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Linux 6.4 Allows For Optional CA Enforcement Of The Machine Keyring
With the Linux 6.4 kernel there is the ability being introduced so that the machine keyring can optionally only store CA-enforced keys...
Red Hat Begins Cutting "Hundreds Of Jobs"
The tech layoffs have now reached Red Hat with "hundreds of jobs" being cut and the initial round of layoffs being announced today...
3Dfx Voodoo 1 & 2 Glide Linux Driver Retired, Other X.Org Code Officially Retired
In clearing up the state of various X.Org packages that have been effectively unmaintained for years, an attempt is being made to better communicate the status of some "retired" X.Org packages that Linux distributions should work towards removing as they are no longer being maintained...
SELinux In Linux 6.4 Removes Run-Time Disabling Support
After being deprecated for several years, Security Enhanced Linux "SELinux" beginning with the Linux 6.4 kernel can no longer be run-time disabled...
Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck
Open-source Linux graphics driver engineer Melissa Wen with Igalia, Joshua Ashton with Valve, and Harry Wentland with AMD have been working on kernel mode-setting (KMS) color pipeline enhancements for SteamOS and in particular for enhancing the Steam Deck...
Kdenlive 23.04 Open-Source Video Editor Released With Nested Timelines
Kdenlive remains one of the best available fully open-source non-linear video editing solutions available. With today's release of Kdenlive 23.04 they continue enhancing its feature set and improving the UI/UX for those editing videos on the Linux desktop...
Linux 6.4 Kernel Graphics Drivers Include More Meteor Lake Code, Rockchip 4K, QAIC
With Linux 6.3 released that marks the opening of the two-week Linux 6.4 merge window. David Airlie sent in the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates already for Linux 6.4 with the assortment of kernel graphics/display driver updates...
GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu Cleans Up New ath12k WiFi Driver, Other New Additions
Following this afternoon's release of the Linux 6.3 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu has already been released as this downstream kernel flavor that removes support for loading binary-only modules and trying to de-blob other driver code that otherwise depends upon "non-free" code...
GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu Cleans Up New ath12k WiFi Driver, Other New Additions
Following this afternoon's release of the Linux 6.3 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 6.3-gnu has already been released as this downstream kernel flavor that removes support for loading binary-only modules and trying to de-blob other driver code that otherwise depends upon "non-free" code...
Linux 6.3 Released With More Meteor Lake Enablement, Zen 4 Auto IBRS & Much More
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3 as the newest stable kernel version...
Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More
The Linux 6.3 stable kernel is likely to be released later today so here is a reminder about the most exciting aspects of this spring kernel release...
Libreboot 20230423 Allows A Few More Boards To Run On Fully Open-Source Firmware
Libreboot as the downstream of Coreboot focused on ensuring 100% open-source system firmware support without any lurking binary blobs is out this Sunday with a new feature release...
Improved Linux Power Savings For Intel Haswell/Broadwell Laptops In 2023
It's been just shy of ten years since Intel launched their Haswell processors that were very successful at the time and was followed by Broadwell. While Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers are primarily concentrated on recent and future Intel hardware platforms, occasionally there is an improvement worth mentioning for mature platforms like Haswell and Broadwell. A new patch series this week will help with some minor graphics power-savings for those still running a nearly decade old Intel Linux laptop...
Flashrom Splits Into Two For This Firmware/ROM Flashing Utility
The Flashrom project that serves as an open-source firmware/ROM flashing utility not only for system BIOS/UEFI on motherboards but also capable of flashing firmware for various network / GPU / storage controller cards and other programmable devices has decided to effectively split into two...
Google Continues Working On More Linux HDCP Bits
Google engineers continue working on enhancing the Linux infrastructure around supporting High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) for Chrome OS...
Mesa 23.0.3 Released With Another Batch Of Fixes
Mesa 23.0.3 was released on Friday as the newest stable release for this collection of open-source user-space GPU driver components...
Redesigned Flathub Site Launches For Flatpak Apps
A redesigned version of the Flathub website has launched for this weekend's Linux App Summit. Flathub remains the centralized website for exploring and finding new Flatpak sandboxed Linux apps...
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Performance Looking Very Good For Intel Arc Graphics
Mesa's Zink driver that implements OpenGL atop the Vulkan API has for a while been in wonderful shape for open-source AMD Radeon graphics and even in decent shape for the NVIDIA proprietary driver stack while it's also been getting into more robust shape for use on Intel's dedicated graphics cards...
KDE Developers Focused On Tackling Many Bugs This Week
KDE developers were quite busy this week... In addition to shipping KDE Gear 23.04, lots of bug fixing took place this week with around half of Plasma's VHI priority bugs being addressed...
Manjaro 22.1 "Talos" Released With Various Updates
Building off December's release of Manjaro 22.0, this Arch Linux based distribution is out now with its next iteration...