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AMD ROCm 4.1.1 Released To Clarify Some HIP Bits  Phoronix

Toward the end of March was the AMD ROCm 4.1 release with a few new features. Released today is ROCm 4.1.1 with seemingly no real code changes but just to clarify two items around ROCm's HIP...

It was just a few days ago was the talking of the VirtIO-GPU Vulkan driver looking to be upstreamed into Mesa and now this Google "Venus" project has indeed landed...

Google's VirtIO-GPU "Venus" Vulkan Driver Merged Into Mesa 21.1  Phoronix

If you want to be a Linux admin, here are 12 courses to check out  TechRepublic

Hands-On with Kali Linux on the Raspberry Pi 4: A Match Made in Heaven  LXer

While the independent effort to get the Apple M1 ARM-based SoC working under Linux has just been happening for a few months, with the upcoming Linux 5.13 cycle the very preliminary support for Apple's M1 and initial M1-powered devices looks to land...

Out today is version 4.15 of the open-source Xen hypervisor. The focus of Xen 4.15 is on "broader accessibility, performance and security" with a number of noteworthy additions...

How to Customize Crostini Linux Terminal on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

Xen Project ships version 4.15 with Focus on Broader Accessibility, Performance, and Security  PRNewswire

BleedingTooth: Google drops full details of zero-click Linux Bluetooth bug chain leading to RCE  The Daily Swig

Werner Koch announced the availability today of GnuPG 2.3 as the start of the (fairly stable, effectively production ready) test releases leading up to the GnuPG 2.4 stable update...

GCC 10.3 is out today as the latest stable release of the GNU Compiler Collection, weeks ahead of the GCC 11.1 feature release as the first stable version of GCC 11...

5 Exciting Linux Distro Updates to Look Forward to in 2021  MUO - MakeUseOf

5 Exciting Linux Distro Updates to Look Forward to in 2021  MakeUseOf

Capsule8 Announces 196% ARR Growth Over 2020  GlobeNewswire

AMD engineers have a patch pending to improve the idle power consumption for Radeon RX 5000 "Navi 1x" GPUs on Linux...

AMD Finally Flipping On ASPM For Navi 1x To Lower Power Consumption  Phoronix

Red Hat engineers spearheaded the work on Debuginfod for being able to fetch debuginfo/sources from centralized servers for a project to cut-down on manually having to install the relevant debug packages manually on a system as well as that occupying extra disk space and just being a hassle. The Fedora project is now getting their Debuginfod server off the ground and for Fedora Linux 35 are planning to make use of it by default...

Fedora 35 Looking To Make Use Of Debuginfod By Default  Phoronix