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Linux 6.9 Features: DM VDO, AMD Preferred Core, Intel FRED & Larger Console Fonts

Phoronix - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 18:00
Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle.

Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years For Ubuntu Pro Customers

Phoronix - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 17:53
Ubuntu Long-Term Support (LTS) releases have been support for 10 years of updates by Canonical while now that has been extended to 12 years but only for Ubuntu Pro customers going for their legacy support add-on. This 12 year support is extended retroactively going back to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

[$] The rest of the 6.9 merge window

LWN.net - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 17:08
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch was released on March 24, closing the merge window for this development cycle. By that time, 12,435 non-merge changesets had been merged into the mainline, making for a less-busy merge window than the last couple of kernel releases (but similar to the 12,492 seen for 6.5). Well over 7,000 of those changes were merged after the first-half merge-window summary was written, meaning that the latter part of the merge window brought many more interesting changes.

Security updates for Monday

LWN.net - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 16:11
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti, firefox-esr, freeipa, gross, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, python2.7, python3.7, samba, and thunderbird), Fedora (amavis, chromium, clojure, firefox, gnutls, kubernetes, and tcpreplay), Mageia (freeimage, libreswan, nodejs-hawk, and python, python3), Oracle (golang, nodejs, nodejs:16, and postgresql-jdbc), Slackware (emacs and mozilla), SUSE (dav1d, ghostscript, go1.22, indent, kernel, openvswitch, PackageKit, python-uamqp, rubygem-rack-1_4, shadow, ucode-intel, xen, and zziplib), and Ubuntu (firefox, graphviz, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, and qpdf).

Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4

Phoronix - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 16:04
The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit...

Linux 6.9 Will Boot Much Faster For Systems With Large Amounts Of RAM

Phoronix - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 15:21
The Linux 6.9 kernel will be able to boot systems with large amounts of memory -- and in particular making use of HugeTLB pages -- much faster than with previous kernels, netting a noticeable reduction in boot times...

Mesa 24.1 Merges AMD Radeon VPE 1.1 Engine Support

Phoronix - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 15:07
AMD open-source Linux driver patches posted last summer enabled the new "VPE" IP block as a general purpose copy engine for future AMD GPUs. This VPE block might premiere in the upcoming AMD RDNA3.5 refresh (RDNA3+) integrated graphics but in any event AMD is already working on the incrementally improved VPE 1.1 IP with that now being supported by the Mesa 24.1 RadeonSI driver code...

today's leftovers

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 15:06
just 3 more stories

Programming Leftovers

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 14:59
Programming and education

Open Hardware and Retro Leftovers

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 14:46
Some hardware picks

Tiny Corp Changes Course Yet Again With Plans To Offer AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:46
It was just last week that Tiny Corp put their AMD Radeon graphics powered compute boxes "on hold" after being frustrated with the lack of select firmware source code and ultimately hitting various bugs. This wasn't the first time they had put their AMD Radeon graphics plans on-hold or dismissed it outright. With the start of the new week now comes plans to re-introduce an AMD Radeon graphics option for their compute boxes alongside their recently announced NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 compute rigs...

GitHub Developers Hit in Complex Supply Chain Cyberattack

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:34
The attacker employed various techniques, including distributing malicious dependencies via a fake Python infrastructure linked to GitHub projects.

Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:25
The Mozilla Firefox 124 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available for download ahead of its official unveiling on March 19th, 2024, so it’s time to take a closer look at the new features and improvements.

Games: War Games, Racing Games, and How to Play Games on GNU/Linux

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:20
3 stories for gaming focus

today's howtos

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:18
half a dozen more

Android Leftovers

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:11
Samsung Finally Adopts Android’s Seamless Updates Starting With Galaxy A55 5G: Here’s How It Works

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 185 is available for testing

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 13:03
This update is another testing version for IPFire

Why did I choose Fedora Server?

tuxmachines.org - Pon, 03/25/2024 - 12:57
There are plenty of articles discussing which OS is more appropriate
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