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.

Last week the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public as a speculative side channel attack affecting Zen processors and different mitigation options based on the CPU generation.

Devuan GNU+Linux 5 distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 12 "Bookworm" but without the systemd init system.

Chrome 116 is out today as the newest stable version of Google's web browser.

Intel this afternoon released the Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) v1.2 SDK as this gaming image upscaling tech that leverages AI deep learning for better performance and less image degradation on Intel Arc Graphics as well as from other GPU vendors.

Using Cockpit to managing systems without installing cockpit on the remote systems

Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop.

Imagination Technologies has posted the fifth iteration of their driver patches for supporting PowerVR Rogue graphics with an open-source Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver that will go along with their Mesa PVR Vulkan driver.

XWayland 23.2 is out as stable today for this X.Org Server code for enjoying X11 window/client support within Wayland compositors

In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch 'Loong64' as a new Debian Port.

The Debian Project and Debian GNU/Linux distribution turn 30 years of existence since the late Ian Murdock first announced them back in 1993.

Distrobox as the open-source project allowing easy access to running other distributions/apps via Podman and Docker has merged support for ChromeOS.

While many Linux gamers are all-set these days by making use of Steam and leveraging Valve's Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux, for those running macOS or also wishing to enjoy more office/application-oriented Windows software on Linux support…