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Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 17:47
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 17:00
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 16:00
Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...

UFW Firewall: How to Install, Configure, and Use It on Ubuntu/Debian

Tecmint - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:00
The post UFW Firewall: How to Install, Configure, and Use It on Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Since computers are connected to each other, services are growing rapidly, with examples such as email, social media, online shopping,

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NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 15:00
The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors...

GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:26
GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues...

Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00
Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...

Haiku OS Adds Support For More AMD Polaris GPUs & Other Changes In April

Phoronix - Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:00
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their April 2025 progress report...

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