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We're closing in on the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release likely in little more than one week (30 November barring any delays) and today's batch of x86 platform driver updates is bringing some new hardware support as well as some notable consumer device fixes/improvements...
This $13.37 jar of cranberry sauce can help open source.
Wireshark 4.6.1 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with various bug fixes and updated protocols. Here’s what’s changed!
Don't forget to unmount that ISO after install.
A set of Linux kernel patches posted back in October for rewriting the kernel's memory-mapped concurrency ID code for some nice performance wins looks like it will land for Linux 6.19. This is the code that prominent Intel engineer Thomas Gleixner found to yield up to an 18% improvement for the PostgreSQL database. My testing of this "mm/cid" code has also shown some nice performance wins too...
VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month's feature freeze for the upcoming Wine 11.0 stable release...
Plus Grease Pencil motion blur, performance improvements, and enhanced rendering features.
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home directory...
Along with getting the NVIDIA GSP fully booted and initialized for Ampere GPUs with the Nova driver code coming to Linux 6.19, this next kernel version is also beginning to make preparations for eyeing next-generation NVIDIA GPU support on this open-source driver...
Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has turned out remarkably well. Rusticl performance has evolved quite well for this Rust-based OpenCL driver and it continues tacking on new features / OpenCL extensions as well as working gracefully with more Mesa drivers. Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst presented on some of the recent accomplishments for this driver back at XDC2025...
The latest feature enablement work happening by Intel for the Linux kernel with next-generation Diamond Rapids server processors are the adjustments to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for readying the new CPU ISA capabilities for a virtualized world...
Rust based new commands or classic Linux commands?
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Hardware architectures; Fedora Flatpaks; Debian hardware support; sockaddr structure; NUMA nodes; Homebrew. Briefs: LightDM security; Debian Libre Live; Xubuntu postmortem; Blender 5.0; Git 2.52.0; Rust in Android; Thunderbird 145; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
I've covered installing Arch Linux on a system, but installing it on VirtualBox is a bit more tricky. Technically, there is only one very important aspect of installing on it on VirtualBox that is different. I have tested this quite a bit for installations and cloning a machine also works well. Download To start, you need the ISO file for the installation. The website is at ‘https://archlinux.org/download/’. Towards the bottom of the page is a listing that is sorted by... https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-arch-linux-in-virtualbox.57435/
Immich 2.3, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, adds multilingual OCR models and introduces maintenance mode.
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