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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

The post Scalpel – Powerful Tool to Recover Deleted Files on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

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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The post Caprine – Facebook Messenger Desktop App for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

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

Last week saw Plasma 6.0.1 for an initial batch of bug fixes for this major desktop environment that debuted the week prior. Out today is Plasma 6.0.2 with another round of bug fixes that have been addressed over the past week...

KaOS Linux 2024.03 Is Out to Deliver a Stable KDE Plasma 6 Experience  9to5Linux

VUSec and IBM Research Europe today announced Speculative Race Conditions (SRCs) as a as a new class of vulnerabilities where thread synchronization primitives using conditional branches can be microarchitecturally bypassed on speculative paths using a Spectre-V1 attack. The researchers have dubbed CVE-2024-2193 as GhostRace and is said to affect all major CPU vendors...

The Cloud Outgrows Linux, And Sparks A New Operating System  The Next Platform