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Linux's 3 biggest strengths are also it's biggest weaknesses The reasons why everyone loves Linux are the same exact reasons why others avoid it.

[How-to Geek] Linux's 3 biggest strengths are also it's biggest weaknesses

#Linux #OpenSource

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Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver (Collabora blog) In July, Collabora announced the Rust-based Tyr GPU driver for Arm Mali GPUs. Daniel Almeida has posted an update on progress with a prototype of the driver running on a Rock 5B board with the…

[LWN.net] Racing karts on a Rust GPU kernel driver (Collabora blog)

#GNOME #LinuxKernel #Rust

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Linux 6.18 Sees Late Improvements For Xbox Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, & Alienware Laptops We're closing in on the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release likely in little more than one week (30 November barring any delays) and today's batch of x86 platform driver updates is bringing some new…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.18 Sees Late Improvements For Xbox Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, & Alienware Laptops

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Direct3D-to-Vulkan Library vkd3d 1.18 Brings HLSL Improvements vkd3d 1.18, the Direct3D-to-Vulkan translation library used by Wine, adds HLSL constant folding, more legacy bytecode ops, and expanded shader targets.

[Linuxiac] Direct3D-to-Vulkan Library vkd3d 1.18 Brings HLSL Improvements

#Wine #OpenSource

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[$] BPF and io_uring, two different ways BPF allows programs uploaded from user space to be run, safely, within the kernel. The io_uring subsystem, too, can be thought of as a way of loading programs in the kernel, though the programs in…

[LWN.net] [$] BPF and io_uring, two different ways

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Linux 6.19 Slated To Land "mm/cid" Rewrite That Has Very Positive Performance Potential A set of Linux kernel patches posted back in October for rewriting the kernel's memory-mapped concurrency ID code for some nice performance wins looks like it will land for Linux 6.19. This is the…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Slated To Land "mm/cid" Rewrite That Has Very Positive Performance Potential

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3 things you can do with your NAS's SD card slot (besides ignoring it) SD cards and NAS servers go together like peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.

[How-to Geek] 3 things you can do with your NAS's SD card slot (besides ignoring it)

#Linux #OpenSource

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PHP 8.5 Introduces URI Extension, Pipe Operator, and Syntax Improvements PHP 8.5 introduces a new URI extension, the pipe operator, and key syntax upgrades, delivering faster performance and cleaner code.

[Linuxiac] PHP 8.5 Introduces URI Extension, Pipe Operator, and Syntax Improvements

#Linux #OpenSource

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VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month's feature freeze for the…

[Phoronix] VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

#Wine #OpenSource

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Security updates for Thursday Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.18, container-tools:rhel8, expat, grub2, haproxy, idm:DL1, kernel, kernel-rt, lasso, libsoup, libssh, libtiff, pcs, podman,…

[LWN.net] Security updates for Thursday

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5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history Explore the rise and fall of these groundbreaking Linux systems, and how their legacies live on.

[How-to Geek] 5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history

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Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where…

[Phoronix] Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification

#Linux #OpenSource

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Deploy Your Thanksgiving Dinner with Cranberry sOSS This $13.37 jar of cranberry sauce can help open source.

[It's FOSS] Deploy Your Thanksgiving Dinner with Cranberry sOSS

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Wireshark 4.6.1 Released with Updated Protocol Support and Various Bug Fixes Wireshark 4.6.1 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with various bug fixes and updated protocols. Here’s what’s changed!

[9to5Linux] Wireshark 4.6.1 Released with Updated Protocol Support and Various Bug Fixes

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Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs Along with getting the NVIDIA GSP fully booted and initialized for Ampere GPUs with the Nova driver code coming to Linux 6.19, this next kernel version is also beginning to make preparations for…

[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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7 virtual machine mistakes to avoid Don't forget to unmount that ISO after install.

[How-to Geek] 7 virtual machine mistakes to avoid

#Linux #OpenSource

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Blender 5.0 Released with HDR Support, Video Sequencer Overhaul, and ACES Workflows Plus Grease Pencil motion blur, performance improvements, and enhanced rendering features.

[It's FOSS] Blender 5.0 Released with HDR Support, Video Sequencer Overhaul, and ACES Workflows

#Linux #OpenSource

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Rusticl Has Turned Out Remarkably Well For Open-Source OpenCL For Mesa Drivers Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has turned out remarkably well. Rusticl performance has evolved quite well for this Rust-based OpenCL driver and it continues…

[Phoronix] Rusticl Has Turned Out Remarkably Well For Open-Source OpenCL For Mesa Drivers

#Rust #OpenSource

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Intel Preps Linux KVM For Diamond Rapids' AVX10.2 & Expanded AMX The latest feature enablement work happening by Intel for the Linux kernel with next-generation Diamond Rapids server processors are the adjustments to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for…

[Phoronix] Intel Preps Linux KVM For Diamond Rapids' AVX10.2 & Expanded AMX

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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FOSS Weekly #25.47: AI Mode in Firefox, Nitrux 5, GNOME Panel, Rust Alternative Commands and More Linux Stuff Rust based new commands or classic Linux commands?

[It's FOSS] FOSS Weekly #25.47: AI Mode in Firefox, Nitrux 5, GNOME Panel, Rust Alternative Commands and More Linux Stuff

#GNOME #Linux #FOSS

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2025 Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Hardware architectures; Fedora Flatpaks; Debian hardware support; sockaddr structure; NUMA nodes; Homebrew. Briefs: LightDM security; Debian Libre…

[LWN.net] [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2025

#Debian #Fedora #Rust

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Installing Arch Linux in VirtualBox I've covered installing Arch Linux on a system, but installing it on VirtualBox is a bit more tricky. Technically, there is only one very important aspect of installing on it on VirtualBox that is…

[Linux.org] Installing Arch Linux in VirtualBox

#ArchLinux #Linux

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Immich 2.3 Adds Multilingual OCR Models Immich 2.3, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, adds multilingual OCR models and introduces maintenance mode.

[Linuxiac] Immich 2.3 Adds Multilingual OCR Models

#Linux #OpenSource

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MEMINSPECT Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help In Memory Analysis / Debugging A patch series sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list proposes "MEMINSPECT" as a new mechanism for helping with memory analysis...

[Phoronix] MEMINSPECT Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help In Memory Analysis / Debugging

#Linux #LinuxKernel

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The new Slimbook has KDE Plasma and a Ryzen 9 CPU A lot of power in a sleek form factor.

[How-to Geek] The new Slimbook has KDE Plasma and a Ryzen 9 CPU

#KDE #KDEPlasma

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Rust-Based Arm GPU Kernel Driver "Tyr" Begins Running GNOME & Basic Games Initially upstreamed into the Linux 6.18 kernel is Tyr as a Rust-based GPU kernel driver for Arm Mali hardware. This is in effect a Rust alternative to the Panthor DRM kernel driver for newer Arm…

[Phoronix] Rust-Based Arm GPU Kernel Driver "Tyr" Begins Running GNOME & Basic Games

#GNOME #Linux #LinuxKernel

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Red Hat Project Hummingbird For CVE-Free, Ready-to-Deploy Container Images Project Hummingbird aims to remove the worry and streamline the deployment of secure container images for cloud-native teams. The post Red Hat Project Hummingbird For CVE-Free, Ready-to-Deploy…

[Foss Force] Red Hat Project Hummingbird For CVE-Free, Ready-to-Deploy Container Images

#RedHat #FOSS #Security

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Xen 4.21 Hypervisor Arrives With New PDX Compression Xen 4.21 open-source type-1 hypervisor adds a new PDX compression algorithm, updated toolchain requirements, and improvements across x86, Arm, and RISC-V.

[Linuxiac] Xen 4.21 Hypervisor Arrives With New PDX Compression

#Linux #OpenSource

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Early Comments Open on the Cyber Resilience Act The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is probably the biggest legislative intervention ever made in the beleaguered field of computer security. In a unique regulatory move, the public now has access to the…

[LPI] Early Comments Open on the Cyber Resilience Act

#Linux #InfoSec

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Xen 4.21 Released With AMD CPPC & Resizable BAR Support Xen 4.21 is out today as the newest feature release for this open-source hypervisor backed by AMD, Arm, AWS, and other organizations. Plus with Xen's use within automotive environments, Ford and…

[Phoronix] Xen 4.21 Released With AMD CPPC & Resizable BAR Support

#Linux #OpenSource

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