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New Bifrost Malware Variant Targets Linux Systems, Mimics VMware to Evade Detection  BNN Breaking

Linux users beware: New Bifrost malware variant poses imminent threat  BetaNews

Amazon EKS announces support for Amazon Linux 2023  AWS Blog

New Bifrost malware for Linux mimics VMware domain for evasion  BleepingComputer

HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver  Ars Technica

Daily Deal: The Complete Linux Training Bundle  Techdirt

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion  The Register

AMD's Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Bid Rejected, Leaving Linux Users in Limbo  BNN Breaking

Arch Linux CachyOS Benchmarks Of x86-64-v3 & x86-64-v4 Repositories  Phoronix

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution aims to be a "blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution" that is aggressive with its performance optimizations. CachyOS takes to leveraging compiler optimizations like Link-Time Optimizations (LTO), the BORE scheduler, and also offering package archives compiled for x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 in allowing the distribution's packages to be catered toward newer Intel and AMD processors. In this article is a comparison of CachyOS packages from their main archive, the x86-64-v3 optimized packages, and then the x86-64-v4 wares that can be beneficial for modern Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC / AMD Ryzen systems.

Deploy Next.js 14 SSR apps with AWS Amplify Hosting's Amazon Linux 2023 Support | Amazon Web Services  AWS Blog

Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz is back at it working on some exciting improvements to Mesa and in particular for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation...

CNCF Graduates Falco Project to Improve Linux Security  Security Boulevard

Building upon the existing AV1 encode support for RDNA3 GPUs within the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, AV1 Long-Term Reference "LTR" support is now enabled within Mesa 24.1...

HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver  Tom's Hardware

The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation  GamingOnLinux

Linux-based ctrlX OS support for congatec Computer-on-Modules ...  eeNews Europe

Mesa 24.1 to Include NVK, Open-Source Vulkan Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Enhancing Linux Gaming  BNN Breaking

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time  GamingOnLinux

The GNOME Prompt terminal emulator in-development by Christian Hergert with a focus on GPU-acceleration and being a very speedy and beautiful terminal option has been renamed to Ptyxis...