Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions…

AMD’s GAIA open-source project as a reminder is their “Generrative AI Is Awesome” quick-setup solution for demonstrating generative AI use on AMD hardware platforms with Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and/or Ryzen AI NPUs. GAIA is predominantly Microsoft Windows focused but recently they did introduce limited support for Linux that is currently bound to Vulkan-accelerated GPU support. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.13 as another step forward for this AI demonstrator…

Systemd-free option still available if you choose that downloadMX Linux 25 “Infinity” is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices now more loaded pre-install decisions.…

One of the many objectives of the Linux
Kernel Self-Protection Project (KSPP), which just completed ten years of
work, is to ensure that all array references can be bounds-checked,
even in the case of flexible array members, the size of which is not known
at compile time. One of the most challenging flexible array members in the
kernel is not even declared as such. Almost exactly one year ago, LWN looked at the effort to increase safety around
the networking subsystem’s heavily used sockaddr structure. One
year later, Kees Cook is still looking for a way to bring this work to a
close.

While the “Nova” driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what’s working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handling larger pages as well as compression support…

Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for Linux 6.19…

Tails 7.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

Following the mainline Linux kernel support for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer from StarFive, Linux kernel patches are on the way for their new VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost offering. With the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite this RISC-V board can be procured for as little as $19.9 USD as one of the cheapest yet fairly capable RISC-V SBCs…

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, “The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone”Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…

The which command locates the executable command or file location in the user’s environmental path. It will give you the complete path an executable command or file is pointing towards in your file system.

Understand how Arch Linux creates .pacnew files during updates and how to manage configuration changes without breaking your setup.

Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventuallyGoogle has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…

The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019…

The LibreOffice 25.8.3 update delivers 70 fixes improving stability, compatibility, and performance across all core applications.

Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-3 as the newest stable update to this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enabling countless Windows games to run often extremely well under Linux…

The Google Security Blog has a
new post on just how well the use of Rust is working out for the
Android project.

We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction
in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and
C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust’s impact on software
delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and
spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also
the faster one.

Thunderbird 145 introduces DNS-over-HTTPS and native Exchange Web Services support, along with enhancements to the Account Hub and bug fixes.

What happens when a seasoned Linux user returns to BSD for a hands-on review? GhostBSD delivers unexpected surprises.

The post And Now for Something Completely Different: Kicking the Tires and Test Driving a BSD appeared first on FOSS Force.

Following the recent patch proposal for moving AMD GCN 1.1 generation GPUs over to the AMDGPU Linux driver by default in place of the legacy Radeon driver, a similar patch has now been proposed for the GCN 1.0 graphics processors. AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are at parity with the AMDGPU driver to the Radeon driver while needing this newer kernel driver for enjoying RADV Vulkan support, better performance, and overall a better experience…

Arduino has released the Nesso N1, a compact IoT controller developed with M5Stack and built around the ESP32-C6. The device integrates a touch display, onboard sensors, and multiple wireless protocols inside a small enclosure aimed at rapid prototyping and portable embedded applications. The system is built around Espressif’s ESP32-C6 microcontroller, a single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor […]