At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kernel. An updated version of these Nouveau driver patches for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs were posted overnight…

We will use Tuxguitar to render the audio of a Guitar Pro score [5]. Guitar Pro scores are files with a complete band score transcribed (guitars, bass, drums, synths and more). Introduction Tuxguitar is a quite powerful application written in a mixture of Java / C. It is able to render a score in real […]

The SUSE Security Team has published
an article detailing several security
issues it has uncovered with GNU Screen. This includes
a local root exploit when Screen is shipped setuid-root, as it is in
some Linux and BSD distributions. The security team also reports problems
in coordinating disclosure with the upstream Screen project.

We are not satisfied with how this coordinated disclosure developed,
and we will try to be more attentive to such problematic situations
early on in the future. This experience also sheds light on the
overall situation of Screen upstream. It looks like it suffers from a
lack of manpower and expertise, which is worrying for such a
widespread open source utility. We hope this publication can help to
draw attention to this and to improve this situation in the future.

The article includes a table
of operating systems, screen versions, and which vulnerabilities they
may be affected by.

A new version of Raspberry Pi OS is now available, marking what is likely the final release based on Debian Bookworm before the upcoming transition to Debian Trixie later this year. The update introduces usability enhancements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations across the system. One notable addition is a customized screen locking mechanism based on […]

Some sage advice for EU nations attempting to get a handle on the vast volumes of EU citizens’ data being held in US-owned and operated clouds.

The post European Data Sovereignty and American Clouds: A Brewing Storm appeared first on FOSS Force.

The VUSec security researchers are at it again… The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo…

The Guix project has announced
that it is migrating all of its Git repositories, as well as bug
tracking and patch tracking, from Savannah to the Codeberg Git forge.

As a user, the main change is that your channels.scm
configuration files, if they refer to the
git.savannah.gnu.org URL, should be changed to refer to
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix.git once migration is
complete. But don’t worry: guix pull will tell you
if/when you need to update your config files and the old URL will
remain a mirror for at least a year anyway.

The motivation for the move, which is spelled out in a Guix
Consensus Document (GCD), is to improve the contribution
experience and improve quality assurance efforts. Migration of Git
repositories should be completed by June 7, though they will
continue to be mirrored on Savannah until “at least” May 2026. LWN covered Guix in February 2024.

The announcement
of the openSUSE Leap 16.0 beta contained something of a
surprise—along with the usual set of changes and updates, it
informed the community of the retirement of “the traditional YaST
stack” from Leap. The YaST (“Yet another Setup Tool”)
installation and configuration utility has been a core part of the
openSUSE distribution since its inception
in 2005, and part of SUSE Linux since 1996. It will not, immediately,
be removed from the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release
distribution, but its future is uncertain and its fate is up to the larger
community to decide.

We finally have AMD’s Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it’s a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to provide a dominating laptop powerhouse. In today’s article are the very initial benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC under Linux with a focus on the CPU capabilities: a separate article also out today is looking at the AMD Radeon 8060S graphics on Linux.

As shown in today’s article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that’s only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally interesting topic for Linux users considering a Strix Halo laptop or desktop, this article is centered around the integrated Radeon 8060S graphics support and performance under Linux.

The 239th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 11th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Linus has released 6.15-rc6 for testing.

Everything still looks fairly normal – we’ve got a bit more commits
than we did in rc5, which isn’t the trend I want to see as the
release progresses, but the difference isn’t all that big and it
feels more like just the normal noise in timing fluctuation in pull
requests of fixes than any real signal.

So I won’t worry about it. We’ve got another two weeks to go in the
normal release schedule, and it still feels like everything is on
track.

While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2…

Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software…

Flatpak 1.16.1 was released today as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework and the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series.

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Raspberry Pi OS, Plasma 6.3.5, Kitty 0.42, Hyprland 0.49, ‘End of 10’ campaign, openSUSE removing the Deepin desktop, Mint’s theme gets a modern touch, and more.

At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release…

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers…

So far two Judges (called “Masters” here) separately and independently ruled in our favour because they can see what’s really happening