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Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support
The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. Th...
2024-12-04 16:55
Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2024
The December 2024 LF newsletter is full of essential updates. We’ve got can’t-miss events, research news, new open source initiatives, and more! We’re so glad you’re here. Check out the highlights, save the dates, and be sure to register for u...
2024-12-04 15:28
This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie”
Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” default artwork has been revealed featuring organic forms inspired by Trixie's frill, with an obvious debt to futurePrototype. The post This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” appeared first on 9to...
2024-12-04 15:03
Canonical announces Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program 
Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program, a free partnership between Canonical and open source vulnerability scanning organizations.  The goal is to ensure vulnerability data is more transp...
2024-12-04 14:56
Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo – A Unified Decision
The decision to move to Forgejo as the new git forge has been made. There are numerous factors involved in this decision and this article will discuss them, present some background on the process, and invite one more chance for feedback before the form...
2024-12-04 14:11
Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo
The decision to move to Forgejo as the new git forge has been made. There are numerous factors involved in this decision and this article will discuss them, present some background on the process, and invite one more chance for feedback before the form...
2024-12-04 14:11
NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3
With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.
2024-12-04 13:39
"Ceratopsian" will be the default theme for Debian 13
The theme "Ceratopsian" by Elise Couper has been selected as the default theme for Debian 13 "trixie". The theme is inspired by Trixie's (the fictional character from Toy Story) frill and is also influenced by a previously used theme called "futureProt...
2024-12-04 13:30
Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release
As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...
2024-12-04 10:53
OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance
In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN D...
2024-12-04 10:35
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...
2024-12-04 10:27
Leap Micro 6.1 Release Candidate
Release Candidate images of Leap Micro 6.1 can be found at get.opensuse.org. At this point we’re only awaiting confirmation of the Leap Micro 6.1 maintenance setup prior making an official release; hopefully coming later this week. Please be aware th...
2024-12-04 10:00
Fedora 42 Looking To Package Intel SGX Software Stack
Fedora stakeholders are evaluating supporting an Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) software stack with next year's Fedora 42 release...
2024-12-04 08:48
New Linux Patches Cleanup Code For Running x86 32-bit Kernels On x86_64 CPUs
As we approach 2025, hopefully none of you are still running x86 32-bit kernels / 32-bit OS software on x86_64 processors, but should you still be into that, there are improvements on the way...
2024-12-04 06:37
Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 Released Ahead Of The Arc B580 "Battlemage" Launch
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is out as the newest monthly-ish update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Linux and Windows for the OpenCL and Level Zero support. This Compute Runtime 24.45.31740.9 is also the last update ahead of n...
2024-12-04 06:24
VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal
VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now...
2024-12-04 06:03
SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux
Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO_uring functionality...
2024-12-04 05:45
Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Image Compression Going Back To Tigerlake
Merged for Mesa 25.0 yesterday to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is enabling more storage compression on Tigerlake graphics hardware and newer...
2024-12-04 05:37
Flexbar Brings Apple’s Touch Bar Back from the Dead
A new crowdfunding project aims to revive the (oft-derided) MacBook Pro Touch Bar, this time as a standalone device that work with Windows, macOS and, potentially, Linux too. It’s called Flexbar, and it’s currently seeking cash through Kickstarter....
2024-12-03 23:52
AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub
Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the op...
2024-12-03 20:50