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Port .NET Framework workloads to Linux with Amazon Q Developer, Part 2: Test Projects  AWS Blog

Intel initially detailed Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) back in mid-2023 as extensions to double the number of general purpose registers and add other performance features. In the time since they have done a lot preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers for the new APX ISA features while finally today they sent out an initial set of patches for preparing the Linux kernel for APX processors...

Intel Posts Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions  Phoronix

New Backdoor Auto-color Linux Targets Systems in US and Asia  HackRead

In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...

EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert  Phoronix

Minigalaxy Update Brings Easy Classic Windows Gaming to Linux  How-To Geek

A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today propose the introduction of a Linux Motion Control "LMC" subsystem for drivers that could control devices like CNC machines and 3D printers...

Linux Fu: USB Everywhere  Hackaday

SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and there is also now a public road-map concerning future development plans...

NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements  9to5Linux

Going into beta just under one month ago was the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux driver that brought initial support for GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics cards as well as Vulkan driver improvements, Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) support with multiple displays, GPU overclocking exposed by default, and various other refinements to this official NVIDIA Linux driver. Out today is the NVIDIA 570.124.04 stable Linux driver release...

NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes  Phoronix

Merged yesterday to FFmpeg Git is an initial AV1 RTP packetizer and depacketizer in working to support the tentative AV1 RTP specification...

New Anubis Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, NAS, and ESXi x64/x32 Environments  GBHackers

NVIDIA stable driver 570.124.04 released for Linux with VRR for multiple displays and various bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

OpenSSF Released Security Baseline for Linux Projects  CybersecurityNews

Wilkens: Open source tech shouldn't open doors to cyberattacks  FleetOwner

The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...

Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...