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Big GPU & Kernel Update Headed to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on February 12. Ubuntuโ€™s engineers periodically backport the Linux kernel and graphics drivers included in interim releases to the current long-term support (LTS) version. The next update delivers components from Ubuntu 25.10, released in October 2025. This means the Ubuntu 24.04.4 HWE brings the Linux 6.17 kernel and Mesa 25.2.7, a sizeable leap over the 25.0.x series that was delivered in the 24.04.3 HWE update last August. New versions of Intel VAAPI driver (2.4.1), libva, [โ€ฆ]

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Wine 11.0-rc5 Brings 32 Bug Fixes

With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes for the past two weeks...

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[$] READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust

The READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() macros are heavily used within the kernel; there are nearly 8,000 call sites for READ_ONCE(). They are key to the implementation of many lockless algorithms and can be necessary for some types of device-memory access. So one might think that, as the amount of Rust code in the kernel increases, there would be a place for Rust versions of these macros as well. The truth of the matter, though, is that the Rust community seems to want to take a different approach to concurrent data access.

LWN.net

Security updates for Friday

Security updates have been issued by Debian (pdfminer and vlc), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and microcode_ctl), Slackware (libtasn1), SUSE (apptainer, curl, ImageMagick, libpcap, libvirt, libwget4, php8, podman, python311-cbor2, qemu, and rsync), and Ubuntu (gnupg, gnupg2, gpsd, libsodium, and python-tornado).

LPI

Learning Materials for DevOps Tools Engineer Certification, v2

Get ready for the new version 2 of the exam We are excited to announce the release of Learning Materials for the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) DevOps Tools Engineer certification on our Learning platform along with the new version 2.0 ... Read more The post Learning Materials for DevOps Tools Engineer Certification, v2 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).

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AMD Enabling New GFX12.1 & More RDNA 3.5 Hardware Blocks With Linux 6.20~7.0

AMD today sent out their latest pull request to DRM-Next of new AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes they are looking to get into the next kernel cycle, which will either be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely be called Linux 7.0. Notable with this week's pull request is enabling a lot of new GPU hardware IP blocks, including GC/GFX 12.1 as a new addition past the current GFX12.0 / RDNA4...