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Sudo Linux Bug Allows Hackers To Execute Commands As Root User  Fossbytes

While merging of the Flang "f18" Fortran compiler into the LLVM source tree was delayed in January, this is still looking like the most exciting Fortran open-source compiler in development...

Firmware developer Michał Żygowski of embedded consulting firm 3mdeb has provided a convenient overview over the current state of AMD Coreboot support for booting with this open-source alternative to conventional proprietary BIOS...

Intel's Linux graphics stack has seen a lot of major changes in recent years besides the addition of their "ANV" Vulkan driver. The Intel Linux OpenGL driver saw their new Gallium3D driver, NIR has come about as the new intermediate representation used across their drivers, and other fundamental changes and improvements. The latest underlying work is introducing a pattern-based code generator for their graphics compiler...

Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator  Phoronix

Intel's Linux Graphics Stack Is Close To Landing A Code-Generator Generator  Phoronix

Linux Fu: The Linux Shuffle  Hackaday

Linux Gaming: Getting to know Lutris, the ultimate Linux game launcher  GameCrate

Last week we published benchmarks of the Motile M141, Walmart's private-label tech branch, and the M141 being a Ryzen 3 3200U powered laptop that has been retailing for just $199 USD. In those initial benchmarks was an extensive look at the Windows vs. Linux performance while this article today is looking at the performance of this AMD Ryzen 3 laptop against a number of old and new Intel laptops, all tested using a daily snapshot of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Codeplay announced last year they were working on an open-source layer for running Intel's oneAPI and Data Parallel C++ on NVIDIA GPUs and as part of that supporting Khronos' SYCL on NVIDIA hardware. Today they revealed more details on this achievement and new software layer...

Sudo Bug Lets Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users Run Commands as Root  Internet

NVIDIA has kicked off February by releasing the 440.59 Linux driver as their newest stable driver...

NVIDIA 440.59 Linux Driver Brings DP MST Audio, PRIME Sync For Linux 5.4+  Phoronix

NVIDIA 440.59 Linux Driver Brings DP MST Audio, PRIME Sync For Linux 5.4+  Phoronix

VPNs will change forever with the arrival of WireGuard into Linux  ZDNet

Landing in the LLVM compiler infrastructure code-base in January was finally an AMD Zen 2 scheduler model optimized for the latest-generation AMD processors when compiling code with Clang using the -march=znver2 targeting. However, now some important fixes to this scheduler model have landed...

Oracle's Daniel Kiper provided an update on the GRUB boot-loader efforts and their hopes on sticking to a yearly release cadence...

Hikari is a stacking window manager with tiling support that has also work-in-progress code for serving as a Wayland compositor. However, unlike most X11 window managers and Wayland compositors being focused on Linux systems, Hikari is BSD-focused...

OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 Is Out With Linux Kernel 5.5 And Zstd Compression  Fossbytes

Amazon Linux Users Win a Major Migration Reprieve  Computer Business Review