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Adding to the growing set of features for NVK as this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa, the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate fragment shading rate extension is now supported...

While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes  Phoronix

AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates  Tom's Hardware

Ubuntu Linux: Install the Suricata Intrusion Detection System  The New Stack

5 reasons Arch Linux and Valve teaming up just makes sense  XDA Developers

Wayland Protocols 1.38 is out with three new staging protocols...

Linux: Create System Backups With rsnapshot  The New Stack

Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the mainline Linux kernel. On Friday the fourth iteration of those patches for review were published as it hopefully is closing in on landing within the mainline kernel...

AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...

SIOS Technology Launches Enhanced LifeKeeper for Linux Version 9.9.0  SDxCentral

KDE neon 6.2 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

With Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake systems now shipping and the Linux support largely settled, Intel open-source software engineers have begun ramping up their support for Panther Lake due out in a year...

Intel Panther Lake H EDAC Support Posted For Linux  Phoronix

A Friday evening job posting has confirmed and reinforced details around their future AI GPU compute stack, presumably what's been referred to as the Unified AI Software Stack...

Following this week's release of KDE Plasma 6.2, the KDE developers are busy addressing some of the initial fallout from this desktop update as well as more feature work aimed at Plasma 6.3...

AMD Pushes Out 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver On Linux, Allowing Efficient L3 Cache & Core Frequency Allocation  Wccftech

As another interesting AMD announcement this week following their Advancing AI event yesterday where they launched the EPYC 9005 series and other new hardware, they've continued with a few more soft announcements in the lead-up to the OCP Global Summit happening next week. The latest interesting tid-bit is their plans to incorporate Project Caliptra into their products beginning in 2026...

Android could soon have a native Linux terminal app  Android Police