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Merged for Mesa 23.3 today is the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) to allow for the "PresentOptionAsyncMayTear" option that can be used to enable tearing under (X)Wayland if desiring peak performance at the cost of possible imperfect rendering...

openSUSE Slowroll Released As A Slower Alternative To ...  Phoronix

The openSUSE Slowroll distribution is a middle-ground between the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux distribution and the SUSE Linux Enterprise aligned openSUSE Leap with its fixed releases. The new openSUSE Slowroll is a rolling-release-like distribution with updates "every one or two months" but with constant bug/security fixes...

Ubuntu Linux Will Add TPM-Backed Full-Disk Encryption  How-To Geek

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Analysis Report 2023-2030 | 96 Pages Report  Benzinga

Tuxedo Aura Linux laptops now available with 12th-gen Intel Core chips and optional 4G LTE  Liliputing

MITRE ATT&CK in 2023: Focus on Mobile, Linux and ICS  MSSP Alert

MITRE ATT&CK in 2023: Focus on Mobile, Linux and ICS  MSSP Alert

Sub-NUMA Clustering with Intel Xeon processors allows for splitting up the CPU cores, cache, and memory into multiple NUMA domains for enhancing the performance of NUMA-aware applications. While SNC can help in a number of cases especially plenty of HPC and server workloads, currently it's not properly supported if making use of Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel CPUs. That is in the process of changing with new Linux kernel patches being worked on by Intel...

Intel Fixing Up Sub-NUMA Clustering For Linux So That It Behaves ...  Phoronix

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing  9to5Linux

TUXEDO Aura Linux Laptops Now Come with Wi-Fi 6E, LTE Modem, and TPM 2.0  9to5Linux

Two tricks that make using the Linux command line a lot easier  ZDNet

Two tricks that make using the Linux command line a lot easier  ZDNet

Linux 6.6's in-kernel SMB networking server graduates  The Register

I tested KDE Plasma 6 and found it very familiar. Here's why that's a good thing  ZDNet

KDE developer David Edmundson has written an interesting blog post looking at robustness improvements coming with Qt 6.6 via QtWayland compositor handoffs support...

Using the comm command to compare files or directories on Linux  Network World

VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance ...  Phoronix

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's stellar Linux graphics/Proton team has released VKD3D-Proton 2.10 as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop Vulkan that allows for modern Windows games to run on Linux atop Steam Play...