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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release...
2025-02-12 19:06
ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 Provides Effective Cooling For AMD EPYC 9004/9005 CPUs
Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler...
2025-02-12 14:00
Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV & RadeonSI Fixes
Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...
2025-02-12 12:51
Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison
Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware...
2025-02-12 10:05
GNU Shepherd 1.0.2 Service Manager Delivers Fixes
In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release...
2025-02-12 10:00
Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic "Screen of Death"
Now that the Linux 6.14 merge window has passed, new feature material aiming for the Linux 6.15 kernel is beginning to get ready for staging in DRM-Next ahead of that next merge window opening up around the end of March. Sent out today was the first ba...
2025-02-12 06:52
Intel C1 Demotion Knob Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help Newer Xeon CPUs
A patch has been proposed for the Linux kernel to add a C1 demotion knob via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/c1_demotion for more control over lower power state handling for recent Xeon Scalable processors. This C1 demotion knob can help with the perfo...
2025-02-12 06:35
Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Matures To Default AArch64 Mesa Driver List
The open-source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan driver within Mesa known as "TURNIP" has now matured enough that it's going to be built by default when compiling Mesa for ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
2025-02-12 06:30
Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 Prepares For Panther Lake
Intel on Tuesday released Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 as their newest feature release of this open-source daemon to help monitor and control the CPU/SoC temperature within laptops and other modern Intel hardware...
2025-02-12 06:21
Python 3.14 Alpha 5 Released With New Tail-Call Interpreter
Python 3.14 Alpha 5 is out today as the latest of many development releases in stepping toward the Python 3.14 stable release in October...
2025-02-11 16:53
Healthy Competition With GCC 15 vs. LLVM Clang 20 Performance On AMD Zen 5
In the recent discussion over the GNU Gold linker being deprecated, there was the usual LLVM vs. GCC compiler/toolchain debate. Fortunately, with recently working on some initial benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler I was following that up with some fresh...
2025-02-11 13:03
Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues
Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake, Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different...
2025-02-11 12:15
GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App
While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...
2025-02-11 10:18
Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default
Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...
2025-02-11 09:54
Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...
2025-02-11 08:46
FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding
FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...
2025-02-11 08:36
KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements
Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...
2025-02-11 06:44
AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option
AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP pa...
2025-02-11 06:24
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...
2025-02-11 06:13
Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...
2025-02-10 20:43