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Triple Buffering Support Updated Against Latest GNOME 48 Code

It's been over four years now that the GNOME Mutter pull request has been open for introducing dynamic triple/double buffering support. It's still not clear that it will be ready for merging with GNOME 48 due out in March but at least the patches have ...

2025-01-15 08:45

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Linux 6.14 To Bring An Important Improvement For AMD Preferred Core

Being merged back in the Linux 6.9 kernel was AMD Preferred Core support within the amd_pstate driver for being able to communicate the "preferred" cores to the kernel for those that are able to reach a higher maximum frequency or otherwise be preferre...

2025-01-15 07:00

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Xen Hypervisor Support Being Worked On For RISC-V

Linux has supported KVM virtualization with RISC-V for several years while now patches are pending to introduce Xen hypervisor support for this CPU architecture for RISC-V guests...

2025-01-15 06:31

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libvirt 11.0 Released For Open-Source Virtualization API

Libvirt 11.0 was christened today as the newest version of this open-source Virtualization API for managing VMs on Linux and other platforms while supporting KVM, QEMU, Xen, VMware ESX, LXC, Bhyve, and other hypervisors...

2025-01-15 06:11

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LACT Linux GPU Control Panel Adds Support For Intel Graphics

In development for several years has been LACT as a Linux GPU Control Application to allow adjusting various GPU/driver settings via a convenient graphical application. AMD and NVIDIA graphics have been supported to date while now Intel graphics are al...

2025-01-15 03:00

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Intel "Performance Tips" Published For Optimal Linux Graphics

Added today to the Mesa documentation for the open-source Intel OpenGL/Vulkan drivers used on Linux systems is a set of "performance tips" for ensuring an optimal Intel Linux graphics 3D accelerated experience...

2025-01-15 00:00

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Rsync 3.4 Released Due To Multiple, Significant Security Vulnerabilities

Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems. Rsync is widely-used especially for backing up Linux servers in an incremental manner and unfortunately this v3.4 release isn't ...

2025-01-14 20:40

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Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch

Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to imp...

2025-01-14 15:47

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GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels

The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...

2025-01-14 12:19

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GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support

ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear ...

2025-01-14 11:01

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Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support Still Poses A Challenge For Linux Laptops

Back in 2022 there were Linux kernel developers like Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman recommending that Intel Alder Lake laptops be avoided. This was due to the Intel web camera support in those new-at-the-time laptops yet to be properly up...

2025-01-14 10:11

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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570

It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...

2025-01-14 06:55

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Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...

2025-01-14 06:36

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JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains

For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...

2025-01-14 06:23

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Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics

Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...

2025-01-14 06:09

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OpenZFS 2.3 Released With RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct I/O & Other Great Improvements

OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...

2025-01-13 20:42

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Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Wi...

2025-01-13 20:25

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Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack

Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of...

2025-01-13 14:52

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Oracle OLED Wants To Help Improve The Debugability Of The Linux Kernel

Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...

2025-01-13 13:25

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GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too

The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March...

2025-01-13 11:50

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