Apple and other Big Tech companies won the FCC approval for 6GHz. A future with a faster and better connection is coming with Apple and other Big Tech companies finally winning the FCC's approval for accessing the 6GHz band for its devices.
The past few weeks I've been putting the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD mobile workstation through its paces that is powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U SoC.
As of this writing, 5,776 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the
mainline kernel for the 6.3 release; that is a bit less than half of the
work that was waiting in linux-next before the merge window opened. This
merge window is thus well underway, but far from complete. Quite a bit of
significant work has been pulled so far; read on to see what entered the
kernel in the first half of the 6.3 merge window.
Following this afternoon's release of the Linux 6.3 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu has already been released as this downstream kernel flavor that removes support for loading binary-only modules and trying to de-blob other driver code that otherwise depends upon 'non-free' code.
The latest chip from Qualcomm offers several impressive advances in computing performance, image capture and processing, gaming (including hardware-based ray-tracing support), audio quality, connectivity, and more. Even.