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SteelCloud Software Operationalizes STIG Compliance for Red Hat Linux  PR Newswire

While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in large part from common code. The most recent fascinating aspect is the old AMD GFX6/GFX7 era GPUs seeing official Vulkan 1.3 support that has been deemed conformant by Khronos...

Mesa RADV Driver Delivers Conformant Vulkan 1.3 Support For Old AMD GFX6/GFX7 GPUs  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has remained very active implementing more features and fixes as we approach the end of 2024...

Yet another feature merging into Mesa 24.3 with the code branching (feature freeze) yet to take place is Vulkan FIFO presentation mode support under Wayland...

Small security tweak Torvalds improves Linux performance  Techzine Europe

Near the end of October OpenCL 3.0.17 was released as the newest maintenance update to this low-level compute API for cross-vendor GPUs and other accelerators. The OpenCL Headers and SDK have now been updated for the new revision...

Best Linux distro for Windows users of 2024  TechRadar

Bitcoin-dev Archives Purged From Linux, Re-Homed On Google Groups - "The Defiant"  The Defiant - DeFi News

Microsoft announces Azure Linux 3.0 for AKS preview  Neowin

Anish Kumar: Pioneering Audio Innovations in the Linux Kernel  Siliconindia.com

The post How to Set Up AnyDesk Remote Desktop on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

AnyDesk is a popular remote desktop software that allows users to connect and control other computers remotely. It’s lightweight, fast,

The post How to Set Up AnyDesk Remote Desktop on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

FOSS Weekly #24.45: Firefox-Brave Fight, Linux Security, Mint Desktop Effects and More  It's FOSS

AMD ROCm 6.2.4 is out today as the newest point release for this Radeon and Instinct open-source GPU compute stack...

What happens to Linux when Linus Torvalds dies?  BetaNews

Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases when moving past the upcoming GIMP 3.0 stable...

Linux I/O expert and block/IO_uring maintainer Jens Axboe of Meta has recently revisited his patches around uncached buffered I/O. Back in 2019 the "RWF_UNCACHED" effort was started by Axboe to address a throughput cliff in performance once the page cache fills up. That work faded away but Axboe recently took to crafting a set of fresh patches for implementing uncached buffered I/O and they are showing extremely promising results...

Systemd 257-rc1 is out today as a big feature update for this release that brings many new features and other refinements to this key piece of the Linux operating system stack...

Thanks Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%  The Register

Phishing Campaign Uses Linux VM to Target Windows Devices  Petri.com