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Prior to Linus Torvalds' Internet and electricity being knocked out by a snow storm and thus impacting the Linux 6.8 merge window, his weekend was already in rough shape due to encountering a performance regression with new Linux 6.8 code that was causing his Linux kernel builds to be as twice as long as with previous kernels

Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer 'end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration' with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution.

After a few weeks hiatus due to the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back in the saddle with his weekly development reports around KDE.

Intel engineer Dan Williams continues leading the charge around Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel.

The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project.

The KVM virtualization changes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is quite heavy on the feature side.

In addition to the Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.8, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have also been separately submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window.

Linux Mint 21.3 is now available for the latest version of this easy-to-use, beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution that is currently built atop an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base.

Intel has prepared additional Trust Domain Extensions enablement code for the ongoing Linux 6.8 kernel merge window.

One of the features sadly not having made it in time for the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window is the AMD P-State Preferred Core support