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It's Fedora 40 release day! Fedora 40 is now available for download from mirrors for this leading Linux distribution.

After recently announcing they'd be working to get out Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) firmware documentation and open-source code, AMD said they would be working to open-source more of their software stack and hardware documentation

The Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 release is now available that serves as the company's modern Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems

Submitted for code review this weekend was a new MSI WMI Platform driver that was developed via reverse engineering MSI laptops

Right now for buggy HID hardware or other input devices not exactly aligning to specs or having known hardware workarounds required, a new Linux kernel driver tends to be needed or at least quirks to be added to existing kernel driver code

The Audacity open-source digital audio editor is out today with a big feature update in the form of Audacity 3.5.

A patch is undergoing work to add Steam Deck IMU support to the HID-Steam kernel driver for supporting the accelerometer and gyroscope sensors of the Steam Deck controller.

While there is a growing number of PCIe 5.0 consumer NVMe SSDs available through Internet retailers, when it comes to PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD data center / enterprise grade solid-state drives there aren't as many yet and even for announced ones they have been relatively in short supply.

LACT 0.5.4 is out as the open-source and independently developed 'Linux AMDGPU Control Application' for this community AMD Linux graphics driver control panel option given the lack of any official Radeon GUI management solution from AMD.

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has announced the released of Fwupd 1.9.17, the newest update to this open-source solution for system and device firmware updating under Linux that is paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a streamlined user experience.