The Arduino UNO Q is a new board that runs Debian. Using the Arduino UNO Q allows you to run headless, no monitor, since it does not have an HDMI Port as most other Single Board computers (SBC), but it is a very useful board for learning. Technical Specs Just looking at the UNO Q, as shown in Figure 1, you can see it is a much smaller board compared to a regular SBC. FIGURE 1 The specs are: Module Qualcomm Dragonwingâ„¢... https://www.linux.org/threads/arduino-uno-q-a-debian-linux-board-for-headless-projects.66951/
by George Whittaker Intel’s open-source Linux graphics stack has taken another step forward with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding through Vulkan Video. New code merged for Mesa’s ANV Vulkan driver enables the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension on Intel’s DG2/Alchemist graphics hardware, including Arc A-Series GPUs. The development expands Intel’s Vulkan Video capabilities on Linux and gives applications another standardized way to access the dedicated video encoding hardware found in modern Intel GPUs. AV1 Encoding Arrives in Intel ANV The key change is support for the Vulkan extension VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 in Mesa’s open-source Intel ANV driver. The extension was finalized by the Khronos Group in 2024 and provides a standardized Vulkan interface for hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding. It complements Vulkan Video’s existing AV1 decoding support and means Vulkan can provide both encoding and decoding interfaces for AV1, H.264, and H.265. Intel had previously stated that its Arc graphic
Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors...
Flatpak 1.18.1 is out with security fixes addressing a sandbox escape, local root privilege escalation, path traversal issues, and arbitrary file writes.
Virtualization places a guest system into a separate security domain, typically with less privileges than software running directly on the host. Increasingly, there is interest in creating multiple security domains within a single virtualized system as well. CPU vendors (and software vendors too) are implementing solutions; each of which, of course, is different from all of the others. KVM planes, currently under development by Jörg Rödel, Paolo Bonzini, and others in the KVM community, is an attempt to provide an abstraction layer that makes all of these features available on Linux systems; it is not a small task.
True open hardware—where every component, from processors to firmware, is fully open and freely accessible—remains an elusive goal. Recently, I tested two ARMSoM (Banana Pi) Single Board Computers (SBCs) powered by Rockchip System-on-Chip (SoC) processors. These boards promise AI acceleration, ... Read more The post Morrolinux: The Rocky Road to Open Hardware – ARMSoM and Rockchip appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
GNOME contributor Tobias Bernard has published a blog post that details some of the design team's ideas for the GNOME Shell over the long term: Some of these we have relatively complete plans for, others are more vague ideas that need more research and prototyping. As always, getting things like these implemented depends on developer capacity and interest (and sometimes funding). While each of these ideas may require additional discussion, prototyping, and testing, we (the design team) have collected them all together here to share our longer-term vision and to give each idea more visibility.
Flatpak 1.18.1 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download with various bug and security fixes for the stable Flatpak 1.18 series.
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