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There's a follow-up to yesterday's surprising story of Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux and that ARM graphics driver work where she led reverse engineering and development of the Asahi Gallium3D and HoneyKrisp Vulkan drivers within Mesa. She's now working at Intel on their Linux graphics drivers...

The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel  Phoronix

The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs that sport the GPU System Processor (GSP) for easing the hardware initialization and management of modern NVIDIA GPUs within the mainline kernel. This Rust-written kernel driver now has patches pending for booting up the NVIDIA GSP to its RISC-V active state...

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State  Phoronix

QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualization stack...

Bazzite adds support for Ayaneo 3 and the AOKZOE A1X with work towards MSI Claw A8 and Legion Go 2  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 10-14 brings lots of fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Orphaned Linux drivers for floppy disks gets first patch of any significance in three years - cleanup effort implies floppies spared the axe for a few more years  Tom's Hardware

Linux Foundation Backs Open Source Agentgateway To Build First AI-Native Data Plane  Open Source For You

Installing Fedora Linux in the Simplest Possible Way  It's FOSS

As another very unfortunate setback for the Asahi Linux project moving forward after Hector Martin left the project as did Asahi Lina pausing work on open-source Apple driver development, Alyssa Rosenzweig announced today that she is stepping away from the project following the successes in bringing up Apple M1 and M2 graphics drivers for Linux...

With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux  Phoronix

AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in  VentureBeat

These 5 lightweight operating systems can make any slow PC fast  MakeUseOf

APT36 Targets Indian BOSS Linux Using Weaponized .desktop Shortcut Files  GBHackers News

A number of yet-to-be-completed changes/features have been delayed from Fedora 43 to Fedora 44 while permission is granted for a few features to still land late in the Fedora 43 cycle...

I break my Linux install all the time and it’s part of the fun  xda-developers.com

Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Media Foundation To Release Book On Securing Linux Computer Systems  MEMRI | Middle East Media Research Institute

Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale  MarketScreener

CIQ Expands Hardened Rocky Linux to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud  WebProNews