Linux games get a performance boost with new NVIDIA NVK Vulkan graphics card driver
The NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver for Linux has received a significant update that will significantly improve gaming performance by implementing implicit pipeline caching. This optimization method allows the video card to reuse rendered content and pipeline configurations. This eliminates the need for pipeline reprogramming and improves performance.
«Digital sovereignty». German authorities transferred 30 thousand civil servants to Linux
Authorities in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein have switched 30,000 civil servants from Microsoft Windows to Linux.
Backdoor found in xz Utils of Linux distributions. Urgent call to abandon Fedora
A backdoor has been discovered in the popular xz Utils package for lossless data compression and working with the .xz format Backdoor is a method of bypassing standard authentication procedures, unauthorized remote access to a computer.
Windows subsystem for Linux will get a graphical interface
It should be noted that we are not talking about the Linux GUI in Windows, but about the implementation of some functions of the Windows for Linux (WSL) subsystem in the Microsoft OS interface. The company has created a graphical implementation of some Linux distribution management tools, including selection and launch.
AMD adds Zen 5 support to GCC Linux compiler
AMD has added support for its upcoming Zen 5 microarchitecture-based processors to the GCC compiler. Znver5 is now a target in the GCC Git repository until the stable release of GCC 14.1. This move ensures that developers will have the necessary compiler support for Ryzen and EPYC processors based on Zen 5 before their release later this year.
The share of Linux exceeded 4% for the first time. The percentage of macOS users is decreasing
According to the research company Statcounter, Linux reached 4.03% of the global operating system market in February. Statcounter obtains desktop operating system (OS) usage statistics by tracking the code installed on more than 1.5 million websites that generate more than 5 billion page views each month.