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Following the December launch of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the first major COSMIC desktop release, System76 software engineers have continued making improvements to their Rust-based desktop environment...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gpsd-minimal, jmc, kernel, kernel-rt, and net-snmp), Debian (apache-log4j2 and dcmtk), Fedora (exim, gpsd, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, python-biopython, and rust-lru), Mageia (firefox, nss and thunderbird), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, gpsd-minimal, jmc, kernel, net-snmp, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (net-snmp), SUSE (chromium, go, harfbuzz-devel, kernel, libsoup, rust1.91, rust1.92, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (apache2, avahi, and python-urllib3).
Deploying vLLM for LLM inference and serving on NVIDIA hardware can be as easy as pip3 install vllm. Beautifully simple just as many of the AI/LLM Python libraries can deploy straight-away and typically "just work" on NVIDIA. Running vLLM atop AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware though has traditionally meant either compiling vLLM from source yourself or AMD's recommended approach of using Docker containers that contain pre-built versions of vLLM. Finally there is now a blessed Python wheel for making it easier to install vLLM without Docker and leveraging ROCm...
I traced 7 essential PC features back to the high-powered workstations of the 1980s.
Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted...
In November 2025, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) released version 2.0 of the Linux Professional Institute DevOps Tools Engineer certification. Covering a series of tools used to develop and deliver software in a collaborative manner, the content of this exam extends ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #01: Getting “Getting Started” Started appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
In November 2025, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) released version 2.0 of the Linux Professional Institute DevOps Tools Engineer certification. Covering a series of tools used to develop and deliver software in a collaborative manner, the content of this exam extends ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #01: Getting “Getting Started” Started appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
A lot of HID subsystem updates have been queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February. There is a lot of new hardware support on the way along with quirks for some existing hardware support ranging from laptop keyboard issues to enabling support for more PS4/PS5 guitars under Linux...
Deepin Linux 25.0.10 introduces upgrades to the File Manager, a smarter system installer, and multiple usability improvements across the desktop.
Patches are now positioned to go into the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle for supporting Intel discrete GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems...
A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too...
Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...
DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver...
Intel’s Core 3 (Wildcat Lake) chips are on the way aiming to replace the Intel N100 – but to be the next budget computing champ they’ll need to match it on price, not just beat it on performance. At CES in January, Intel barely mentioned its budget chips. This was presumably so all attention and headlines were given to its powerful and pricey ‘Panther Lake’ chips, like the ones powering the revived Dell XPS 14 with Ubuntu (also announced as CES). Of course, the N100’s popularity was a happy accident anyway, and hawking decently performing budget chips that are as […]
A new Snap Store scam campaign abuses expired publisher domains to bypass trust signals and deliver malicious app updates.
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