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Code Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 For Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size  Phoronix

Haiku OS developer X512 has managed a rather impressive feat: porting NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules to Haiku. Not only did he get NVIDIA's official Linux kernel modules running on Haiku but he also ported the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver to be able to run atop the NVIDIA kernel driver interface...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver Ported To Haiku OS, Mesa NVK Adapted To Run On Top  Phoronix

KDE developers continue pushing ahead with new feature development on the Plasma 6.4 desktop to further refine Plasma 6...

Wine 10.4 is out tonight as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

GNOME 48 Released with Major New Features  OMG! Ubuntu!

AMD has been on a software / container / documentation spree recently around ROCm and today are announcing another software addition to the ROCm portfolio: AITER...

Microsoft's newest open-source contribution to the Linux kernel being proposed is... Hornet, a Linux security module (LSM) for providing signature verification of eBPF programs...

Microsoft Proposes "Hornet" Security Module For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...

Albabat Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS via GitHub Abuse  GBHackers

ProRes Comes to Windows and Linux in DaVinci Resolve’s Latest Update  No Film School

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that include a fix for cache randomization with kvmalloc inadvertently being inadequate due to accidentally using the same randomization seed...

With the Linux 6.14 stable kernel likely debuting on Sunday, the Linux 6.15 merge window will then open for kicking off the next development cycle. There's a lot of exciting changes and new features building up ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window...

Albabat Ransomware Evolves to Target Linux and macOS  Infosecurity Magazine

Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced "rpi-image-gen" as a new tool to help customers in crafting customized software OS images...

Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix For A Two Year Old Regression Causing A 30% Performance Drop  Phoronix

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant performance hit...

AMD Announces Open-Source "GAIA" For GenAI But Currently Windows-Only  Phoronix

AMD on Thursday announced GAIA for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a means of easily running local large language models (LLMs) on Ryzen AI PCs with the XDNA NPU. GAIA provides an easy software demonstration for Ryzen AI capabilities but sadly for the moment is limited to Microsoft Windows platforms...