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Navigating the Linux Textscape using Vim and Emacs  Linux Journal

Mesa 24.0 Gets Asahi AGX Gallium3D To OpenGL 3.3 For Apple ...  Phoronix

A set of 53 patches were upstreamed on Monday for syncing Mesa 24.0-devel against the latest Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver changes carried by Asahi Linux. This in turn is a big push for getting more of the open-source OpenGL functionality into Mesa for enjoying Linux on Apple M1 and M2 hardware...

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Linux, the open-source operating system, has a rich and fascinating history. While many are familiar with its core principles and widespread use, there are lesser-known

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Last week's locking set of changes for the Linux 6.7 kernel add new interfaces for the FUTEX2 system call ABI. This work is making FUTEX2 more extendable and addressing some of the prior limitations...

More FUTEX2 Bits Land In The Linux 6.7 Kernel  Phoronix

Impression Image Writer Adds In-App Distro Downloads  OMG! Ubuntu!

Back at the OCP Summit in Prague earlier this year AMD detailed openSIL for advancing open-source system firmware by opening up the CPU siliccon initialization process. An update was provided at the OCP San Jose event in October around the AMD OpenSIL effort...

Open-Source AMD OpenSIL Continues Making Progress To ...  Phoronix

Intel Itanium Support Being Dropped in Linux  Thurrott.com

Impression Updated  OMG! Ubuntu!

Hackers exploit Looney Tunables Linux bug, steal cloud creds  BleepingComputer

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 34: Abusing the System  GamingOnLinux

ITAI Operating System Market with Tremendous growth by 2030 ...  Argyle Report

Going back to early last year saw AMD Linux engineers posting PerfMonV2 patches in preparation for Zen 4 processors. The PerfMonV2 updated performance monitoring capabilities with Zen 4 were merged last year and are supported with the latest EPYC 8004/9004 series processors. Coming only now though to Linux 6.7 is support for Unified Memory Controller (UMC) events as part of PerfMonV2...

Linux 6.7 Perf Adds Support For Zen 4 Unified Memory Controller Events  Phoronix

Pick up some cheap Steam Deck games in the Humble Handheld ...  GamingOnLinux

5 best Linux distributions in 2023  XDA Developers

While the next revision of the C standard won't see its formal publishing until the 2024 calendar year, the ISO C standards committee already decided on keeping "C23" as the informal name for this next major C update. As such, with today's GCC 14 Git the -std=c23 compiler option for targeting C23 is now honored along with -std=gnu23 for the GNU dialect of C23...

GCC 14 Now Honors The -std=c23 & -std=gnu23 Compiler Options ...  Phoronix