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While the Linux 6.7 release is being pushed back by one week due to the holidays and in turn the Linux 6.8 merge window not officially opening until 8 January, some pull requests do end up getting submitted early. The 1-wire bus driver changes for Linux 6.8 were sent out this week and most notably includes adding the AMD AXI 1-wire host driver...

AMD AXI 1-Wire Host Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.7 kernel there is now KVM virtualization support for LoongArch CPUs. With the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle, that KVM support is being further extended for these RISC-V-inspired and MIPS64-derived Chinese processors...

LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support  Phoronix

Enlightenment Desktop Sees New Stable Release  OMG! Ubuntu!

New upstream Linux kernel releases are typically issued on Sunday evenings (US time) but Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.7-rc7 a day early in preparations for Christmas Eve festivities...

Linux 6.7-rc7 Released Early Ahead Of Christmas Eve Festivities  Phoronix

Entry-level Linux Zorin OS 17 now available for download  Notebookcheck.net

It's been two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.25 and now just ahead of Christmas there is Enlightenment 0.26 released by Carsten Haitzler...

Best Linux VPN: Download for Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS & More | CyberGhost  CyberGhost VPN

Arch Linux vs. Fedora Linux: Which Should You Use?  How-To Geek

Firewalld: An Easier Way to Manage Linux Firewalls  The New Stack

Retornz ToneZ V2, free Synthesizer plugin for macOS, Linux, and Windows  Synth Anatomy

Xplorer: Not Just a Pretty Open-Source File Manager!  It's FOSS News

Following discussions with upstream developers, LLVM is changing its versioning as part of the branch creation process to better distinguish mainline development builds of LLVM against those from stable (or soon to be stable) release branches...

Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7  Phoronix

With a set of input driver patches set to be merged today for the Linux 6.7-rc6 kernel, the XPad driver is adding support for Razer's Wolverine V2 Xbox controller...

This week brought the second beta of KDE Plasma 6.0 along with KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks updates too. The holidays haven't resulted in KDE development slowing down too much with still a number of bug fixes being merged this week and other minor enhancements...

Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager...

For those still relying on GNU Autoconf for generating configure scripts for building/installing/packaging software rather than more modern alternatives like CMake and Meson, Autoconf 2.72 is out today as a nice holiday treat...