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With the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle, the RISC-V architecture code is seeing kernel-mode FPU. This kernel floating point support is needed for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and particular its DCN display code. In turn this should allow recent AMD Radeon graphics cards to work on RISC-V with display support using the company's open-source driver stack...

RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support  Phoronix

It's been a long journey but Valve's Samuel Pitoiset has now enabled VK_EXT_shader_object support by default with Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" for the upcoming Mesa 24.1 release...

DTrace used to be one of the Solaris features long sought after by Linux developers but over time the Linux kernel tracing capabilities have improved and Oracle has been supporting DTrace on Linux now for years without too much fanfare. DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 was released this past week as the latest iteration of this user-space implementation that builds off the Linux kernel tracing functionality like BPF...

Oracle Releases DTrace 2.0.0-1.14 For Linux Systems  Phoronix

Discord Overlay for Linux adds PulseAudio / PipeWire integration  GamingOnLinux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 7th, 2024  9to5Linux

For those running the official Raspberry Pi OS on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 series single board computers, the Mesa V3DV Vulkan driver is now shipping by default to provide for a better out-of-the-box experience...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS aims to improve the energy efficiency of the Linux distribution on laptops  Notebookcheck.net

KDE's Xaver Hugl on why Wayland explicit sync is such a big deal  GamingOnLinux

German government switches 30 thousand PCs to Linux and LibreOffice  Mezha.Media

German state Schleswig-Holstein ditches Windows for Linux  Computing

Check out the Manjaro Linux lead talk about the Orange Pi NEO gaming handheld  GamingOnLinux

Arch Linux changes vm.max_map_count to match Fedora, Ubuntu for better gaming  GamingOnLinux

Heroic Games Launcher v2.14.1 Hotfix #1 fixes Proton on Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

5 Linux commands you must know to keep your device running smoothly  ZDNet

5 Linux commands you must know to keep your device running smoothly  ZDNet

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Install ADB and Fastboot on Ubuntu and other Linux  It's FOSS

Linux 6.9-rc3 is released and most notable are the Bcachefs fixes to which Torvalds quipped, "if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap." Plus various other fixes throughout...