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Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7  Phoronix

The first week of the Linux 6.7 merge window began with the surprise of the Bcachefs file-system being merged and now capping off the first week is another surprise... Nouveau GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware integration that allows making use of NVIDIA's binary GSP firmware on RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs for having improved support. In turn this GSP route also provides initial support for GeForce RTX 40 series support...

Linux 6.7 Introduces "make hardening.config" To Help Build A ...  Phoronix

The hardening updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel bring a new hardening configuration profile to help in building a security hardened kernel with some sane defaults...

The Linux kernel's subsystem for Compute Express Link that is playing a vital role in servers moving forward continues picking up new features and evolving the code-base as more CXL hardware enters the world...

As part of the effort to make GNOME Terminal and the VTE terminal emulator library render faster, the GNOME Terminal has been seeing more work lately in being ported over to using the GTK 4 toolkit. Additionally, the VTE terminal library has been working to overcome its long-standing 40 FPS rendering cap...

GNOME Terminal Working To Migrate To GTK 4, VTE To Overcome ...  Phoronix

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues to be improved upon in the mainline Linux kernel and with the ongoing v6.7 merge window has received some additional enhancements...

F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work  Phoronix

Papirus Icon Pack for Linux Gets Fresh Update  OMG! Ubuntu!

When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked ...  Slashdot

How to Run a Program Periodically Using the Watch Command on ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Blosc (c-blosc2) is a high performance compressor focused on binary data for efficient storage of large binary data-sets in-memory or on-disk and helping to speed-up memory-bound computations...

Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster ...  Phoronix

Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn't quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round...

Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change  Phoronix

Start Developing with Rocky Linux as a Docker Container  The New Stack

Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL implementation "Rusticl" has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability...

Mesa's Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL ...  Phoronix

Linux permissions guide: Everything you need to know  XDA Developers