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Linux-Tech&More Weekly Roundup (October 22, 2023): Ubuntu ...  LXer

News | Cohesity to Adopt Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Pipeline ...  Pipeline Magazine

Firefox 120 to Finally Let Ubuntu Users Import Chromium Browser Data in Firefox Snap  9to5Linux

XWayland's Rootful Mode Is Becoming More Useful  Phoronix

Most Linux desktop users/gamers/enthusiasts are relying on XWayland for X11 client compatibility atop Wayland compositors in the "rootless" mode. With the XWayland rootless mode, X11 applications and games can integrate nicely within a Wayland desktop environment with just the individual client window presented. However, for those interested, the XWayland "rootful" mode has become more capable this year for those wanting to render an entire X11 environment within the Wayland compositor as a window...

Since AMD's acquisition of Xilinx and working to broaden the portfolio of offerings for the data center, more AMD-Xilinx drivers have been working their way toward the mainline Linux kernel. There's been upstreaming efforts such as the Versal EDAC driver, generating DeviceTree nodes for PCI devices, Versal watchdog driver, QDMA driver, CDX bus support, and more. The latest driver working its way toward the mainline kernel from AMD is the AXI 1-wire driver...

AXI 1-Wire Driver Is AMD's Latest Upstreaming Effort To The Linux ...  Phoronix

GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt  The Register

Death of a Wish is an upcoming vicious action-RPG with wild visuals  GamingOnLinux

The VKMS driver as a virtual kernel mode-setting solution as a software-only implementation of KMS for use with primarily headless Linux systems continues tacking on more features. Maíra Canal and Melissa Wen presented last week at XDC 2023 on the VKMS driver that continues proving very useful for headless platforms as well as for testing purposes...

The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless ...  Phoronix

Linux Fu: Customizing Printf  Hackaday

KDE Plasma 5.27.9 Improves Plasma Wayland and Flatpak-Based GNOME Apps  9to5Linux

As yet another open-source Radeon Linux graphics driver change ahead of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 code branching and feature freeze is Vulkan VK_KHR_cooperative_matrix support with the RADV driver for RDNA3 hardware and newer using the GPU's Wavefront Mixed-precision Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) functionality...

RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Cooperative Matrix Support Using ...  Phoronix

SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2 granted Steam Deck Playable status  GamingOnLinux

How to Delete Timeshift Snapshots on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

As we approach the end of 2023, sadly, the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support still hasn't been mainlined... The main blocker pending is still the ongoing work around non-blocking consoles / threaded console handling to then allow the few dozen remaining out-of-tree RT kernel patches to be merged. The good news is that when the PREEMPT_RT support is ready for mainline, it looks like the RISC-V architecture support will also be real-time friendly too...

Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support ...  Phoronix

Cohesity and Red Hat Enter Strategic Collaboration to Embed Red Hat Enterprise Linux into the Cohesity Data Cloud  Yahoo Finance