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The Google Tensor GS101 SoC launched in 2021 with the Google Pixel 6 smartphone

The Asahi Linux crew has released Fedora Asahi Remix as their Fedora 39 derived Linux distribution optimized for Apple Silicon Macs.

PoCL 5.0 has been officially released as the latest version of this 'Portable Computing Language' implementation that provides OpenCL support for CPU-based execution as well as various other LLVM-based hardware back-ends like for NVIDIA PTX and oneAPI Level Zero

KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared a status update on the current state of HDR support for the KDE Plasma desktop.

A new driver set to be merged in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle is 'gigabyte_waterforce' as a new kernel driver for supporting Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO coolers.

Linux 6.7-rc6 was released today while the final release of Linux 6.7 is likely to come New Year's weekend and complicating the opening of the Linux 6.8 merge window around the end-of-year holidays.

Since Linux 6.1 when the very initial Rust infrastructure was added to the Linux kernel there's been a lot of other plumbing and house keeping merged since for enabling kernel drivers to be written in the Rust programming language

While Intel Meteor Lake processors only launched last week, Intel Linux engineers have already been busy for some time enabling next-generation Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors.

All the pieces have been aligned that the mainline Linux 6.8 kernel should be able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC without any out-of-tree patches being necessary.

With the new Intel 5th Gen Xeon 'Emerald Rapids' processors there is a new feature called the Optimized Power Mode (OPM).