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Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE) hardware to deal with HDR video on Linux...

AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support  Phoronix

Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups were shuffled into the tip/tip.git "x86/cpu" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window...

x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM  Phoronix

Mike Blumenkrantz as the lead developer of Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation and working for Valve as part of their Linux graphics team has been spending much time recently optimizing for OpenCL with the Rusticl Gallium3D driver...

‘Auto-Color’ Linux Malware Uses Advanced Stealth Tactics To Evade Detection  Information Security Buzz

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OpenSSF sets baseline security standards for Linux-based software  SC Media

Stealthy Linux 'Auto-color' Backdoor Infests US Institutions  Dark Reading

Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...

Why Linux Is the Perfect OS for Your Mini PC  MSN

RX 9070 XT: a card spotted on Linux running at 3.24 GHz and 330W!  Overclocking.com

A new Linux backdoor is hitting US universities and governments  TechRadar

Seafarix Join Automotive Grade Linux  PR Newswire

Seafarix Join Automotive Grade Linux  WV News

AMD EPYC Turin Power Profile Selection Impact On Performance & Efficiency  Phoronix

Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options. The AMD P-State driver being used by default now for the EPYC 9005 series processors on Linux 6.12+ and paired with Power Profile option tuning can deliver a nice boost to server energy efficiency with only modest impact to the performance. Today's article are some complementary numbers I carried out recently on a Supermicro server looking at more of the Power Profile Selection options.

What's new in Ubuntu 24.04.2? Kernel 6.11, better graphics, and more  ZDNet

GRUB2 Vulnerabilities Exposes Millions of Linux Systems to Cyber Attack  CybersecurityNews