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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Improves WireGuard Support, Console Graphics Stack  9to5Linux

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

NVIDIA's Cloud Gaming Service GeForce NOW Has an App on Linux  It's FOSS News

A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...

Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock  9to5Linux

Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver...

Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver  Phoronix

LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...

Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes  Phoronix

Saying no to Windows 11 just got easier - Operese automatically transfers your Windows 10 files and settings to Linux  BetaNews

Should I Use Full Linux Functionality on My Chromebook?  How-To Geek

GLOBAL GROUP's Golang Ransomware Attacks Windows, Linux, and macOS Environments  CyberSecurityNews

Fortifying Ubuntu’s Root with sudo‑rs: How Rust Reinforces Privilege Escalation  Linux Journal

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A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setting interfaces...

Cyber threats surge with rise in infostealers & Linux attacks  SecurityBrief Australia

Lilbits: Hello Google Pixel 10, Goodbye Clear Linux, and Kobo adds Instapaper integration  Liliputing

Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa  Phoronix

Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...

Intel announces end of Clear Linux OS project, archives GitHub repos  BleepingComputer