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FOSS Weekly #25.22: Microsoft's Vim Alternative, Kernel 6.15, UBXI Desktop, End of Ubuntu 20.04 and More  It's FOSS

Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Mythbuntu: What Happened to Ubuntu for TV?  How-To Geek

PumaBot Malware Targets Linux IoT Devices  Bank Info Security

PumaBot Malware Targets Linux IoT Devices  GovInfoSecurity

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub  Phoronix

Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...

The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers...

Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds  Phoronix

The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 Linux Laptop Unveiled with 128 GB RAM, HDR Display  9to5Linux

Microsoft’s Linux-friendly approach to C# scripting is planned for .NET 10  devclass

Arc B770 spotted? Four new Intel Battlemage GPU IDs appear in Linux Mesa graphics driver  Tom's Hardware

Arrival of Linux 6.15 hails end of 486-class CPUs  theregister.com

Big Linux Patch Series Shakes Up The Scheduler Code For Anyone With Only One CPU Core  Phoronix

For anyone still happening to have only one CPU core in their system and running a uni-processor "UP" kernel build without any simultaneous multi-processing (SMP) support enabled, a big patch series posted today for the Linux kernel may affect you...

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.0.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa 25.0 series that is also the end of the road for that Q1'2025 release branch...

While the "core/entry" changes for the Linux kernel merge window aren't typically too exciting to write about, there is a new optimization for all CPU architectures worth mentioning for the Linux 6.16 cycle...

New PumaBot targets Linux IoT surveillance devices  Security Affairs

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 is a Linux laptop with desktop power and optional water cooling  BetaNews