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Mesa 25.0 Linux Graphics Stack Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support on RADV, ANV, and NVK  9to5Linux

The Femtofox Pro Is an Ubuntu-Running Single-Board Computer Built with Meshtastic in Mind  Hackster.io

How To Open EXE Files On Chromebook?  About Chromebooks

Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...

BlackLock Ransomware Targets Windows, VMware ESXi, & Linux Environments  GBHackers

Which Was the Best Version of macOS?  How-To Geek

A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support working on recent MacBooks while this code is now undergoing review for hopefully being mainlined in the Linux kernel...

Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs  Phoronix

I Installed Windows on My Steam Deck, and I'll Never Do It Again  How-To Geek

ReKernel: Linux on a 386, again  Adafruit Blog

Rust Integration in Linux Kernel Faces Challenges but Shows Progress  The New Stack

VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust  Phoronix

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust  Phoronix

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another Linux kernel mailing list post today outlining the benefits of Rust and encouraging new kernel code/drivers to be in Rust rather than C...

Whatever Happened to Ubuntu TV? Where Linux Smart TVs Are Now  How-To Geek

One of the most logical paths forward for the Servo web browser engine is making it compelling for embedding within applications as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), WebKitGTK, and other browser engines. Servo developers recently realized though it's around 200 lines of Rust code to embed Servo compared to around 50 lines of C code if targeting WebKitGTK... So improvements are being made to the Servo embedding API...

Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default  Phoronix

Manjaro Linux lead developer Philip Müller has provided a status update concerning the upcoming Manjaro 25.0 distribution release...

Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default  Phoronix