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Submitted and merged on Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window were the LoongArch processor changes for this new kernel version. Most singificant for these Chinese processors is now supporting the Rust Linux kernel integration...

LoongArch Lands Initial Rust Kernel Support For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

There's just over one month to go until the release of the KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with the new KDE Gear apps and KDE Frameworks 6. This week KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Gear applications have been branched...

Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window paused due to Linus Torvalds losing Internet connectivity and electricity. It lasted for the better part of the week but then managed to get back to work and now thankfully has been back online albeit with intermittent electrical issues following a brutal winter storm...

Linux 6.8-rc1 Should Release On Schedule Tomorrow  Phoronix

While SDL 3.0 remains under development as the next major release for this hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by games and other software for cross-platform handling, SDL 2.30 RC1 was released today as the newest of the SDL2 series...

SDL 2.30 Release Candidate Brings Many Fixes, New Additions For The Steam API  Phoronix

New tool lets you crash from Windows into Linux via a Blue Screen of Death  BetaNews

Huawei claims HarmonyOS NEXT kernel is 3x more efficient than Linux  Notebookcheck.net

With Mesa's Gallium3D architecture there are different state trackers like for VA-API and OpenGL that in turn run atop the different Gallium3D hardware drivers with an aim for common code re-use and making the most of capabilities for each of the drivers. With Mesa's Vulkan drivers there isn't quite that level of code sharing/re-use given Vulkan's low-level API approach, but now the idea is raised whether the Mesa Vulkan drivers may benefit from a more Gallium3D-like runtime...

I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex, and you can too  ZDNet

I revived three ancient computers with ChromeOS Flex, and you can too  ZDNet

Days after delivering a nice boost to Linux I/O performance, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has tackled another storage-related bottleneck within the kernel...

BPF Opens a Door to Linux Dynamic Scheduling (Maybe with Rust!)  The New Stack

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list  Ars Technica

Linux Foundation Financing Open Source  iProgrammer

Merged as part of an initial batch of AMDGPU/AMDKFD fixes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is support for enabling the GFXOFF feature when ROCm compute applications are active on GFX11 (RDNA3) hardware...

Linux Can Now Engage GFXOFF When Running ROCm Compute Apps On RDNA3 GPUs  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS Linux Performance With The TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 Review  Phoronix

When it comes to AMD Zen 4 laptop testing to date I've done a lot of testing with the Ryzen 7 7840U as well as the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U which have proved to be very capable 8-core / 16-thread laptop processors with performant integrated graphics and running great on Linux -- besides the current lack of Ryzen AI. Recently TUXEDO Computer sent over their newly announced Pulse 14 Gen 3 Linux laptop featuring the Ryzen 7 7840HS part, which is the focus of today's testing.