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Since 2021 among other Snap'ing efforts for converting formerly Ubuntu DEB packages to Canonical's Snap sandboxed app packaging format has been the CUPS print server

It looks like the further-tuned AMD Inception / SRSO (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) mitigation code will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.6 merge window.

The Vulkan 1.3.262 revision to this industry standard for high performance graphics and compute is now published

Miguel Ojeda who leads the 'Rust for Linux' effort of integrating Rust programming language support into the Linux kernel has already submitted his pull request of planned feature updates for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle.

Oliver Smith at Canonical who serves as the Product Manager for Ubuntu Desktop published a post on 'charting a course for the future' of the Ubuntu desktop.

AMD used the Gamescom gaming conference in Cologne, Germany for announcing the Radeon RX 7700 XT and Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics cards as the newest consumer cards in the RDNA3 family. Both the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards are catering to gamers that game with a 1440p (2560 x 1440) resolution. The Radeon RX 7700 XT features 54 compute units, 54 RT accelerators, 108 AI accelerators, a 2171MHz game clock, and has 12GB of GDDR6 video memory on a 192-bit interface.

In addition to AMD sending out DCN 3.5 display patches for that next-gen display IP block presumably for their upcoming Ryzen 8000 series APUs, Intel's open-source engineers today sent out the patches enabling Lunar Lake display support for their i915 kernel driver while there is also support baking for their in-development Xe kernel driver.

With Ubuntu 23.10 shipping next month one of the changes expected on the desktop side was using a GIMP 3.0 snapshot for this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative rather than sticking to the aging GIMP 2.10 series

Seemingly for Intel's upcoming Raptor Lake Refresh processors, some new graphics PCI IDs were added today to Mesa for the Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers.

While AMD has acquired a number of hardware companies in the past several years, software company acquisitions by AMD has been much more rare