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System76 Pangolin Linux laptop updated with Ryzen 7 7840U processor and 16.1 inch display  Liliputing

The RISC-V architecture updates were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel ahead of the v6.9-rc1 release this Sunday...

Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines  Phoronix

While there is AOMP for OpenMP device offloading based on the LLVM/Clang compiler, less talked about and not as feature-rich is the AMDGCN back-end within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) that is also worked on for OpenMP device offloading capabilities to Radeon GPUs. Squeezing in for the upcoming GCC 14.1 stable release is GFX1103 support for AMD APUs with RDNA3 integrated graphics...

Loongson continues enabling more kernel functionality for their LoongArch processor port for the upstream Linux kernel. With Linux 6.9 they sent out today a set of patches enabling more features for this Chinese CPU architecture...

LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

System76 release upgraded Lemur Pro laptop, plus a desktop sale now on  GamingOnLinux

The latest LibreOffice drawing code has enabled support for making use of multi-threaded 3D rendering...

New AcidPour Wiper Targeting Linux Devices Spotted in Ukraine  Infosecurity Magazine

Due to some games checking the graphics card's vendor ID and matching to NVIDIA then just assuming it's NVIDIA's official (proprietary) driver in use, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver has added a workaround to allow concealing the vendor ID in order to bypass NVIDIA-specific checks such as for the driver version in use...

System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop gets updated with Intel Meteor Lake processors  Notebookcheck.net

Linux Operating System Market Size Is Anticipated To Increase Throughout The Predicted Period 2023-2029 At ...  WhaTech

Implementing Risk Compliance and Management in Linux Systems: A Practical Guide  Security Boulevard

AcidPour Attacking Linux Systems Running On x86 Architecture  CybersecurityNews

BOLT that was upstreamed into LLVM in 2022 by Facebook/Meta allows for optimizing the layout of binaries as a post-linking step to yield increased performance. BOLT like Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) first requires the profiling step to generate perf recordings to feedback in for the optimization process, but the gains can be significant...

AMD on Thursday published AOMP 19.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler focused on delivering the latest OpenMP device offloading support for their Radeon GPUs and Instinct accelerators...

Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one  The Register

Change Default Web Browser in Ubuntu [Beginner's Tip]  It's FOSS

With the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem changes sent out today for the Linux 6.9 kernel, there is support for larger console fonts to better handle today's ~4K displays...

Linux 6.9 To Allow Larger Frame-Buffer Console Font Size For Today's 4K Displays  Phoronix