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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 9th, 2024  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.10-rc3 as a rather pleasant week for this stage of the kernel cycle...

Linux 6.10-rc3 Released For A Boring But Good Week  Phoronix

CachyOS June 2024 release makes it easy to say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Linux  BetaNews

Arch Linux-Based CachyOS Adds Handheld Edition and T2 MacBook Support  9to5Linux

Arch Linux derivative CachyOS that is optimized for a nice desktop experience and shipping a nice set of performance optimizations/tuning by default is out with its June 2024 refresh...

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Now Defaults To Btrfs Rather Than XFS  Phoronix

Looks like GPU switching tool optimus-manager isn't abandoned yet  GamingOnLinux

Linux Skills: Manage System Services  The New Stack

Kaspersky releases free malware scanner for Linux  ZAWYA

In addition to debuting their "Peano" LLVM compiler back-end for Ryzen AI NPUs on Friday, AMD also submitted a new batch of feature code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver of new feature code aiming for the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window...

AMD's Linux Kernel Compute Driver For ROCm Begins Preparing For RDNA4 GPUs  Phoronix

Intel's IGB and IXGBE network drivers within the mainline Linux kernel are being adapted to support firmware updates for the underlying driver. To date such functionality was limited to Intel's out-of-tree versions of these drivers for their higher-end network hardware...

Intel In-Tree Linux Network Drivers Being Adapted To Support Firmware Updates  Phoronix

Mold 2.32 is out as the newest feature release for this high speed code linker that rivals LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Week in review: Atlassian Confluence RCE PoC, new Kali Linux, Patch Tuesday forecast  Help Net Security

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite prototype that runs Linux emerges from a brand you've probably never heard of ...  TechRadar

Your Default Linux Terminal Emulator Is Dull, So Take These Alternatives for a Spin  How-To Geek

There was a very exciting Friday evening code drop out of AMD... They announced a new project called Peano that serves as an open-source LLVM compiler back-end for AMD/Xilinx AI engine processors with a particular focus on the Ryzen AI SOCs with existing Phoenix and Hawk Point hardware as well as the upcoming XDNA2 found with the forthcoming Ryzen AI 300 series...

GNOME developers continue to be quite busy this summer from enhancing their desktop with more security and accessibility features to further crafting GNOME OS...