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The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories...
A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers...
KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 in now providing some AVX2-only kernels too...
Netrunner 26 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.3.6 desktop environment with Linux kenrel 6.16.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: LiteLLM compromise; systemd controversy; LLM kernel review; OpenBSD and vibe-coding; Rust trait-solver; Pandoc. Briefs: Rspamd 4.0.0; telnyx vulnerability; Fedora forge; SystemRescue 13.00; Servo 0.0.6; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to light with the implementation...
If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...
With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's DRM-Next tree of queuing new graphics/display/accelerator feature code ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. As presumably the last AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature pull ahead of Linux 7.1, today's pull request from AMD contains some noteworthy final enhancements...
Michael Meeks has posted an angry missive about changes at the Document Foundation. What has really happened is not entirely clear, but it seems to involve, at a minimum, the forced removal of all Collabora staff from the foundation. There has been a set of "thank you" notes to the people involved posted in the foundation's forums. The Document Foundation's decision to restart LibreOffice Online almost certainly plays into this as well. Details are fuzzy at best; we will be working at providing a clearer picture, but that will take some time.
The release drops curses in favor of Textual, but that's just the highlight.
Raspberry Pi has announced a fresh round of price rises for its range of popular single-board computers, owing to industry-wide memory costs. It’s also launched a new version of the Pi 4 with 3GB RAM to sweeten the bad news, albeit somewhat. This is the second price rise announced for Raspberry Pi in recent months. The RRP of many Raspberry Pi boards was bumped in December, adding up to $20 to the cost of Raspberry Pi 5 boards versus the original price. Price increases this time around are far more dramatic. The Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB) originally sold at […]
Nobody stepped up to maintain a key package, and its security baggage eventually led to this.
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables...
Arch Linux April 2026 ISO includes Linux kernel 6.19, systemd 260, updated firmware, and refreshed core packages from March.
Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...
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