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.

risiOS aims to offer fans of the Fedora Linux operating system a remix that includes various tweaks and unique tools for an easier setup.

Thanks to the driver being open-source, the ATI (AMD) R300 Gallium3D driver within Mesa is still seeing new (occasional) optimizations for Radeon graphics cards launched nearly two decades ago.

AMD is kicking off what is going to be an exciting day with announcing the Ryzen PRO 7000 series processors for upcoming laptops and desktops. The Ryzen PRO 7000 series is being announced today for both laptops and workstations/desktops.

Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.

Tails 5.14 anonymous OS is now available for download automatic migration to LUKS2 and Argon2id, full backups from Tails Installer, and more.

In addition to AMD announcing the Ryzen PRO 7000 series this morning, they have now announced Bergamo, Genoa-X, and other new data center offerings.

Beyond launching Bergamo and Genoa-X, AMD's AI Day also showcased the new AMD-Pensando DPU offerings and also previewed more of their next-gen Instinct MI300 accelerator APU.

Ultramarine Linux 38 is now available for download based on Fedora Linux 38 with Budgie Desktop, GNOME 44, and KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS.

Find out how to use systemd-cryptenroll with a TPM2 chip or a FIDO U2F security key to unlock your LUKS partitions.

Oracle has published the latest community edition releases of GraalVM targeting JDK17 and JDK20

Microsoft has published the latest release of their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) implementation for running Linux distributions within the confines of Windows

Thomas Gleixner of Linutronix, which was acquired by Intel last year, and his team are working on cleaning up the Linux x86/x86_64 boot process

It's recommended to avoid using the open-source NVIDIA 'Nouveau' graphics driver on the current stable Linux 6.3 series as there is a serious bug present that could cause varying issues to your system.

Following an exciting AMD AI Day yesterday where they launched the Ryzen PRO 7000 series for desktops and laptops, launched Genoa-X and Bergamo server processors, and introduced the MI300X, there is additional exciting news today..