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Initially upstreamed into the Linux 6.18 kernel is Tyr as a Rust-based GPU kernel driver for Arm Mali hardware. This is in effect a Rust alternative to the Panthor DRM kernel driver for newer Arm Mali GPUs with the Command Stream Firmware (CSF). With the latest development code for Tyr, it's moved onto running the GNOME desktop and basic games like SuperTuxKart.

The original writeup https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunnel/index.html

The mid-90s was arguably the period in PC history with the most whiplash-inducing changes. The arrival of 3D acceleration cards, the transition from plain-textbox DOS to fancy Windows 95, and the advent of the Internet all happened at once. This rapidly shifting landscape posed quite the challenge for game developers, as they had to consider writing their games for DOS, Windows 95, or both.

In an exceedingly detailed writeup, Fabien Sanglard explains how the OG Quake got its support for TCP/IP and was arguably the only game that used the same executable with native support for both operating systems.

HOUSTON (AP) — A grand jury in Texas has indicted the man accused of killing “King of the Hill” voice actor Jonathan Joss on a murder charge.

But it is unclear whether Joss’ killing will be considered a hate crime. Police in San Antonio did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday on whether its investigation had determined that Joss’ sexual orientation played a role in his shooting, and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the matter.

Police allege Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, 57, confronted Joss and his husband on June 1 as they were checking their mail at their San Antonio home, which had been burned down in January.

Over three months after the previous major 9.0 release, Proxmox, a powerful, free, open-source virtualization platform with over 1.6 million installed hosts worldwide, unveiled the first update to the series, Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1. The release builds on Debian 13.2 “Trixie” and ships with kernel 6.17.2, QEMU 10.1.2, LXC 6.0.5, ZFS 2.3.4, and Ceph Squid 19.2.3 under the hood.

One of the most notable additions is support for creating LXC containers from OCI images. Administrators can now pull standard OCI images from registries or upload them manually and use them directly as templates.

Depending on the image, Proxmox provisions either full system containers or lean application containers, the latter optimized for microservices with minimal overhead. Application containers also gain host-managed DHCP and configurable environment variables, improving deployment flexibility without requiring a full userspace network stack.

Sent out today was likely the last batch of HID subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel releasing as stable around the end of the month. With it are some new device-specific quirks for fixing hardware support for a mouse and keyboard.

The ELECOM M-XT3URBK as a wired trackball mouse with six programmable buttons should see all the buttons now working under Linux. This ~$40 USD mouse should be playing nicely with Linux 6.18.

As we get closer to the launch of the new Steam Machine and Steam Frame, Valve put out a new Steamworks SDK that brings in libraries for linuxarm64 and android.

This is of course work more specifically for the Steam Frame, since it's using an ARM64 processor and it will support running Android APKs to hopefully get developers from other VR kits to work with it. And, as confirmed previously by The Verge, Steam itself is getting Android games to go with it.

Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it's not clear what this new hardware enablement is for whether it's RDNA5 / UDNA or some RDNA4 refresh. In any event, the Linux driver enablement has begun.

Yesterday saw the PSP 15.0.8 IP posted. Not much is revealed by this updated Platform Security Processor (PSP) block and an incremental revision over what's already supported by the AMDGPU driver. The Platform Security Processor block on AMD GPU hardware handles firmware validation and other low-level security-related tasks.

Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of the KDE Slimbook VII laptop to celebrate 8 years of collaboration with the KDE project in creating the best Plasma-powered Linux notebooks.

Designed for KDE Plasma users and optimized for the Linux ecosystem, the KDE Slimbook VII laptop features a premium aluminum chassis in a sophisticated slate-blue color, an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor with integrated AMD Radeon 880M graphics, up to 128 GB DDR5 RAM, and up to 8 TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD storage.

The KDE Slimbook VII Linux laptop also features a 16-inch WQXGA display with 2560×1600 resolution, 100% sRGB, 16:10 aspect ratio, 400 nits brightness, and 165 Hz refresh rate, a multi-language backlit keyboard, and a cooling system with dual fans and dedicated keys to switch between power modes.

Xen 4.21 is out today as the newest feature release for this open-source hypervisor backed by AMD, Arm, AWS, and other organizations. Plus with Xen's use within automotive environments, Ford and Honda too.

Xen 4.21 ships with formally supporting the qemu-xen device models inside a Linux stub domain, which is a win for the likes of QubesOS.

For those using Xen on AMD hardware, there is now AMD CPU driver support for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) for better power efficiency on Zen 3 and newer EPYC/Ryzen systems.

Xen also now supports Resizable BARs (ReBAR) for PVH Dom0 for exposing larger memory regions and better I/O efficiency. Xen logo

Xen 4.21 also brings a new PDX compression algorithm for lowering the hypervisor memory footprint. Xen 4.21 also brings various improvements to the Arm and RISC-V CPU support.

More details on today's Xen 4.21 release via the Linux Foundation press release and XenProject.org.

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In mid-October, the Xubuntu download site was compromised and had directed users to a malicious zip file instead of the Torrent file that users expected. Elizabeth K. Joseph has published a postmortem of the incident, along with plans to avoid such a breach in the future:

To be perfectly clear: this only impacted our website, and the torrent links provided there.

If you downloaded or opened a file named "Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip" from the Xubuntu downloads page during this period, you should assume it was malicious. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with a trusted antivirus or anti-malware solution and deleting the file immediately.

Nothing on cdimages.ubuntu.com or any of the other official Ubuntu repositories was impacted, and our mirrors remained safe as long as they were also mirroring from official resources.

None of the build systems, packages, or other components of Xubuntu itself were impacted.