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Rust drivers expected to become more common in Linux kernel  The Register

Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel  The Register

Typosquatted packages delivering malware to Linux and macOS systems  Security Magazine

The New Rust-Written NVIDIA "NOVA" Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15  Phoronix

For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience. The very initial NOVA driver code was sent out on Sunday for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 9th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March...

Linux 6.14-rc6 Released With More Panther Lake Additions, AMD Microcode Signing Fix  Phoronix

4 operating systems to avoid when upgrading from Windows 10  XDA Developers

On Friday AMD sent out another batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver feature patches destined for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. One notable feature in this late pull request is introducing a new "high precision" mode to be found with the GFX950 target, which is believed to be the upcoming Instinct MI350X series...

AMD Preparing "High Precision" Mode For Upcoming Instinct MI350X (GFX950)  Phoronix

Intel Preps Linux For "Platform Temperature Control" With Lunar Lake & Panther Lake SoCs  Phoronix

Intel's new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) feature is a hardware-based solution to manage skin and/or board temperatures of a device. Platform Temperature Control will adjust the SoC power/performance if the temperature thresholds are exceeded, which are programmed by the device manufacturer. But new Linux patches posted allow controlling the Intel Platform Temperature Control feature found with new Core Ultra Lunar Lake laptops and upcoming Panther Lake hardware...

This Linux Terminal Tool Supercharges the history Command  How-To Geek

Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle...

More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone  Phoronix

ALGOL 68 is an imperative programming language that's more than a half-century old and went on to inspire and influence other programming languages. It has its place in programming language history but a recently published compiler front-end for ALGOL 68 has been decided for now at least not to be upstreamed into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

For two years now the Intel IVPU accelerator driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that's part of the Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" CPUs and newer. Only this week though was the firmware for the Intel NPUs now upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...

Intel NPU Firmware Files Upstreamed To linux-firmware.git  Phoronix

5 Reasons Ubuntu Is Not the Best Windows Replacement  How-To Geek