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Pop!_OS Cosmic DE gets Nvidia improvements, myriad new features in latest pre-alpha update  Notebookcheck.net

Junio Hamano announced the release today of Git 2.45-rc0 as the first test release toward the next version of this distributed version control system. Notable with Git 2.45 is beginning to land SHA1 and SHA256 interoperability work for repositories...

Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times  Phoronix

The Godot game engine has spent the past number of months collaborating with Google and The Forge to bring performance optimizations to their Vulkan back-end. While the immediate focus was on bettering Godot's Vulkan performance for Android mobile devices, this work will ultimately benefit all Vulkan platforms/users...

How to Install a VPN on Linux  Privacy News Online

Announced back in February was Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built atop Mir and developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek. Today he announced version 0.2 as the latest feature update to this Wayland compositor with tiling window management...

While systemd 255 last year introduced a "blue screen of death" inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it's not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where user-space is alive. But the user-space code does little good in case of a kernel panic and similar issues bringing the system to a halt. Set to be introduced now with Linux 6.10 is a parallel "blue screen of death" like error presenting experience with the introduction of the DRM panic handler...

Linux 6.10 Preps A Kernel Panic Screen - Sort Of A "Blue Screen of Death"  Phoronix

As the first new release to Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack in about one month for this OpenCL and Level Zero compute support, Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 was released this morning with much improved OpenCL/OpenGL sharing and interoperability on Linux, out-of-the-box support for the Xe kernel graphics driver, new optimizations, and many other changes...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.13.29138.7 Brings Improved OpenCL/OpenGL Sharing  Phoronix

Setting Up A Minimal Linux Distro From Scratch…  Medium

It's been nearly one year since the last Tow-Boot release while debuting on Thursday was Tow-Boot 2023.07-007 for this open-source project derived from the U-Boot bootloader...

Yaskawa MOTOMAN NEXT robots run on Wind River Linux, NVIDIA Jetson  Robot Report

Akira Ransomware Gang Extorts $42 Million; Now Targets Linux Servers  The Hacker News

It was just one month ago that open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso was beginning work on reverse-engineering and writing a Rockchip NPU driver following his work on the Vivante NPU IP open-source driver support. He quickly began seeing the driver working and with very viable performance and now today he's shared another update on this Rockchip open-source NPU driver effort...

Overnight Intel released their oneVPL GPU Runtime 2024Q1 release for this media stack component to their oneAPI software collection...

Get Dark Mode in VLC on Ubuntu and Other Linux  It's FOSS

Why financial infrastructure needs to be open-source — Hyperledger  Cointelegraph

Team Fortress 2 64bit support released, plus Vulkan for Linux via DXVK  GamingOnLinux

How to Install PIA VPN on Linux in 3 Different Ways  Privacy News Online