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Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration...

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API  Phoronix

DISA STIG for Amazon Linux 2023 is now available  Amazon Web Services

Don't switch to these 5 Linux distros when you finally leave Windows 10  MakeUseOf

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 846: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming  Hackaday

Microsoft's Upcoming Windows 11 25H2 Battles Linux In Benchmark Showdown  HotHardware

Fwupd 2.0.15 Adds Support for NVIDIA ConnectX-6, ConnectX-7 and ConnectX-8 NICs  9to5Linux

CIQ to Accelerate AI and HPC Workloads with NVIDIA CUDA  insidehpc.com

Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Members  insidehpc.com

SpecFive Launches the Strike, a Meshtastic-Ready Raspberry Pi CM4 "Handheld Linux Workstation"  Hackster.io

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds...

Everything In A Linux Terminal  Hackaday

I swapped my favorite Linux desktop for System76's COSMIC alpha - and I have zero regrets  ZDNET

TUXEDO Computers Now Supports Fully Automated Installations of Debian 13  9to5Linux

Linux botnet ‘Luno’ unleashes advanced DDoS capabilities  SC Media

A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems...

Hyprland 0.51 Wayland Compositor Adds Fully Configurable Trackpad Gestures  9to5Linux

Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor...

Never Used the Linux sed Command? Try These 9 Examples  How-To Geek