A FIDO U2F security key is a small USB and/or NFC based device. It is a hardware security token with modules for many security related use-cases. There are several brands of FIDO compliant keys, including NitroKey, SoloKey v2, and YubiKey. FIDO, in contrast…

Intel's open-source 'ANV' Vulkan Linux driver within Mesa is now enabling graphics pipeline libraries (GPL) functionality by default but at the same time has demoted their Vulkan mesh shader functionality to being hidden behind an environment variable until…

Going back to last August were Intel patches to help Intel hybrid CPU handling on Linux by avoiding unnecessary task migrations within SMT domains

Canonical's latest Ubuntu 23.04 Linux operating system is now optimized for StarFive’s VisionFive 2 RISC-V single-board computer.

Ubuntu 23.04 is now officially available for StarFive's VisionFive 2, a powerful RISC-V single-board computer. Canonical worked with StarFive's

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 operating system is now available with support for 64K page sizes for ARM, new system roles, and more.

GUADEC (GNOME Users And Developers European Conference) 2023 conference registration is now open to everyone willing to attend the event.

Mixxx 2.3.5 open-source DJ software is now available for download with better support for Pioneer DDJ-400 and Hercules P32 controllers.

Mesa 23.1 has been released as this quarter's feature release for this collection of open-source, user-space graphics components that primarily consist of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.

Mesa 23.1 open-source graphics stack arrives with support for new Vulkan extensions for the RADV driver and improved support for many games.

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KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment to ship with a floating panel by default, double-click to open files, a new default Task Switcher, and more.

An initial batch of DRM-Misc-Next patches targeting the Linux 6.5 kernel later this summer were sent today to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of that next merge window.

Since Linux 5.18 there has been Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) in the mainline kernel that was contributed by Intel as part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)

KDE Gear 23.04.1 open-source software suite is now available with various improvements and fixes for many of your favorite KDE apps.

For those wondering how the recent releases of the Clang 16 and GCC 13 are competing for the fastest generated binaries of these leading open-source compilers, here is a fresh round of benchmarks from an Intel Core i9 13900K 'Raptor Lake' system looking at…

LibreOffice 7.4.7 office suite is now available for download as the last update in the series. Users are urged to upgrade to LibreOffice 7.5.

The folks at System76 have published a new blog post that summarizes their software progress over the course of April on further advancing their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment.

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