The Btrfs scrub code that is used for going through file-system data/metadata to verify checksums and repairing damaged blocks is seeing some improvements come Linux 6.4. This week a number of patches from SUSE engineer Qu Wenruo were queued into kdave's…

Going along with other Lunar Lake enablement work that has already been started for the upstream Linux kernel, the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle will see HD audio support enabled for this successor to Arrow Lake.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc6 for this Easter Sunday as we work towards the official Linux 6.3 debut in the next few weeks.

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The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 9th, 2023, brings news about new Linux gaming laptop, new KDE goodies, new RISC-V SBC, and more.

Longtime X.Org release wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle spent some of his Easter working out new releases of seldom-touched X.Org graphics/display drivers.

The Intel Media Driver 2023Q1 has been published as the newest feature release for Intel's open-source video acceleration driver providing VA-API support across generations of their integrated graphics as well as newer discrete graphics.

While AMD Zen 4 'Dragon Range' and 'Phoenix' laptops are imminent, for those using an older AMD Picasso laptop design from 2019, there are some new Linux fixes on the way for enhancing that older Zen+ experience.

In time for the upcoming Mesa 23.1 branching and feature freeze, Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has enabled the graphics pipeline library 'GPL' support by default with the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver.

Intel has released oneAPI Level Zero Loader 1.10 today, which implements the Level Zero v1.6 specification.

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Mozilla has published the Firefox 112.0 binaries today ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling.

Just before Christmas Meson 1.0 was released for this widely-used, open-source software build system

Mozilla Firefox 112 open-source web browser is now available for download with the ability to import browser data from the Chromium Snap.

NVIDIA launched their SHIELD 'Thunderstrike' gaming controller back in 2017 and now in 2023 they are working to upstream their HD driver support for it.

GNOME 45, the next major version of the popular desktop environment, has been slated for release on September 20th, 2023.

Alyssa Rosenzweig who has been leading the Panfrost open-source Arm Mali graphics driver reverse engineering effort the past half-decade is stepping down as maintainer of this driver as part of this also being her last day at Collabora.

4MLinux 42 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, new and updated software, as well as other changes.

This post is based on a presentation by Tejas Patel, program manager in the information innovation office at DARPA, given during ONE Summit North America 2022. 

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