phoronix

In recent days there have been leaks about an MSI "CLAW" gaming handheld device set to be announced this coming week at CES in Las Vegas. Making this gaming handheld device interesting is that unlike the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally or Legion Go, it's expected to be the first handheld featuring an Intel Meteor Lake SoC. In particular, the recently launched Intel Core Ultra 7 155H. For those curious about what the performance is likely to roughly be in comparison to the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these competing SoCs.

Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs  Phoronix

Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here's an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle...

Debuting in late 2022 was memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used open-source RAM tester. Coming out today is memtest86+ 7.0 as the latest major update to this leading PC memory testing solution...

OpenBLAS 0.3.26 was released this week as the newest feature update to this open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...

GNOME 46 to Introduce Headless Remote Logins via GNOME Display Manager  9to5Linux

Microsoft's Windows Faces a New Threat From an Old Enemy  Yahoo Finance

Microsoft's Windows Faces a New Threat From an Old Enemy  The Motley Fool

New tool for SteamCMD allows you to archive your Steam library or play old versions of games, but only on Linux  Tom's Hardware

The Linux 6.7 kernel is expected to be released as stable later today following the one week delay due to the end-of-year holidays. Here's a reminder about some of the best features in Linux 6.7...

Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape  Phoronix

Landing in Mesa 24.0-devel this week alongside other exciting changes is some pending work for enhancing VKD3D-Proton and AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3) support for the RADV Vulkan driver...

In preparing for the GNOME 46 Alpha release, this morning the "46.alpha" builds of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published...