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As covered in the launch-day Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT Linux review/testing, there is already upstream open-source driver support for these new RDNA3 graphics cards in recent versions of the Linux kernel and Mesa

As an experimental feature for next month's Ubuntu 23.10 release, Canonical is introducing initial support for TPM-based full disk encryption to make use of your system's Trusted Platform Module (TPM)

In addition to the notable sound changes that merged last week for Linux 6.6 that included AMD VanGogh SOF support and enablement around a Valve 'Galileo' device, sent in via the MFD pull request this week is work enabling the new Cirrus Logic CS42L43 audio codec.

Greg Kroah-Hartman last Friday sent out the 'char/misc' changes for the Linux 6.6 kernel merge window that include the catch-all of different driver changes

The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were merged this past weekend for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window.

After a hiatus due to the pandemic, systemd's All Systems Go conference is returning next week to Berlin.

The Linux 6.6 FUSE driver code for enabling file-systems in user-space is adding support for STATX to the protocol as part of focusing on enabling file birth time 'btime' support.

Last month AMD announced the Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards while today these graphics cards go on sale for $449 and $499 USD, respectively.

On the AMD CPU side of the house, one of the patch series we are looking forward to seeing upstreamed in the Linux kernel is the AMD Preferred Core functionality that was initially sent out this summer

The release candidates were tagged this morning of GNOME Shell and Mutter ahead of the 'GNOME 45.rc' test release coming out within the next few days