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This Cloning Trick in Linux Will Save You Permission Headaches  How-To Geek

While the Raspberry Pi 5 debuted last September, the mainline Linux kernel support for this popular single board computer continues to lag behind the state of Raspberry Pi's downstream kernel. SUSE has been working to upstream various Raspberry Pi 5 driver support while now Raspberry Pi engineers have also begun the trek toward upstreaming their kernel graphics driver support...

Intel Battlemage display drivers coming soon for Linux — functional drivers to focus on power efficiency first  Tom's Hardware

In addition to Mutter seeing Wayland DRM lease protocol support merged, another long-in-development patch series hit GNOME Shell this morning: accent color support!..

Merged today into GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the Wayland DRM lease protocol to allow for nice virtual reality (VR) headset support for GNOME on Wayland...

GNOME Merges Wayland DRM Lease Protocol For Better VR Handling  Phoronix

AMD ROCm 6.1.3 update enables multi-GPU support, beta-level support for Windows Subsystem for Linux  VideoCardz.com

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...