The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 30th, 2023, brings news about Ubuntu 23.10 codename, Nitrux 2.8, GNOME 44.1, Debian 11.7, and more.

Merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel were all of the VirtIO and Virtual Data Path Acceleration (VDPA) changes

Near the start of 2022 engineers out of the Qualcomm Innovation Center posted Linux driver patches for their Gunyah hypervisor

With Linux running on everything from tiny single board computers with basic WiFi or Ethernet networking up through massive super-computer clusters, the Linux networking subsystem continues seeing immense improvements each kernel cycle

Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' was a bountiful release that brought a bunch of brilliant improvements to the fore — but alas, the end is nigh. Well, kind

While there is already Fedora Silverblue as a Fedora Workstation variant leveraging RPM-OSTree for creating an ummutable OS image and Fedora Kinoite as a KDE-based alternative, Fedora Onyx has been proposed as a new immutable variant of Fedora Linux.

Ubuntu 23.04 ships with GNOME 44 and if, like some, you'd prefer to access MPRIS controls from there, there's a new extension on hand to help. Quick

Kubuntu Focus launches the Focus Ir14 Linux-powered laptop as an affordable, enterprise-ready system featuring Kubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Last week System76 released System76-Scheduler 2.0 as their Rust-written Linux desktop scheduler that serves as a user-space daemon to dynamically manage process priorities to favor performance and responsiveness

The Device Mapper 'DM' subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel and it includes some notable performance optimizations.

As expected following yesterday's AMD Git activity, ROCm 5.5 was officially released overnight as AMD's latest version of their open-source GPU compute stack that is their alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA or Intel's oneAPI / Level Zero.

The USB/Thunderbolt changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel and it ended up being a net reduction in the number of lines of code as a result of ditching two outdated USB drivers.

A set of patches to the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver and Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver would allow more easily relaying information about the reasons why a GPU hang/reset occur so that the user-space software can be more informed about any issues.

Linux Mint 21.2 is be the next major update to this popular Ubuntu-based Linux distribution and, when it arrives, it'll be sporting some In his latest

You may recall last year how several prominent upstream kernel developers recommended avoiding Intel's latest laptops for Linux use that bear their IPU6 MIPI camera over the lack of upstream open-source support

OBS Studio 29.1 open-source screen recording and live streaming app is now available for download with many new features and improvements.

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Debian's APT packaging tool that is also used by downstreams like Ubuntu has begun seeing initial support for 'snapshots' introduced.