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Manjaro Linux Working On "Manjaro Data Donor" As New Data Collection Tool
Arch-based Manjaro Linux is working on Manjaro Data Donor "MDD" as a new data collection tool of its users. This is intended to succeed their former ping-based solution for user counting plus incorporate hardware/software data collection on users. Once...
2024-11-04 09:00
Fujitsu Monaka CPU Target Added To GCC 15 Compiler
Fujitsu has upstreamed support for their next-gen "Monaka" Armv9 processor into the GNU Compiler Collection codebase in time for the GCC 15 release coming out early next year...
2024-11-04 08:28
F2FS File-System Adding Device Aliasing Feature For Nifty Uses
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is adding a device aliasing file feature that could appear in the upcoming Linux v6.13 merge window...
2024-11-04 07:00
Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13
Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...
2024-11-04 06:33
AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception
AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors runni...
2024-11-04 06:17
CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO
CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are expl...
2024-11-04 05:55
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display
Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced...
2024-11-04 05:39
Linux 6.12-rc6 Released With That Latest Performance Optimization & Various Fixes
Linus Torvalds has just issued the Linux 6.12-rc6 kernel release as we close in on the stable Linux 6.12 kernel release later in November...
2024-11-03 19:18
Rust-Based Redox OS Gets RISC-V Working, Also Now Booting On The Raspberry Pi 4
The Redox OS open-source Rust-based operating system project is out with their newest monthly development update...
2024-11-03 10:34
AMD Heterogeneous CPU Design Topology Patches Coming For Linux 6.13
The latest patches from AMD Linux engineers for working on x86 heterogeneous design identification were queued last week for introduction in the Linux 6.13 kernel...
2024-11-03 09:30
Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer
The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October...
2024-11-03 09:10
Nice Performance Gains With SVT-AV1 2.3 Encoding On The System76 Thelio Astra
With this week's release of SVT-AV1 2.3 for open-source AV1 encoding citing significant performance improvements for running on ARM, I was eager to see how well this AV1 encoder would be performing on the new System76 Thelio Astra ARM developer desktop...
2024-11-03 06:26
Apple Silicon OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Updated This Week For Mesa 24.3
Alyssa Rosenzweig has pushed the latest Apple Silicon OpenGL "AGX Gallium3D" and Vulkan "Honeykrisp" code from the Asahi Linux development repository into the Mesa Git codebase ahead of this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release...
2024-11-03 06:11
Snapdragon X1 Elite CPUFreq Support Revised In Latest Linux Patches
While the mainline Linux kernel has begun seeing initial support for various Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops, various feature limitations are outstanding before these Qualcomm-powered laptops really become usable for daily use. For instance, just a few day...
2024-11-03 05:58
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release...
2024-11-02 15:49
Cloudflare's Pingora 0.4 Rust Framework Released With Experimental Windows Support
Cloudflare's Pingora Rust framework that was written as a replacement to Nginx and made publicly open-source earlier this year with a focus on building fast and reliable networked systems is out with its newest feature release...
2024-11-02 12:00
Genode-Based Sculpt OS 24.10 Introduces Multi-Monitor Support
Sculpt OS for what has been working to become a general purpose operating system built off the original Genode is out with a new feature release...
2024-11-02 08:44
Intel Lands VVC VA-API Hardware Decoding Into FFmpeg
Intel has integrated VVC VA-API hardware accelerated decoding support into the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...
2024-11-02 06:49
KDE Will Nicely Notify You When Apps Are Being Killed Due To Out-Of-Memory
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary of interesting KDE changes in closing out October...
2024-11-02 06:30
Vulkan 1.3.301 Released With New Extension For HDR Vivid
Vulkan 1.3.301 was published on Friday with the lone new extension this release being a rare contribution from Huawei adding HDR Vivid support with VK_HUAWEI_hdr_vivid...
2024-11-02 06:20