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DRM lease protocol support finally merged for GNOME Wayland - great for VR fans  GamingOnLinux

It was just a few months back that Intel introduced a Gaudi "2C" variant of Gaudi2 to their open-source Linux driver. This variant might be for some export model or otherwise a hyperscaler/customer-specific revision or something along those lines. Now appearing within new Habana Labs driver patches for the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel are patches for a new Gaudi 2D variant...

Intel Introduces New Gaudi "2D" Product Support To Their Linux Driver  Phoronix

For those continuing to rely on the GCC 12 series open-source compiler that was introduced as stable in 2022, GCC 12.4 is out today as the newest bug fix release...

Intel Lunar Lake, Panther Lake CPUs & Battlemage Discrete GPUs Receive Enhanced Support With Linux 6.11  Wccftech

Another weeks worth of random DRM-Misc-Next changes have been queued ahead of next month's Linux 6.11 merge window...

Monochrome TV Mode Coming To Linux 6.11, Added By Raspberry Pi Developers  Phoronix

Theseus Ship is the X11/Wayland compositor previously known as KWinFT developed by Roman Gilg as a fork of KDE Plasma's KWin. Pulling in patches from KWin in this week's KDE Plasma 6.1 release, Theseus Ship 6.1 is now available...

EasyOS 6.0 Release: A New LTS Series Kicks Off  It's FOSS News

Diamorphine Rootkit Exploiting Linux Systems In The Wild  GBHackers

The post How to Install Cinnamon Desktop and Basic Software in Arch Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Arch Linux is a lightweight, flexible, and independently developed Linux distribution that can be used for practically any role. By

The post How to Install Cinnamon Desktop and Basic Software in Arch Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The Linux Security Journey — EGID (Effective Group ID)  Medium

Zhaoxin Shijidadao CPU support was upstreamed today into the GCC 15 compiler codebase. Zhaoxin as a reminder is the joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai Municipal Government for creating x86/x86_64-compatible processors for the Chinese market...

Linux User and Group Management  The New Stack

Kali Linux 2024.2 Released with New Tools and GNOME 46  Security Boulevard

SUSE unveils new features for Linux, cloud, & edge portfolio  IT Brief Australia

As written about this morning, AMD announced ROCm 6.1.3 with multi-GPU support, beta support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot compatibility, and TensorFlow framework qualification support. The upstream ROCm code on GitHub as of writing continues pointing only to the prior ROCm 6.1.2 software but there is now a Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver offering up ROCm 6.1.3...

Radeon Software For Linux 24.10.3 With ROCm 6.1.3  Phoronix

SUSE upgrades its distros with 19 years of support - no other Linux comes close  ZDNet

5 reasons why MacOS and Linux go together like a knife and fork  ZDNet