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Linux 6.9 Adds Support For Snakebyte Gamepads  Phoronix

The input subsystem updates were merged on Sunday for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel merge window, among various other input changes is adding support for Snakebyte GAMEPADs to the XPad driver...

LibreELEC as the Linux distribution that aims to be just enough of an operating system for bringing up Kodi for HTPC / multimedia needs, the LibreELEC 12 "Omega" Beta 1 release is available today for further improving this media center focused Linux OS...

How to Install Discord on Ubuntu & Linux Mint  OMG! Ubuntu!

All of the x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.9 merge window. As usual, most of the x86 platform driver work is around better supporting various Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops under Linux...

'What if the operating system is the problem': Linux was never created for the cloud — so engineers developed DBOS ...  Yahoo! Voices

'What if the operating system is the problem': Linux was never created for the cloud — so engineers developed DBOS ...  TechRadar

Intel continues leading the development of the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem for the Linux kernel while at least for the Linux 6.9 cycle are a few feature patch contributions from AMD...

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.8 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.8 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Joining the other file-systems seeing notable updates for Linux 6.9, the XFS file-system is seeing continued work around online repair support and other improvements...

XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements  Phoronix

The Hyprland customizable Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling is celebrating its two year milestone by issuing v0.37 (and a v0.37.1 paper bag release)...

The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Among the changes are the usual code churn around device-specific quirks and tuning of the power management code...

Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support  Phoronix

Week in review: Cybersecurity job openings, hackers use 1-day flaws to drop custom Linux malware  Help Net Security

Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0...

While the GNOME 46 desktop is being released next week, one of the very last minute feature items being merged hit the Mutter codebase on Friday...

Mold 2.30 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source high speed linker alternative to GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD...

Steam Play receives Nvidia Reflex through VKD3D-Proton update on Linux  Notebookcheck.net