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The Intel Battlemage discrete graphics support is beginning to come together for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack as the successor to DG2/Alchemist. In addition to all the Xe2 work for what's found with Lunar Lake, more Battlemage Linux kernel and user-space driver work has been appearing recently. The milestone crossed today is the initial Battlemage "BMG" platform support being merged for the Mesa 24.2 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers...

Intel Battlemage Platform Support Begins Landing In Mesa 24.2  Phoronix

As part of Intel's Flexible Return Event Delivery (FRED), Intel open-source software engineers are now working on improving Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) source reporting for the Linux kernel...

Linux Kernel 6.8 Reaches End of Life, Users Should Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.9  9to5Linux

Building off the PowerVR kernel driver merged in Linux 6.8 and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.0 that are both focused on Imagination's newer PowerVR Rogue architecture, Google engineers are working on enabling open-source driver support for the PowerVR Rogue GX6250 as found within the MediaTek MT8173 SoC...

Rhino Linux Gets its First Release of 2024 After Developer Burnout  It's FOSS News

Last year the KDAB consulting firm typically associated with Qt work published KDGpu as a thin Vulkan wrapper to make it easier leveraging this graphics API. Out today is KDGpu v0.5 with many improvements to this Vulkan wrapper...

New Linux patches spotted for Intel's Lunar Lake and Xe2 ray-tracing support  PC Guide - For The Latest PC Hardware & Tech News

Linux in the Metaverse: Building Virtual Worlds With Open-Source Tools  ITPro Today

Linux OS Recent News  ITPro Today

CISA Alerts Federal Agencies to Patch Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw  The Hacker News

Intel Pushes Out New Linux Patches For Lunar Lake & Xe2 GPU Ray-Tracing Enablement  Wccftech

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While VKD3D-Proton that is bundled with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) is the most common source for mapping Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API for Windows games on Linux, Wine's VKD3D upstream continues to be developed. Out today is VKD3D 1.12 as the newest feature release for this open-source D3D12-on-Vulkan implementation...

Transmission 4.0.6 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Various Fixes  9to5Linux

GstarCAD 2024 for Linux is available  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

GstarCAD 2024 for Linux is available  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...

A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution. Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud...

Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors  Phoronix