Debian 12 "Bookworm" operating system is finally here and you can download it right now, right here. Check out the new features too!

A step-by-step tutorial shows how to safely upgrade and update Debian 11 Bullseye to Debian 12 Bookworm using apt-get command-line options.

With today's release of Debian 12 the official ports are for AMD64, AArch64, ARMEL, ARMHF, i386, MIPS, 64-bit MIPS, POWER, and IBM System Z

The Mesa Venus driver that provides Vulkan API support for use inside of QEMU with VirtIO-GPU has added a number of extensions to help support for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.

While Intel has been working on the Sapphire Rapids support for Linux going back years and to other key components like GCC and LLVM/Clang to provide for a good at-launch experience with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, one bit that they hadn't squared away…

AMD engineer Qiang Yu has recently been working on bringing support for Valve's ACO compiler from RADV over to the RadeonSI Gallium3D OpenGL driver as an alternative to using the default AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 11th, 2023, brings news about Debian 12, Firefox 114, Cinnamon 5.8, openSUSE Leap 15.5, and more.

Richard Hughes of Red Hat has released a new version of Fwupd, the open-source tool that goes along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for allowing motherboards/systems and various peripheral devices to enjoy firmware updates easily from Linux.

For Linux gamers relying on Microsoft Xbox controllers, the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel will enable rumble support for several newer controller models.

Support for RISC-V's Vector ISA is now expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window.

Following this weekend's release of Debian 12.0, the Debian GNU Hurd port has been released that rather than utilizing the Linux kernel is making use of GNU Hurd.

While the upstream Linux kernel support for RISC-V continues to improve with new ISA features, support for more RISC-V SoCs, and other enhancements, in some areas the open-source RISC-V code continues to play catch-up with the other mature architectures supported…

VMware's SVGA Gallium3D driver that provides OpenGL support within guest virtual machines running with VMware virtualization products is now finally defaulting to using the modern NIR intermediate representative rather than Gallium3D's TGSI.

Last month I wrote about the virtual ALSA driver being developed for the Linux kernel

Meta engineers have proposed a shared workqueue 'swqueue' feature for the Linux kernel's CFS scheduler that can help with a small throughput performance improvement and slightly better latency, particularly for AMD systems with multiple CCXs.

The convenient Mesa Matrix tracker that has long shown Vulkan and OpenGL versions and extensions supported by the different open-source drivers has also now begun reporting OpenCL support.