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As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers

After the patches had been in development for well more than a year, sent out today for the Linux 6.4 merge window are the NFS server (NFSD) changes that include supporting RPC-with-TLS.

Dragora remains one of the few Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation and is a from-scratch distribution focused on providing only free software..

The x86 platform driver updates for the Linux 6.4 kernel merge window have landed

It's likely been years since many of you have heard of Firewire and some readers likely never had the opportunity to use it

For those making use of the Radeon R600 Gallium3D driver within Mesa for supporting the Radeon HD 2000 series through the HD 6000 series (pre-GCN) graphics cards, Mesa 23.2 is finally ready to drop its TGSI code path for what was once the default intermediate representation (IR) used by Gallium3D drivers but in more recent years NIR has become the preferred IR format.

After profiling and raising an issue by Google's Chrome OS engineers, there is a set of 'request for comments' patches out today for the Intel Linux graphics driver that can provide 10~15% better performance when operating in the tuned mode.

Linux sound subsystem maintainer and SUSE engineer Takashi Iwai submitted all of the sound driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.4 kernel merge window.

Introduced one month ago in Vulkan 1.3.246 was the new VK_EXT_shader_object extension that was worked on by developers from Activision to Valve

While AMD has yet to launch the Radeon RX 7600 or RX 7600 series graphics cards (sans the RX 7700S), AMD's GPUOpen tooling has seen new releases today in preparation for those forthcoming RDNA3 GPUs.