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• Front: GNOME a11y; hierarchical scheduler; CoMaps; GPU restore; FAIR.pm; buffered I/O writeback; NFS; Lustre
• Briefs: Rocky Linux 10.0; Git 2.50; KDE Plasma 6.4; Kubernetes Slack; Python Language Summit; Radicle Desktop; Quote; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing. Notable for Linux users is the continued quest toward Wayland support at parity to X11...

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Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today's interesting CPUs. Out today is the third iteration of cache-aware scheduling with an important rework...

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The Zed Editor remains a popular code editor written in the Rust programming language and providing modern features for this project started by former Atom developers. One of the long sought features for Zed has been having built-in debugger capabilities and that work has finally been merged to the project's codebase...

Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday...

The POSIX realtime model, which is implemented in the Linux kernel, can ensure that a realtime process obtains the CPU time it needs to get its job done. It can be less effective, though, when there are multiple realtime processes competing for the available CPU resources. The hierarchical constant bandwidth server patch series, posted by Yuri Andriaccio with work by Luca Abeni, Alessio Balsini, and Andrea Parri, is a modification to the Linux scheduler intended to make it possible to configure systems with multiple realtime tasks in a deterministic and correct manner.

Back in February the Framework Laptop 12 was announced as the company's first 2-in-1 convertible laptop while still being well-built and upgrade-friendly/modular as we have come to enjoy out of their various Linux-friendly laptops. Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework Laptop 12 and thus can share our initial impressions on this Intel-powered 12-inch laptop.

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