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AMD Driver Lands DCC For Multi-Plane Formats With RDNA4, Tiling For Video Buffers
More RadeonSI Gallium3D changes worth mentioning have landed today in Mesa 25.1 Git for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack...
2025-02-26 08:55
Intel Graphics Driver With Linux 6.15 To Allow Tuning The GuC Power Profile
Following the various Intel graphics driver feature updates sent out earlier this week in building up the new kernel graphics/display driver features for Linux 6.15, another prominent pull request was sent out yesterday with additional material...
2025-02-26 06:51
FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses
FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in next month's Linux 6.15 merge window...
2025-02-26 06:30
Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management
Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) code has added support for this protocol...
2025-02-26 06:17
Spectre Mitigations Being Worked On For BPF Programs
A "request for comments" patch series sent out on Monday is working on Spectre mitigations for BPF programs using speculation barriers...
2025-02-26 06:08
Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12
Framework announced the Framework Desktop and Framework Laptop 12, along with an updated Framework Laptop 13. Here are the details! The post Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not repro...
2025-02-26 00:13
Framework Announces Ryzen AI Max Powered Desktop, Framework Laptop 12
Earlier today Framework Computer held a virtual and in-person event to announce their 2nd gen offerings in the form of a mini-ITX desktop powered by the new Ryzen AI Max SoCs, a 2-in-1 convertible laptop with the Framework Laptop 12, and Ryzen AI 300 s...
2025-02-25 20:22
Christoph Hellwig Steps Down From One Of His Kernel Roles Following Rust Drama
Following the recent Rust drama within the Linux kernel that came out in part because Christoph Hellwig expressed objections to Rust bindings for the DMA mapping helpers that he is a maintainer of, Hellwig has now stepped down as one of the DMA mapping...
2025-02-25 18:42
KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Released with Animated WebP and GIF Support for Spectacle
KDE Plasma 6.3.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and other improvements. The post KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Released with Animated WebP and GIF Support for Spectacle a...
2025-02-25 16:54
App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Folders
The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ability to rearrange them using drag and drop and create custom folders to group apps together. Some folks prefer a little...
2025-02-25 16:44
Cloud-native telecom infrastructure with Canonical Kubernetes at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, we’re excited to showcase the capability of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support), which brings up to 12 years of support  and security maintenance to Kubernetes.  Available via Ubuntu Pro, Canonical K...
2025-02-25 11:30
AMD Ryzen 9000 vs. Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake On Linux For Q1-2025 In ~400 Benchmarks
For those wondering how the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" series and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" desktop processors are battling it out on Linux, here are some fresh benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with the latest software updates as well as the ...
2025-02-25 10:40
Eight New Security Vulnerabilities Reported Against The X.Org Server & XWayland
Eight new security issues have now been made public around the X.Org Server codebase that also impact XWayland...
2025-02-25 10:39
Valkey container image – securely designed, compliant, and long term supported (LTS)
Canonical has published best-in-class OCI-compliant Valkey container images that feature enhanced security. These images are based on Ubuntu LTS packages, which are supported, maintained, and hardened by Canonical for up to 10 years and include a softw...
2025-02-25 10:00
Rust-Written Zlib-rs Is Not Only Safer But Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations
Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib...
2025-02-25 06:47
Linux 6.15 Intel Xe Driver Enabling PXP HWDRM, Survivability Mode & GPU + VRAM Temperatures
Complementing yesterday's initial set of Intel graphics driver feature patches planned for Linux 6.15, a drm-xe-next pull request was also submitted to DRM-Next containing a lot of new feature code for the modern Xe kernel Direct Rendering Manager driv...
2025-02-25 06:27
GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support
As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!..
2025-02-25 06:07
MythTV 35 Released For This Once Widely-Used Open-Source DVR/PVR Software
The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren't nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now a...
2025-02-25 05:53
Plank Reloaded is a Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing is, the ...
2025-02-25 02:56
Plank Reloaded: Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing is, the ...
2025-02-25 02:56