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Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver...

KDE Gear 26.04.1 is now available as the first maintenance update for the KDE Gear 26.04 application collection.

One week after the Copy Fail vulnerability, a new Linux local privilege escalation bug has been made public. This time around there are no patches or CVEs yet for this "Dirty Frag" vulnerability as the embargo was broken early and thus the security researcher went ahead and published earlier than anticipated...

Luckfox has expanded its Linux SBC lineup with the new Aura, a compact board based on the Rockchip RV1126B processor. Similar to the earlier Pico Pi and Lyra Pi series, it combines a Raspberry Pi-sized form factor with a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, dual MIPI CSI interfaces, and 4K H.264/H.265 video support. […]

Star Labs' StarFighter Linux laptop is now available with Intel and AMD options, coreboot firmware, LVFS updates, and a 16-inch display.

The cat command is pretty useful for reading, creating, and concatenating files. While the tac command also works similarly to the cat command, which outputs the last line first.

Built on Debian Trixie, Synex aims to cut post?install busywork with sensible defaults, app choices up front, and a clean KDE Plasma experience.

The KDE project released KDE Gear 26.04.1 today as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 26.04 series of this open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and the Linux ecosystem.

While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.

Traefik Proxy 3.7 adds production-ready Ingress NGINX migration support, new TLS certificate visibility, and Gateway API 1.5.1 updates.

The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 while preparing 24.04-2.0, targeting a newer Morph Browser stack with Qt 6 work.

Building multi-threaded Python 3.14+ from source on Debian Forky using Clang 19.1 enables high-performance, free-threaded execution (no GIL). Using clang-19 with optimized flags (-O3, -flto) and linking against libatomic1 (Debian/Ubuntu) ensures maximum performance and thread safety, crucial for taking advantage of modern multi-core architectures.

The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

The Mesa 26.1 open-source graphics stack has been released today as the first major point update to the Mesa 26 series, introducing new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers.

Inkscape 1.4.4 has been released today as the fourth maintenance update to the Inkscape 1.4 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Out with the old; in with the new. Gerald Pfeifer’s nearly seven?year run as chair ends with SUSE veteran Jeff Mahoney moving into the role.

When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12 brings fixes across the compositor, Files, Settings, Store, Terminal, and Edit apps.

Korn shell (or KSH) is a UNIX shell (that complies with POSIX 2) developed in the late 1980s by David Korn at Bell Labs, way earlier than Bash shell.