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Following last week's Linux 6.8 power management updates, Linux PM/ACPI subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel sent out a secondary set of changes this morning. Most notable with this second round of power management material is allowing Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors to clock higher with the P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Will Be Able To Clock Higher On Linux 6.8  Phoronix

winesapOS, the portable SteamOS-like Linux distro gets improved hardware support  GamingOnLinux

How to Fix "apt-get: command not found" in the Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

Merged last week for the Linux 6.8 kernel were the platform driver x86 updates, which include a lot of new AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platform support and new laptop functionality...

New AMD & Intel Laptop/Platform Support In Linux 6.8  Phoronix

XOrg Server and Xwayland Patched Against Multiple Security Vulnerabilities  9to5Linux

How to Format a Disk on Ubuntu (in 2 Ways)  How-To Geek

Asahi Linux Makes Significant Strides: HDMI Support for Apple Silicon, OpenGL Implementation, and More  BNN Breaking

Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon  The Register

IO_uring creator and Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe spent about five minutes working on two patches to implement caching for issue-side time querying in the block layer and can yield 6% or more better I/O performance...

~5 Minutes Of Coding Yields A 6%+ Boost To Linux I/O Performance  Phoronix

A Canonical engineer has been experimenting with implementing a Linux scheduler within the Rust programming language. His early results are interesting and hopeful around the potential of a Rust-based scheduler that works via sched_ext for implementing a scheduler using eBPF that can be loaded during run-time...

Rust-Written Linux Scheduler Showing Promising Results For Gaming Performance  Phoronix

Merged back at the start of the Linux 6.8 merge window were the VFS mount API updates that introduce two new system calls: statmount() and listmount() for reading more detailed information about file-system mounts...

Linux Mint 21.3 is here. And this is why it's outstanding  ZDNet

It was in 2013 a security researcher called the X.Org Server security state "worse than it looks" and quite a disaster from the security/bug perspective for the aging codebase. A decade later there's still no shortage of security vulnerabilities being uncovered within the X.Org Server...

How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Penetration Testing Tool Like Kali Linux?  Appinventiv

Intel Arc GPUs Can't Run The Finals On Linux But Concealing GPU Vendor Does The Job  Wccftech

Intel Arc GPUs Can’t Run The Finals On Linux But Concealing GPU Vendor Does The Job  Wccftech