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Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 21:24
Mozilla announced today that they will be ending 32-bit Linux support for the Firefox web browser in 2026...

Xiaomi Redmibook Laptops To See Better Support With Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 20:44
The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle will present better support for Xiaomi Redmibook laptops thanks to a WMI driver being queued into the x86 platform drivers "-next" branch for providing better handling of the keyboards found with these laptops...

Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 19:00
Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in their Radeon Software for Linux releases. This indeed appears to have effectively spelled the end to their AMDVLK driver with Mesa's RADV taking the cake...

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 Released For Security Vulnerability Exploit Detection

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 18:29
Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 has been released. LKRG is a project providing runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and is able to detect security vulnerability exploits against the running kernel...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 18:21
As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_object extension...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 18:04
As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch...

RISC-V Zalasr Support Now Under Review For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 17:35
Linux kernel patches for supporting RISC-V's Zalasr ISA extension are now under review. This extension provides "real" load acquire/store release instructions for RISC-V processors...

How to Check Exit Status for Command in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 09/05/2025 - 14:09
The post How to Check Exit Status for Command in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When working on a Linux system, every command you run returns a status code (also called an exit status or

The post How to Check Exit Status for Command in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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