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The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added...
Among the new VFS features expected to land for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE...
Microsoft on Friday released linux-msft-wsl-6.18.20.1 as the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) kernel updated against the Linux 6.18 LTS series...
Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...
A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting...
With paid developers gone and only volunteers remaining, the app has until July 8 to secure funding or fade into irrelevance.
DINUM is ditching Windows for Linux as France pushes every ministry to draft a migration plan away from non-European software.
Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler. While part of the "RDNA 4" family, it's graphics IP version is GFX 11.7 (GFX1170) that is associated with the RDNA 3 family but with some ISA changes to align it slightly more with the newer RDNA 4 graphics IP. While the RDNA 4m AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler patches have been out for two months, the Mesa patches have only been posted this week for enabling the RADV Vulkan driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver support...
There's a way to improve performance of AMD GPUs with 8GB VRAM.
It took a minute -- actually a long minute -- but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a "goodbye." The post EFF Says It’s Quitting TwitterX appeared first on FOSS Force.
Hyprland arrives in Debian 13 (Trixie) backports, giving stable users an official way to install the dynamic Wayland compositor.
Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be running AI-assisted fuzzing on the kernel. Don't outrage yet, as this may not be a bad thing.
Three Linux apps that don't look like they were designed during the 2000s.
Spyware, privacy, and flexibility—these are concerns that everyone shares.
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