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Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx...

Linux Foundation Launches Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance  IoT World Today

In a Valentine's Day blog post, System76 has outlined how they are nearing the release of their alpha build of the COSMIC desktop environment that they have been developing as part of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

The Asahi Linux project working on the AGX Gallium3D driver for Mesa has now managed to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. This is a big upgrade for the Linux OpenGL support on the Apple M1 as previously only OpenGL 4.1 was exposed...

OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver  Phoronix

CIQ Offers Long-Term Support for Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.8 and 9.2 Images Through AWS Marketplace  PR Web

NES modder somehow gets 30-year-old console running Linux  Dexerto

Ubuntu 'command-not-found' tool can be abused to spread malware  BleepingComputer

Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase...

The best Linux distros for 2024 #Linux @AndroidAuth « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and ...  Adafruit Blog

As an important notice to those with new TUXEDO laptops such as the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 powered by the Ryzen 7 7840HS, installing their DKMS-based driver package can be very important if aiming to achieve maximum performance.

Paradox confirm no Linux support for Prison Architect 2 but investigating Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While there is already the work underway on allowing the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel in part to leverage its memory safety potential, a proposal was sent out this morning for a new "SandBox Mode" for the Linux kernel to also increase the memory safety of C code within the kernel...

"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety  Phoronix

A new feature coming with the display engine on Intel Lunar Lake's Xe2 graphics is an adaptive sharpening filter that has minimal power and performance impact...

Intel Prepares For New Adaptive Sharpening Filter Coming With Lunar Lake's Xe2 Graphics  Phoronix

With the Nouveau driver support for using the NVIDIA GSP (GPU System Processor) that was added in Linux 6.7, that is only used by default on the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada" GPUs and moving forward where otherwise there is no accelerated support. The NVIDIA GSP is present in the GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" and RTX 30 "Ampere" hardware too, but not used by default unless setting a module option to enable the mode. However, a new patch is pending that would allow kernel builders to optionally enable the GSP mode by default...

Intel's oneDNN Deep Neural Network Library used for building deep learning applications is preparing another release that continues going heavy on performance optimizations and preparing for future Intel hardware generations...

Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap  The Register

Damn Small Linux returns after damn large release gap  The Register