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Thanks to the work of Valve Linux graphics driver developer Samuel Pitoiset, the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is now the first within Mesa supporting the new Vulkan pipeline binary extension...

KDE Plasma 6.1.5 Released with More Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.1 Users  9to5Linux

The Intel Arrow Lake Linux graphics driver support appears largely wrapped up following a patch for properly handling the necessary GSC firmware requirements and building off all the existing Meteor Lake Arc Graphics driver code paths. There are a number of Arrow Lake PCI device IDs already present for the graphics while a new one is being added now to the kernel drivers...

Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

Last year Canonical delivered an Intel TDX "tech preview" for Ubuntu 23.10 to experiment with using Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) found on the latest Xeon server processors. With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS they began shipping a formal TDX software stack and now have rolled out an update to that software stack as a stable release update...

U.S. CISA adds SonicWall SonicOS, ImageMagick and Linux Kernel bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities...  Security Affairs

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11 Terminal File Managers to Explore on your Linux System  It's FOSS

Some long-rotting code in Mesa has been flushed out today... Mesa 24.3 is now 11.6k lines of code lighter after removing support for the OpenMAX (OMX) API that was implemented as a Gallium3D state tracker long ago and hasn't seen any activity in recent years and the upstream OpenMAX standards work halted more than one decade ago...

OneFileLinux: Not so much a distro as a pointer  The Register

OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition  The Register

Last month I wrote about Intel Linux engineers working on a new Efficiency Latency Control feature for their uncore driver. This ELC option allows for adjusting the behavior of the Intel uncore for efficiency versus latency characteristics. Those Intel ELC patches to the TPMI uncore driver are now queued up for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle...

Excitement is building that the real-time kernel "PREEMPT_RT" support might finally be ready for the mainline kernel as soon as the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. It will be interesting to see if that long-awaited day finally comes this month but recently noted patches have now been queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/rt" branch ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window...

Latest "sched/rt" Commits Point To PREEMPT_RT Potentially Being Ready For Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Linux Distribution deepin 23 Officially Released  TechBullion

The creator of Lutris has joined up with Playtron for PlaytronOS  GamingOnLinux

Partnering for Security: Qualys Solutions for Microsoft Azure Linux in AKS  Qualys

5 best Linux distributions for gamers in 2024  ZDNet

New Retroid Pocket gaming handhelds officially support Linux  Boing Boing

EmuDeck 2.3 Beta brings a new unified UI and multi language support  GamingOnLinux