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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).

Phoronix

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...

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Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs

Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light holiday weeks. Sent out today were the DRM fixes for Linux 6.19-rc5 that includes a fix for broken support for newer NVIDIA GPUs on the Nouveau open-source driver...