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A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining Rust's memory safety and other advantages over C++ / CUDA / HIP...
TUXEDO Computers announces a new Linux kernel concept for the upcoming Debian-based TUXEDO OS operating system, which is now in public beta testing.
Version 5.0 of GNU Poke, a binary-data editor, has been released. This release includes a number of improvements to the Poke compiler, additions to the Poke language, as well as runtime and standard library updates. See below for the full list of changes.
AlmaLinux Board Chair Benny Vasquez tells LinuxInsider how version 10.2 expands hardware support, maintains RHEL compatibility, and gives the community more control over development. The post AlmaLinux 10.2 Breaks From Its RHEL Clone Roots appeared first on LinuxInsider.
The Software Freedom Conservancy has announced that Mark J. Wielaard has been honored with the second annual Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom for his many years of service to software freedom. Mark is one of many key FOSS developers who has designed his career so that his employers have funded much of his FOSS work. Nevertheless, Mark continues his volunteer work after hours as a key contributor who maintains Sourceware — the oldest FOSS collaboration and developer infrastructure hosting site in history. In addition to his work on Sourceware, Wielaard is a member of the DWARF Debugging Standard Committee, the maintainer for Valgrind and elfutils, as well as a contributor to various other GNU projects.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, dracut, freerdp, gnome-remote-desktop, kernel, and nghttp2), Debian (apr-util, docker.io, ironic, neutron, postgresql-15, unzip, and util-linux), Fedora (chromium, jfrog-cli, jrnl, libgsasl, libsoup3, pdns, pdns-recursor, perl-Archive-Tar, php-pear-PHP-CodeSniffer, rust-bat, rust-git-delta, rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool, rust-lsd, rust-pretty-git-prompt, rust-tokei, and stunnel), Gentoo (haveged, HTTP-Daemon, nginx, NTFS-3G, Portage, PostgreSQL, and X.Org X server, XWayland), Oracle (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, dhcpcd, dracut, grafana, iscsi-initiator-utils, kernel, nodejs:24, openssh, osbuild-composer, python-idna, ruby, and ruby4.0), Slackware (proftpd), and SUSE (7zip, afterburn, ansible-lint, bouncycastle, cargo-audit, cargo-c, chromedriver, chromium, containerized-data-importer, dnsdist, dracut-112, ffmpeg-9-libavcodec-devel, firefox, freetype2, git-cliff, glib2, go1.25, go1.26, google-guest-agen
Mozilla Firefox 154 strengthens local network privacy, adds a Manage AI shortcut, improves PDF handling, and expands web platform support.
Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux. Making it all the more surprising besides it coming from ARCTIC Cooling directly was that at the time they didn't even have a fan controller product with USB interface. Well, now it's launched and in turn is a great USB fan controller for Linux systems and retails for just $9 USD.
Mozilla Firefox 154 open-source web browser is now available for download with a new “Manage AI” quick action, support for clearing and updating cached favicons, and other changes.
Lots of KDE’s animations are superfluous resource hogs, but this one in particular has me reaching for the off switch.
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...
AMD's Radeon driver also picks up HDMI 2.1 support, and Apple M3 MacBooks can now boot the kernel.
Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing real-time Linux performance...
The website pairs proprietary programs with free and open-source replacements, then provides useful details to help users compare their options. The post OpenAltFinder Connects Users With FOSS Alternatives to Nonfree Apps appeared first on FOSS Force.
GNU Linux-libre 7.2 kernel is now available for download based on Linux kernel 7.2 and targeted at those seeking 100% freedom for their PCs.
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