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For those with some extra time on your hands around the holidays, the second beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6.0 is now available for testing.

GRUB 2.06 was released back in June of 2021 and today it's finally been succeeded by..

The Bcachefs file-system has landed some additional fixes ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.7 stable release.

Back in January I wrote about Intel working on a Timed I/O driver for Linux with PPS (Pulse Per Second) to help with time synchronization between multiple devices

Among the newly-proposed features for Fedora 40 is enabling WiFi MAC address randomization by default to yield better user privacy.

Intel's new Xe kernel graphics driver is set for merging into Linux 6.8 as an experimental option

OpenSUSE is now providing builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS that are making use of systemd-boot as its bootloader rather than GRUB and also leveraging full disk encryption via systemd.

Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows...

Last week Intel launched their Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' notebook processors.

It's just not old wired and wireless networking drivers being removed from the mainline Linux kernel but as part of some winter-time cleaning a set of patches have been posted that would remove much of the remaining SPARC32 support for old 32-bit Sun workstations.