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Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.7-rc4 kernel around twelve hours early today due to his end-of-year travels.

GDB 14.1 has been released today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for source-level debugging of C/C++, Rust, Fortran, Go, Ada, and other languages.

It's the season for hardware and software upgrades as Phoronix.com rolls out to new infrastructure

For those that happen to own an ASRock Rack X570D4U micro-ATX motherboard or are in the market for a server-grade AMD Ryzen 5000 series motherboard, patches are pending as this motherboard works on OpenBMC support as an alternative to the proprietary BMC software stack that ships with this AMD Ryzen 5000 series + ECC DDR4 supported motherboard.

Steam on Linux enjoyed a various nice boost in popularity during the course of November at least as it concerns Valve's Steam Survey.

With this week's release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase ahead of the stable releases coming up in February

Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their 'Gen 11' server fleet built around AMD EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their forthcoming 'Gen 12' server designs that will soon be rolling out across their data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure.

Vulkan 1.3.272 was published on Friday as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API.

On Friday another round of fixes were merged for the Bcachefs file-system for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel.

The PVR Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa for modern PowerVR graphics hardware has now landed support for using the upcoming PowerVR DRM kernel driver that is being upstreamed in Linux 6.8.