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April 2024 is now in the books after writing 257 original Linux/open-source-related news articles and another 13 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews

Sent in to DRM-Next as part of last week's drm-misc-next changes is implementing support for tracking cleared free memory and is initially wired up for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.

Queued up as part of the DeviceMapper dm-crypt changes for Linux 6.10 is adding a new 'high priority' option.

For now Fedora / Red Hat is not making any immediate changes, but the ever increasing sizes of required GPU firmware files is causing Linux distribution vendors to re-think including GPU kernel graphics drivers as part of the initramfs.

Intel motherboard manufacturers have begun rolling out BIOS updates containing an 'Intel Baseline Profile' option to apply stock power limits to modern Intel processors.

Following last week's release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Canonical has now rolled out Landscape 24.04 LTS as the first long-term support version of this commercial software for managing a fleet of Ubuntu systems from a web-based portal

Serpent OS lead developer Ikey Doherty published a monthly status update for this original Linux distribution, which points to having a working OS installer soon so users can begin trying out this creation on real hardware.

Kicking off a new month of open-source releases is the release of the GNU Nano 8.0 text editor.

Last November the PCI-SIG announced CopprLink as the PCI Express cable name for both internal and external cabling

Some that crave the absolute best possible performance sometimes build their software with the '-Ofast' optimization level that is a step above '-O3' but comes with the risk of potentially unsafe math