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6 Best Linux Boot Loaders

Tecmint - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:31
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When you turn on your machine, immediately after POST (Power On Self Test) is completed successfully, the BIOS locates the configured bootable media, and reads

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Mesa 23.1.8 Released While Waiting On Mesa 23.2

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:00
Mesa 23.1.8 was released on Wednesday as yet another bi-weekly stable release for the Mesa 23.1 release as that series drags on while waiting for Mesa 23.2 to materialize...

GNOME 45 Released With New Apps, New Activities Indicator

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 04:30
GNOME 45 is out as stable today as the latest six-month update to this open-source desktop environment that will be powering the likes of Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora Workstation 39...

Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 01:13
The latest set of patches for the Wine Wayland driver have been posted for review that continue working on enabling native Wayland support for this open-source software that allows Windows applications and games to be enjoyed under Linux...

Intel To Further Collaborate With Red Hat, Canonical & SUSE For Intel-Optimized Linux Distros

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 00:35
Intel announced this morning on the second day of their Innovation 2023 conference that they are collaborating with software vendors such as Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE for providing Intel-optimized Linux distributions...

Project Amber Officially Launches As The Intel Trust Authority

Phoronix - Thu, 09/21/2023 - 00:35
Last year Intel announced Project Amber as an effort to verify the trustworthiness of clouds. Project Amber was talked up as "an innovative service-based security implementation" for the remote verification of the trustworthiness of compute assets. Project Amber is now rolling out as the Intel Trust Authority...

XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 09/20/2023 - 22:29
There's just under one month to go now until the X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC) returns to A Coruña, Spain for the annual development conference focused on open-source graphics drivers (Mesa), Wayland, and related Linux display/graphics infrastructure although the X.Org Server itself hasn't received much attention in recent years. Here's a look at some of the planned talks for the exciting XDC 2023...

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