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Upstreamed for Linux 6.8 is the experimental Xe kernel graphics driver that is a modern replacement to the "i915" Direct Rendering Manager driver. The Xe kernel driver targets Tigerlake graphics and newer while it won't be until Lunar Lake / Xe2 when it aims to become the default driver for Intel iGPU/dGPU graphics. For the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel merge window are more feature changes and fixes to this new open-source Intel kernel graphics driver...

On-disk format change beckons for early adopters of Bcachefs  The Register

On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs  The Register

The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK_EXT_shader_object and VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extensions. Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa...

The Servo web engine project has put out a new blog post that outlines all of their accomplishments made during the course of February...

Today's the day! KDE MegaRelease 6 is out for shipping Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 apps...

KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Privacy-First Linux Distro Tails 6.0 Releases With Debian 12 Bookworm Base  It's FOSS News

The post How to Fix “bash: curl: command not found” Error first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re a Linux user and you’ve ever encountered the error message “bash: curl: command not found” or “bash: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory”

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The post Tomb – A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Tomb is a free open-source, small, powerful, and simple tool for encrypting files on GNU/Linux. At the time of this writing, it comprises a shell

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Daniel Almeida with Collabora has posted a rewritten of the VP9 codec library code within the Linux kernel's Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) subsystem. In using Rust rather than the existing C code, this should yield better memory safety and better fend off potential issues within the existing code...

Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Kernel Code Rewritten In Rust For Better Memory Safety  Phoronix

Continuing to bring-up the Wine Wayland driver for offering native Wayland support without X11/XWayland, Alexandros Frantzis opened the pull request today for enabling basic OpenGL support...

Tails 6.0 Linux distribution: The ultimate privacy shield to thwart 'Big Brother'  BetaNews

Crafting Cutting-Edge AI Assistants with Ubuntu  Linux Journal

Blog Theme - Details  Oracle

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU  Phoronix

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU  Phoronix

By default the AArch64 kernel on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions tend to default to a standard 4K page size but for newer AArch64 hardware especially in the server/HPC space, there can be great benefits to using a 64K page size. As it's been a while since I last ran any 64-bit ARM 4K vs. 64K kernel page size benchmarks, while having remote access to the NVIDIA GH200 I ran a fresh comparison for looking at the performance advantages to switching over to a 64K page size kernel. These new 64K kernel numbers are shown alongside the recent AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon CPU reference benchmark results for a look at how the 4K vs. 64K page size affects the overall computing landscape.

Ahead of this week's big KDE Plasma 6.0 release, the KWinFT project forked from the KDE KWin compositor code is re-branding as Theseus' Ship...