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NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024

This year NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver enjoyed much more robust Wayland support, their open-source kernel modules have matured greatly and are now being used by default, and their proprietary Vulkan and OpenGL drivers remain in good standing...

2024-12-28 11:37

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A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR

An interesting "request for comments" proposal I have been meaning to write about since last month is in-development work developing "Safe C++" as an extension to the LLVM Clang compiler and making use of the new, in-development ClangIR...

2024-12-28 09:00

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FFmpeg Lands Improved Support For Flash Video "FLV" With Multi-Track Audio/Video

It wasn't on my bingo card for end of year 2024 but the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has seen a new round of improvements to the Flash Video (FLV) support...

2024-12-28 08:45

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Fedora's Captivating 2024 With Many New Features & Leading Innovations

The Fedora Linux distribution had another great year with the successful releases of Fedora 40 and Fedora 41 that were both rather polished and largely on-time -- something that couldn't be said frequently of Fedora releases long ago. Fedora Linux has ...

2024-12-28 06:41

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FSF Encouraging Pressure Campaign On Microsoft For 2025

Looking for a 2025 New Year's resolution? The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is encouraging a pressure campaign on Microsoft to continue...

2024-12-28 06:33

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GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released With Bug Fixes Plus A Few Last Minute Features

The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 image editing program that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop will not see its stable release in 2024... But just before the New Year, the GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available for testing...

2024-12-27 19:16

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GNOME Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Support

The GNOME Image Viewer has merged initial support for basic image editing capabilities into the application...

2024-12-27 15:54

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Bottles Software For Easily Running Windows Games/Apps On Linux To Leverage Rust

Bottles as the open-source manager for Wine to more easily run Windows games and applications on Linux has been pursuing the "Bottles Next" initiative as a rewrite to this software. The Bottles developers have decided they will be leveraging the Rust p...

2024-12-27 14:46

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New Linux Drivers Improve Support For ARM-Powered HUAWEI MateBook E Go Laptops

A new set of patches implement EC, UCSI, and PSY drivers for the ARM-based HUAWEI MateBook E Go laptops powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs. In turn these new Linux kernel patches get a lot more functionality working for these Huawei ARM64 laptops...

2024-12-27 13:11

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CentOS Stream 10 vs. AlmaLinux 10 Beta vs. RHEL 10 Beta Performance Benchmarks

Following the benchmarks earlier this month looking at the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 beta performance as well as the AlmaLinux 10 beta, on the same AMD EPYC server here are benchmarks when adding in CentOS Stream 10 to the mix. CentOS Stream 10 as th...

2024-12-27 10:43

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Performance Improvements To Google's Binder Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14

A patch-set working on faster page installations for Google's Binder that is used by Android is on the way for Linux 6.14...

2024-12-27 10:09

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AMD Continued Ramping Up Their Linux & Open-Source Investments In 2024

AMD's new products this year have not only been supported well on the server side with their new EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors but also on the consumer side with the Ryzen AI 300 series laptop and Ryzen 9000 series desktop Zen 5 processors. AMD provided...

2024-12-27 09:15

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OneXPlayer Linux Driver Being Brought To Parity With Windows Driver For These Handhelds

OneXPlayer maintains a line of handheld gaming consoles following in the success of the likes of Valve's Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, and ASUS ROG Ally. These OneXPlayer devices ship with Microsoft Windows by default but the Linux support has been imp...

2024-12-27 06:48

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GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes

The GNOME desktop environment had a vibrant 2024 with landing many new features, continuing to refine its (X)Wayland integration, apps like Ptyxis as a modern terminal taking off, and more. From the software side 2024 was great for GNOME while over on ...

2024-12-27 06:31

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Linux's Preempt Lazy Support Coming To POWER CPUs

Linux 6.13 is introducing a new Lazy Preemption mode with the "PREEMPT_LAZY" option. The lazy preemption mode is similar to full preemption but is less eager to preempt normal (SCHED_NORMAL) tasks. The goal is on reducing lock holder preemption and obt...

2024-12-27 06:13

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GCC ASCII Art Visualizations, Timely Znver5 & Other Compiler Highlights Of 2024

Both GCC and LLVM/Clang made great strides in 2024 in rounding up their latest C and C++ support, enabling new hardware targets, and a variety of other features. Plus other open-source compilers targeting different features / languages, device types, a...

2024-12-26 17:26

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KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop

The KDE desktop progress made over the course of 2024 was particularly stand-out thanks to the Plasma 6.0 debut near the beginning of the year and then Plasma 6.1 and 6.2 further stabilizing and polishing this open-source desktop. It was a very fine ye...

2024-12-26 12:30

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The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS

Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the nex...

2024-12-26 11:30

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Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source News From 2024

In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investm...

2024-12-26 08:55

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Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source Wins From 2024

In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investm...

2024-12-26 08:55

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