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With Linux 6.3 released that marks the opening of the two-week Linux 6.4 merge window

After being deprecated for several years, Security Enhanced Linux 'SELinux' beginning with the Linux 6.4 kernel can no longer be run-time disabled.

In clearing up the state of various X.Org packages that have been effectively unmaintained for years, an attempt is being made to better communicate the status of some 'retired' X.Org packages that Linux distributions should work towards removing as they are no longer being maintained.

Open-source Linux graphics driver engineer Melissa Wen with Igalia, Joshua Ashton with Valve, and Harry Wentland with AMD have been working on kernel mode-setting (KMS) color pipeline enhancements for SteamOS and in particular for enhancing the Steam Deck.

Kdenlive remains one of the best available fully open-source non-linear video editing solutions available

Following this afternoon's release of the Linux 6.3 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu has already been released as this downstream kernel flavor that removes support for loading binary-only modules and trying to de-blob other driver code that otherwise depends upon 'non-free' code.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3 as the newest stable kernel version.

With the Linux 6.4 kernel there is the ability being introduced so that the machine keyring can optionally only store CA-enforced keys.

Fedora 39 this autumn is looking at boosting its vm.max_map_count default to better match the behavior of SteamOS / Steam Deck and allowing more Windows games to run out-of-the-box with Steam Play.

The tech layoffs have now reached Red Hat with 'hundreds of jobs' being cut and the initial round of layoffs being announced today.