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Nouveau Kernel Driver Changes For Supporting NVK Vulkan ...  Phoronix

Merged for Mesa 23.3 is support for the VirGL code to handle accelerated AV1 video decoding within guest virtual machines...

GRUB2 and Linux bootloaders in general don't get too much attention these days as for the most part they "just work" well and most Linux distributions prefer to keep their GRUB menu hidden if at all possible. But at the same time it's an often overlooked area and not an area where there is an eager and glamorous open-source community behind it. However, it looks like Red Hat at least may have some new ideas brewing and they are hiring now to improve the Linux bootloader experience...

Red Hat Is Hiring To Improve The Bootloader  Phoronix

The consulting firm KDAB that is known for their work on the Qt toolkit has released KDGpu as a new library that is a thin wrapper around the Vulkan API and aims to allow for more productive GPU programming...

Oracle, SUSE and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux ...  TechCrunch

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Open Source Summit Europe 2023  Yahoo Finance

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Open ...  PR Newswire

Embedded Linux Market Share, Size and Forecast to 2030 ...  Digital Journal

YY3568 ARM mini PC runs Linux or Android  Geeky Gadgets

The post How To Install PIP to Manage Python Packages in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Pip (recursive acronym for “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python“) is a cross-platform package manager for installing and managing Python packages (which can be

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Debian Linux is Joining The RISC-V Bandwagon  How-To Geek

In addition to Intel posting initial AVX10.1 patches for the GCC compiler, Intel has also begun sorting out their AVX10 plans for the LLVM/Clang compiler stack...

After a rather busy Patch Tuesday with the AMD Inception vulnerability and Intel Downfall going public, the Linux kernel saw a new bug fix merged today for a different issue... It turns out original AMD Zen 1 processors could end up leaking data in certain conditions after a divide by zero occurs...

Linux Lands Fix For AMD Zen 1 Bug That Could Leak Data After A ...  Phoronix

Getting AAA games working in Linux sometimes requires concealing ...  Ars Technica

Getting AAA games working in Linux sometimes requires concealing your GPU  Ars Technica

With yesterday's disclosure of the Intel Downfall speculative execution vulnerability and the updated CPU microcode and Linux kernel patches I have been very busy testing the performance impact of this mitigation. Here are some initial numbers and workloads I have found to be impacted as a result of this security mitigation for Skylake to Icelake/Tigerlake client and server processors.

Mine is Better: Why Linux is better than macOS or Windows  Techaeris

Following yesterday's disclosure of the AMD "Inception" security vulnerability and the Linux kernel patches merged for reporting the mitigation status as well as the kernel-based handling for earlier generation Zen CPUs, the Family 19h microcode mitigations have now been picked up by the linux-firmware.git repository...