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Squad-based tactical RPG 'Zoria: Age of Shattering' released with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Richard Hughes of Red Hat who leads development of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and Fwupd firmware updating utility is currently pondering plans for 2025. Among the ideas he's seeking input from the community is on whether the main focus should be on servers, desktop motherboards, laptops, or other removable hardware/peripherals...

LVFS/Fwupd Ponders 2025 Plans: Servers, Desktop Motherboards & More  Phoronix

The Linux work around atomic consoles and threaded printing remains ongoing. This work is particularly interesting as it's the last major blocker before real-time "RT" kernel support can land. This work sadly isn't ready for the new Linux 6.9 cycle but at least some printk clean-ups are landing for issues discovered during the atomic consoles effort...

Linux 6.9 Cleans Up Printk Code While Preparing For Atomic Consoles  Phoronix

I installed Minikube on my Linux machine | by Ebube Ndubuisi | Mar, 2024  Medium

While the new Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.8 as this modern DRM driver that is opt-in for current generation hardware and aims to be the default for Lunar Lake / Xe2, currently with Mesa you must build the Intel ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D driver code with the "intel-xe-kmd" option to enable compatibility for this alternative kernel driver to i915. With Mesa 24.1 coming next quarter, that Intel Xe kernel driver support will be enabled out-of-the-box...

Mesa 24.1 Enables Intel Xe Kernel Driver Support By Default  Phoronix

Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz has been known for many great Mesa improvements the past several years, especially around Zink for the OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa. Over the past four years he has taken on many great performance optimizations and other significant code undertakings to improve Mesa. Blumenkrantz has picked his latest battle and appears to be around Mesa's Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) interfaces...

David Airlie has submitted all of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates today for Linux 6.9...

Linux 6.9 Graphics Drivers Prepare For RDNA3 Refresh & RDNA4, More Intel Xe Driver Work  Phoronix

Fedora 41's GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org  The Register

postmarketOS is Bringing Systemd to Linux Phones  It's FOSS News

UPT: Universal Package Management Tool for Linux  It's FOSS

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It is not uncommon to accidentally press ‘Shift + Delete‘ on files instead of just ‘Delete‘, due to our natural habits, many of us tend

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Caprine is a desktop application for Linux that allows you to access Facebook Messenger directly from your computer. It provides a convenient way to chat

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New Rust-based Backdoor Attacking Windows and Linux Systems  CybersecurityNews

Building off last November's release of the big OBS Studio 30.0 release, OBS Studio 30.1 debuted today as the newest feature release...

DBOS nabs $8.5M to challenge Linux with a database-powered operating system  SiliconANGLE News

How to mount in Ubuntu  XDA Developers