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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.11
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is now available for download as the second point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series with up-to-date components. The post Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powere...
2025-02-20 13:29
Rust 1.85 Release Stabilizes Rust 2024 Edition
Rust 1.85 is out today and it is also the release that stabilizes the Rust 2024 Edition...
2025-02-20 13:18
OpenRazer 3.10 Delivers New Razer Hardware Support For Linux Users
OpenRazer 3.10 was just released as the newest update to this set of community-maintained, open-source out-of-tree driver packages for enabling Razer device support on Linux...
2025-02-20 12:49
Windows to Linux, Set Up Full Disk Encryption on openSUSE
Data breaches and cyber threats are becoming increasingly common and securing your personal and professional information has never been more critical. Users transitioning from Windows to Linux through the Upgrade to Freedom campaign can use openSUSE’...
2025-02-20 12:00
Linux Finally Introducing A Standardized Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to finally introduce a standardized way of informing user-space of GPUs becoming hung or otherwise unresponsive. This is initially wired up for AMD and Intel graphics drivers on Linux so the user can be properly no...
2025-02-20 09:30
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack
Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Linux...
2025-02-20 08:55
Linux Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" Reducing TLB Shootdowns By 97%, Faster AI LLM Performance
SK has been working on a Linux kernel feature dubbed Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" to defer TLB flushes until folios have been unmapped and freed are eventually allocated again...
2025-02-20 07:07
New Patches Would Make All Kernel Encryption/Decryption Faster On x86/x86_64 Hardware
On top of all the recent x86/x86_64 Linux kernel crypto improvements made recently by Google engineer Eric Biggers to better laverage AVX-512 and other modern x86 ISA features, a new patch-set posted today by Biggers would help make all x86/x86_64 kern...
2025-02-20 06:37
Debian Policy Updated With New Packaging Guidance & Updated Chinese Translations
The Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 is now available as the updated manual around policy requirements for the Debian distribution for packaging mandates, design issues, and other details to abide by for Debian developers...
2025-02-20 06:25
GNOME Mutter Adds Debug Option To Override Multi-GPU Copy Mode
A new debug option was merged on Wednesday to Mutter Git ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release. This new debug option is to override the GPU copy mode handling for multi-GPU setups...
2025-02-20 06:10
Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further
Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...
2025-02-20 00:00
Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to ‘Diversify’
Mozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the company’s ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant. “Mozilla’s impact and survival depend on us simultaneous...
2025-02-19 23:06
AMD ROCm 6.3.3 Released With Installer & Documentation Improvements
Just a few weeks after the ROCm 6.3.2 update, ROCm 6.3.3 is out this evening with a few more incremental improvements to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...
2025-02-19 20:20
Mesa 25.0 Released with Support for Vulkan 1.4 & OpenGL 4.6
A new version of the Mesa graphics library has been released. Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘flashiest addition’ in this new development release as it spans Anv (Intel), Asahi (Apple), Lavapipe (software), NVK (N...
2025-02-19 20:12
Mesa 25.0 Linux Graphics Stack Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support on RADV, ANV, and NVK
Mesa 25.0 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as for numerous video games. The post Mesa 25.0 Linux Graphics Stack Brings Vulkan 1.4 Suppo...
2025-02-19 17:58
Linux Foundation Newsletter: February 2025
Welcome to the February 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got a lot to cover–an intent to form, a new initiative around cyber readiness legislation, project milestones, and a new survey in the field! We are so glad you’re here. Check out ...
2025-02-19 16:34
Fedora Rolling Out More RISC-V Infrastructure & Ready-To-Boot Images
The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards to run Fedora Linux...
2025-02-19 14:00
Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready
Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...
2025-02-19 11:39
Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs
A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support workin...
2025-02-19 10:13
VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support
VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...
2025-02-19 08:45