Linus Torvalds took time out of his Father's Day to release Linux 6.4-rc7 as the newest weekly test candidate for this kernel that's likely to be officially released next weekend.

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 18th, 2023, brings news about a major Steam Client update, Ubuntu 22.10 EOL, SparkyLinux 7.0, and more.

While the Linux 6.5 merge window isn't opening for another week, Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda has already submitted the pull request of the new Rust kernel code destined for this next kernel cycle.

OBS Studio 29.1.3 open-source software for live streaming and screen recording is now available for download with various bug fixes.

Nitrux developers announce the Nitrux Update Tool System utility to make it easier to update your immutable Nitrux Linux OS installations.

System76 updates its Oryx Pro and Bonobo WS Linux-powered laptops with 13th Gen Intel Core CPUs, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090 GPUs, and more.

SVT-AV1 1.6 is now available as the latest version for this leading CPU-based AV1 encoder that is now enjoying 30~40% faster performance with high quality presets.

Linux Mint 21.2 Beta images are now available for download and public testing with Cinnamon 5.8, Xfce 4.18, and MATE 1.26 editions.

If your newer desktop motherboard has a NCT6799D Super I/O controller or one of the variants like NCT6799D-S, the Linux 6.5 kernel is set to introduce support for this ASIC in order to expose hardware sensor support under Linux.

As another feature on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel cycle is the large extent counts feature of the XFS file-system no longer being treated as 'experimental' but is now considered safe to deploy.

The upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel is poised to add support for Qualcomm's Adreno 690 GPU to the open-source MSM kernel graphics/display driver

Another feature scheduled to be sent in for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window is introducing support for provisioning primitives for thinly provisioned storage with the Device Mapper (DM) code.

KDE Plasma 5.27.6 is now available as the sixth maintenance update to KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS series with several UI improvements and bug fixes.

Introduced with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors are various new accelerators available on select SKUs or via the Intel On Demand offering

Linux Mint as the popular desktop Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu LTS releases and known for their Cinnamon desktop is out today with their 21.2 'Victoria' beta release for testing.