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Building off the release of NetBSD 10.0 that arrived for Easter this year and incorporated a half-decade of work, NetBSD 10.1 is out right before Christmas as the first update to this BSD operating system series...

AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support  Phoronix

How to work with text colors on Linux  Network World

System76 Pangolin Linux Laptop now available with Ryzen 9 8945HS and up to 96GB RAM  Liliputing

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Final Fantasy XIV, Nioh: Complete Edition and more for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

MemryX MX3 M.2 Module Delivers Nice AI Performance With A Great Software Experience Review  Phoronix

While there are a growing number of startups offering AI accelerators, many of them are more or less vaporware and the other big challenge even among those actually shipping products is their software stacks are very premature or an outright heaping mess. Surprisingly there's a company known as MemryX that was started out of the University of Michigan AI research that is both shipping actual hardware -- and at a decent price point -- and where the software stack is a pleasant experience that works on both Windows and Linux. Here are my initial experiences in testing out the MemryX M.2 module that features four of their in-house MX3 AI accelerator chips.

Hackers Exploiting Linux eBPF to Spread Malware in Ongoing Campaign  HackRead

The 4 easiest ways to test Linux on your old PC before Windows 10 support runs out  ZDNet

VMware Workstation Pro Update Brings Linux Fixes  OMG! Ubuntu!

System76 Just Upgraded Its Linux Pangolin Laptop  How-To Geek

On Tuesday the UEFI Forum released the UEFI 2.11 specification alongside the Platform Initialization (PI) 1.9 specification...

Intel’s newest B580 GPU underperforms last-gen Arc Alchemist cards in Linux benchmarks – likely due to early teething pains  Tom's Hardware

Multiple GStreamer Vulnerabilities Impact Linux Distributions Using GNOME  CybersecurityNews

Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times...

Xfce 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing  The Register

The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...

Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers  Phoronix

These Are The Most Useful Linux Apps I Discovered in 2024  It's FOSS News