Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is now officially available, featuring critical security updates, bug fixes, and improved desktop stability.

Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors.

Software package management is an essential skill for any system administrator working with Linux distributions such as CentOS and RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Managing software efficiently ensures that your system remains secure, up-to-date, and optimized for performance.

Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘flashiest addition’ in this new development release as it spans Anv (Intel), Asahi (Apple), Lavapipe (software), NVK (NVIDIA), PanVK (Mali), RADV (AMD), and Turnip (Qualcomm).

Alpha 6 of System76's COSMIC desktop environment is now available with desktop zoom, improved accessibility, desktop icons, new scaling options, and more.

System76 engineers remain quite busy working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment to be used by their Pop!_OS operating system as well as other Linux distributions moving forward...

In this, the second quiz since the reboot there are 11 questions, just like the New York Times New Quiz. So, how much did you pay attention this week to open source and tech news?

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The Eclipse Foundation enhances security with SBOM integration and improved vulnerability management, backed by a €515K investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund.

In general we follow https://news.itsfoss.com/cachyos-kernel-builder/ . Start with installation $ sudo apt install bpftooland include /usr/sbin in system $PATH variable. [code]$ git clone https://github.com/Nitrux/linux-cachyos-deb $ cd linux-cachyos-deb$ ./cachy-kernel-deb[/code] Script installs all required packages and pops up TUI dialog to configure kernel 6.13.3 and finally proceed with building of packages.

The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards to run Fedora Linux.

VyOS Networks proudly joins the Linux Foundation as a Silver member and becomes a General member of the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project, an initiative focused on open, interoperable DPU/IPU architectures for high-performance networking, security, and storage acceleration.

"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table."

OpenRazer 3.10 now supports DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed, Basilisk V3 Pro 35K, and Blade 18 (2024), along with key bug fixes and improvements.

multiClock is software that lets you track the current time in major financial centres around the globe. It’s free and open source software.

This week, Jonathan Bennett talks Rocky Linux with Gregory Kurtzer and Krista Burdine! Where did the project come from, and what’s the connection with CIQ and RESF? Listen to find out!

After a week’s delay, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS was published today by Canonical for all official flavors as the second point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

The Bit-Brick K1 is a single-board computer designed for industrial and edge computing applications. It features the SpacemiT Key Stone K1, an ultra-low-power octa-core RISC-V system-on-chip with SpacemiT Daoyi AI acceleration. Built on the RISC-V 64GCVB architecture and RVA22 standard, the processor delivers 2.0TOPS of AI computing power using customized RISC-V instructions optimized for TensorFlow Lite, TensorFlow, and ONNX Runtime.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, a major Linux kernel developer, supports the integration of Rust into the Linux kernel, especially for new code and drivers.

Yesterday a number of Windows reviews began appearing for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 "Strix Halo" with the debut of the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 as the first laptop to ship this SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 MB L3 cache, and 40 graphics cores with the Radeon 8060S Graphics. As expected, AMD Strix Halo is a beast with its very capable CPU performance and very compelling integrated graphics, at least under Windows 11.