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Xfce 4.20 Pre1 Pre-Release Published For Testing

Right on schedule for releasing the Xfce 4.20 desktop in December, the "Pre1" pre-release was posted on Friday for testing...

2024-11-02 06:03

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Steam On Linux Marketshare Hits 2.0% For October, AMD CPU Use By Linux Gamers Approaches 75%

Earlier this year and through July Steam on Linux was enjoying above a 2% marketshare thanks to the success of the Arch Linux powered SteamOS and Steam Deck offerings. But then for August and September Steam on Linux use was below 2%. After a 0.13% ris...

2024-11-01 20:12

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Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release

Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for releasing Wine 10.0 around mid-January as the annual stable release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

2024-11-01 13:28

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Ubuntu's Great Mainline Kernel PPA Hasn't Been Working Since Mid-September

One of the very convenient features for Ubuntu Linux users who want to run the very newest upstream kernel releases or simply test a new kernel build for verifying bug fixes or functionality has been the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA. It's been around for...

2024-11-01 11:54

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Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with games leveraging AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2...

2024-11-01 10:26

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Valve Engineer Fixes Massive Performance Issue For RADV Driver With AMD FSR2 Sample

With the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release there is a huge improvement coming for those using the RADV Radeon Vulkan driver with the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 sample app...

2024-11-01 10:26

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Google Chrome/Chromium Lands linux_drm_syncobj_v1 For Wayland Explicit Sync

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser code has merged support for linux_drm_syncobj_v1 as the modern Wayland protocol for explicit buffer synchronization...

2024-11-01 09:31

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New Intel Diamond Rapids Patch For GCC Confirms AVX10.2-512, APX & Other ISA Features

Intel software engineers have been very busy recently with upstreaming various elements of support into the Linux kernel, open-source compilers and more for the next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. Following the recent GCC prep patches for D...

2024-11-01 07:00

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Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October

October is now in the books after writing 247 original news articles and another 24 Linux hardware reviews / featured multi-page benchmark articles. From the launches of Intel Arrow Lake and AMD EPYC 9005 to other interesting new hardware, the Russian ...

2024-11-01 06:34

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Ubuntu Hoping To Remove Qt 5 Before Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu developer Simon Quigley laid out the plans for hoping Ubuntu packages will move from Qt 5 to Qt 6 so that by the time of the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle in early 2026 that the older version of this graphical toolkit can be removed...

2024-11-01 06:24

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Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations

Miriway 24.10 was released on Halloween as the newest version of this Mir-based Wayland compositor. Miriway is developed by Canonical/Ubuntu developers as a compositor for other desktops like Xfce, MATE, LXQt and others as a way to ease their migration...

2024-11-01 06:13

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Bcachefs Reigning In Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop By 40% Over Last Month

As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system...

2024-11-01 06:08

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Bcachefs Reining In Bugs: Test Dashboard Failures Drop By 40% Over Last Month

As part of the latest Bcachefs fixes pull request, lead developer Kent Overstreet has provided an update on the bug situation for this advanced copy-on-write open-source file-system...

2024-11-01 06:08

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Academy Software Foundation Releases OpenVDB 12.0 Under New License

The Academy Software Foundation that is made up of many different vendors released OpenVDB 12.0 as the newest major release to this sparse volume data structure library and tooling that is an Academy Award winning library started by DreamWorks Animatio...

2024-11-01 05:53

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VMware Workstation Shifting From Proprietary Code To Using Upstream KVM

This isn't an off-schedule April Fools' Joke or anything like that but an exciting sign of the times: VMware Workstation will be shifting off its proprietary base and onto leveraging the upstream Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualizat...

2024-10-31 20:57

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COSMIC Desktop Alpha 3 Released With More Enhancements

As a nice Halloween treat for Linux desktop users, System76 has published their third alpha version of the Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment...

2024-10-31 20:48

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AMD EPYC 9655 Benchmarks Show The Terrific Generational Gains With 5th Gen EPYC

With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin "classic" ...

2024-10-31 12:26

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AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators

AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November...

2024-10-31 09:47

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Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea Of "-O3" Optimized Packages

Following the announcement yesterday that Ubuntu 25.04 will default to the -O3 optimization level with GCC for its Debian package builds, Fedora stakeholders have begun debating the merits of switching to the -O3 optimization level or not instead of th...

2024-10-31 09:00

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Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch

Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case...

2024-10-31 07:10

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