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There's been a number of patches quietly landing for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by AMD engineers in making various clean-ups and appearing to prepare for future adjustments to the driver in eventually extending the support beyond the current RDNA3 "GFX11" graphics hardware...

AMD Cleaning Up RadeonSI Linux Driver Code Ahead Of Next-Gen ...  Phoronix

The Multi-Function Device (MFD) updates were sent out last week for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel for these drivers catering to heterogeneous hardware blocks...

Intel Lunar Lake M Added To LPSS Driver In Linux 6.7  Phoronix

Microsoft Plans To Bring Its AI Copilot To 1 Billion Windows 10 Users  Slashdot

Humble Choice for November has Prodeus, Hardspace ...  GamingOnLinux

KDE Releases Alpha Versions of Plasma 6, Frameworks 6, and Gear 24.02  9to5Linux

Today marks the on-time alpha release of the "KDE 6th Megarelease" -- this encompasses the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop, KDE Frameworks 6 libraries, and KDE Gear applications...

Reliving The Authentic 90s Linux Experience  Hackaday

Microsoft engineers continue working on the Mesa drivers as part of their effort for implementing various industry standard APIs atop Direct3D 12. This support can be used in cases of Windows drivers lacking for these APIs as well as being used within WSL for the graphics support while relying on D3D12 with the host environment...

Microsoft Gets OpenGL 4.3 Implemented Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa  Phoronix

The staging changes for Linux 6.7 are on the heavier side in part due to many new contributors from Outreachy mailing in their first kernel patches with various minor fixes. But staging is also lightened up a bit by dropping a wired Ethernet and wireless driver as part of the ongoing kernel effort to remove unused and old WiFi drivers...

Linux 6.7 Staging Drops The QLGE Ethernet & rtl8192u WiFi Drivers  Phoronix

Red Hat Launches Next Versions of the World’s Leading Enterprise Linux Platform  Yahoo Finance

With Linux 6.7 the EROFS read-only file-system intended primarily for mobile devices and containers is considering their MicroLZMA compression support as stable...

EROFS No Longer Treating MicroLZMA Compression As Experimental  Phoronix

Google-led App Defense Alliance joins Linux Foundation, with Meta and Microsoft joining too  TechCrunch

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Out Now with OTA Support for PinePhone and PineTab Devices  9to5Linux

Microsoft yesterday published CBL-Mariner 2.0.20231106 as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of services from Azure to WSL...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distro Issues A Big Update For ...  Phoronix