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A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today propose the introduction of a Linux Motion Control "LMC" subsystem for drivers that could control devices like CNC machines and 3D printers...

Linux Fu: USB Everywhere  Hackaday

SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and there is also now a public road-map concerning future development plans...

NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

Going into beta just under one month ago was the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux driver that brought initial support for GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics cards as well as Vulkan driver improvements, Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) support with multiple displays, GPU overclocking exposed by default, and various other refinements to this official NVIDIA Linux driver. Out today is the NVIDIA 570.124.04 stable Linux driver release...

NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes  Phoronix

Merged yesterday to FFmpeg Git is an initial AV1 RTP packetizer and depacketizer in working to support the tentative AV1 RTP specification...

New Anubis Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, NAS, and ESXi x64/x32 Environments  GBHackers

NVIDIA stable driver 570.124.04 released for Linux with VRR for multiple displays and various bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

OpenSSF Released Security Baseline for Linux Projects  CybersecurityNews

Wilkens: Open source tech shouldn't open doors to cyberattacks  FleetOwner

The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...

Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...

Top 5 Linux Security Best Practices Every Admin Must Know  ITPro Today

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