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This update of the nano terminal editor brings crash fixes, key-binding restoration, and a small but useful option tweak.

AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...

Shotcut 26.7 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software that introduces new features and improvements.

Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...

Today marks the 27th annual SysAdmin Day, celebrating the people who keep servers alive, networks running, and users away from dangerous buttons.

Following AMD posting AMDGPU patches for HDMI 2.1 FRL support after the HDMI 2.1 open-source support was long blocked by the HDMI Forum, as part of working toward a complete HDMI 2.1 implementation in this AMD Linux driver it was followed by HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) support. Now the latest on the AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 enabling path is enabling Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM) as well as HDMI Variable Rate Refresh!..

GNU Nano 9.2 is now available with a new terminal output check, clearer multibuffer aliases, and restored support for legacy keystrokes.

The Xen 4.22 hypervisor arrives with x86 FRED support, AMD Bus Lock Threshold, ARM guest suspend and resume, and Xenstore scalability improvements.

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday...

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.12 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform ebook management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year...

Researchers found that seven of nine tested Hugging Face image-editing tools produced sexualized alterations, highlighting gaps in model oversight, provenance, and enterprise vendor controls.

Krita 5.3.3 and the experimental Qt 6-based Krita 6.0.3 arrive with crash fixes, animation improvements, and better font handling.

Today's Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers...

Valve wasn’t trying to save Linux gaming. It was running from Windows 8. Here’s how that panic move built SteamOS, Proton, and the Steam Machine.

FreeBSD thought it had scrubbed all GPL code, but a few kernel leftovers remained.

The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler...

Like how gravity works or the ending of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” one of life’s mysteries is why the Turkish Linux distro Pardus isn’t near the top of the list of all-time greats.This week's Distro of the Week is Pardus 25.2 Xfce, which shows all of its strengths.

With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back I had run some graphics benchmarks to see how Nouveau+NVK was performing for this Razer Blade RZ09-0582 with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even noting "Ryzen Master" as the Windows-only software for overclocking and system management...