With the in-development NVK driver merged for Mesa 23.3 to provide open-source NVIDIA Vulkan API support when paired with the Nouveau kernel driver and the necessary Nouveau kernel driver improvements coming with Linux 6.6 for supporting this driver, Phoronix…

Debian Bookworm and Bullseye users are now patched against the recent "Downfall" and "INCEPTION" hardware flaws affecting Intel and AMD CPUs.

KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on Plasma 6 development and related enhancements to this popular open-source desktop environment.

One of the new Linux kernel patch series out of AMD this week is for exposing ACPI PHAT, the Platform Health Assessment Table.

Last year the DisplayPort 2.1 specification was published and now Intel's open-source Linux engineers are working on adding support to the kernel for handling of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode 2.1 support for that DP operation over USB Type-C connections.

Last month when the Linux kernel was mitigated for Zenbleed as a CPU vulnerability affecting AMD Zen 2 processors, it turns out the Steam Deck APU was accidentally left without coverage

AMD submitted more 'new stuff' for their AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel graphics and compute drivers for the upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel cycle.

Future LibreOffice releases will finally better handle animated PNG (APNG) files

The Mesa Radeon Vulkan 'RADV' driver ray-tracing support is about to become much faster with a pending improvement that is currently undergoing review.

The Bcachefs file-system continues to work its way toward the mainline kernel while interestingly this weekend a Valve developer posted patches for implementing case-folding (case insensitive) feature support for this open-source file-system.

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The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 13th, 2023, brings news about Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS, Rhino Linux, GNOME Asia 2023, and more.

With the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle another exciting change was recently queued up within the block subsystem's 'for-next' branch: IO_uring futex/futexv support.

Intel engineers are working on enhancing the x86_64 CPU microcode updating experience under Linux and in particular the work is ultimately around better supporting of late microcode loading on Linux for Intel systems with a primary focus on Intel servers…

A few days ago Intel compiler expert H.J

AMD's Preferred Core feature continues working its way toward the Linux kernel for this functionality that's been around since Zen 2.

Maíra Canal with Igalia has sent out a set of patches for exposing GPU usage statistics for the Broadcom graphics processor found within the Raspberry Pi 4 single board computers.

Mozilla developers are celebrating that they are now faster than Google Chrome with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, although that test has been superseded by the JetStream benchmark.

OpenMandriva Lx 23.08 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.4, Mesa 23.2, and KDE Plasma 5.27.7 LTS desktop.