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Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker...

While more software piles on AI features these days, today's release of the Darktable 4.8 RAW photography software has removed one of its AI features after realizing it only delivers mediocre quality...

Oi Grandad v2, free granular Synthesizer plugin (mac, linux, win) gets a major makeover  Synth Anatomy

VKD3D-Proton 2.13 is now available as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API translation later that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for accelerating D3D12 Windows games on Linux...

Download "Mastering Linux Administration" eBook (worth $39.99) for free  Neowin

With some Linux users not liking the recently showcased new Linux "Blue Screen of Death" for kernel panics, Red Hat engineer Javier Martinez Canillas who has been one of those involved in the new DRM Panic infrastructure showed that it can also be a "black screen of death" if so desired...

Linux Can Have A "Black Screen Of Death" For Kernel Panics  Phoronix

CISA Alert: Urgent Patching Required for Linux Kernel Vulnerability  Security Boulevard

Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers. However, other upstream Mesa developers aren't convinced by the proposal...

Cloud Hypervisor 40.0 is out today for this open-source Rust-written VMM that started off as an Intel software project and evolved into a multi-vendor initiative with backing from the likes of Microsoft, Arm, AMD, and others for a cloud-focused, security-critical virtualization hypervisor...

VMware ESXi subjected to attacks with RansomHub for Linux  SC Media

New Linux Variant Of RansomHub Attacking ESXi Systems  CybersecurityNews

New Linux Variant Of RansomHub Attacking ESXi Systems  CybersecurityNews

How to escape VMware's pricey clutches with Virt-v2v  The Register

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore  How-To Geek

Intel software engineers have been upstreaming the Lunar Lake support for Linux a number of months already and the basics appear in good shape, aside from the Xe2 graphics enablement being an ongoing matter. Much of the rest of the core functionality has appeared to be in good shape ahead of Lunar Lake laptops launching in Q3, but it seems there have been a few missing power management related bits...

Intel Lunar Lake Workload Hints & Power Floor Patches Posted For Linux  Phoronix

Newly merged patches for Mesa 24.2 slightly enhance the default out-of-the-box build experience for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on POWER/PowerPC platforms...

The Intel Xe driver is working on supporting PMT functionality with a new set of patches that may be mainlined for Linux v6.11~6.12...

Best Linux laptops of 2024  TechRadar