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Added to the Linux kernel back in 2020 was a community-written Corsair power supply driver for exposing various sensor data that their higher-end PSUs make available via a USB interface

Earlier this year Intel software engineers published a blazing fast AVX-512 sorting library that was initially picked up by Numpy where it netted them 10~17x faster sorts

A new bi-weekly release of Wine is now available for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms.

With it having been another smooth week so far in the upstream kernel world, it's looking like Linus Torvalds is likely to promote Linux 6.4 tomorrow rather than going ahead with an extra release candidate

Mesa has switched from SHA1 to BLAKE3 for its shader hashing to deliver better performance.

FLAC 1.4.3 is out today as the first update to this Xiph.Org royalty-free, lossless audio codec since last October.

The Go 1.21 release candidate is out today and it's interesting on the performance front plus a few language additions like min / max / clear functions as well as further enhancing its standard library.

Following the recent AMD IOMMU v2 page table work and other IOMMU improvements as part of AMD's effort to further enhance the Linux virtualization support on EPYC server platforms, the latest patches out of AMD as of yesterday are for wokring on hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU (AMD HW-vIOMMU).

AlmaLinux, the popular community-oriented distribution that was established following Red Hat's decision to discontinue development on CentOS (non-Stream) and is backed by AMD and other organizations, is trying to chart its path forward following Red Hat's latest curve ball.

For those making use of the current Linux 6.3 stable series, Linux 6.3.9 is out today and it's particularly important if you make use of the open-source NVIDIA 'Nouveau' kernel graphics driver.