System76 has contributed Intel Core Raptor Lake HX support to Coreboot with some minor additions over the existing Raptor Lake 'RPL' code as well as adding their new Adder WS 3 laptop to upstream Coreboot.

Linux Mint 21.2 has been released today as the newest update to this Ubuntu 22.04 LTS based Linux distribution known for its Cinnamon desktop environment and other Linux desktop focused refinements.

Pull that party popper 'cos Linux Mint 21.2 'Victoria' is now officially available to download. This release is the stable series successor to last year's

The newest weekly test version of the Linux 6.5 kernel is now available for evaluation and looking out for any bugs/regressions.

Introduction of new testing jobs trigger for Packit - manual_trigger - together with --labels and --identifier parameters.

Slackware Linux, one of the world's oldest surviving Linux distributions, has just turned 30 and it's still active. Happy birthday!

GNU Boot 20230717 has been released as the fork of Libreboot that in turn is a downstream of Coreboot focused on providing system firmware support only where they are fully free software

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 16th, 2023, brings news about SUSE forking RHEL, Thunderbird Supernova, Linux 6.3 EOL, and more.

SparkyLinux 2023.07 rolling distribution is now available for download with packages from the Debian 13 "Trixie" repositories, and more.

The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) has long been a source of issues for Linux developers and it turns out systems relying on HPET rather than the CPU's TSC have in recent months suffered significant performance degradation with the Mesa OpenGL driver code.

With the Intel Xeon Max testing at Phoronix that's been ongoing so far for the past month on Phoronix has all been done within the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR rackmount server.

Merged for Linux 6.5 was initial MIDI 2.0 support for the necessary USB audio and raw MIDI drivers to support this major MIDI update

Merged to Mesa 23.2-devel recently was an Intel Arc Graphics driver change to improve performance.

Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” users can now upgrade their installations to the latest Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” release. Here's how!

A set of 35 patches were posted on Sunday for introducing ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) support to the Linux kernel

While Intel Arc Graphics continue enjoying performance optimizations with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, the major limitation facing Arc Graphics on Linux right now for gamers is the lack of sparse residency support that is needed for running…

There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or 'decrapification' as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support

MySQL 8.1 is available today with the community server builds now available for this latest major update to this popular SQL database server.