Linux

Update on hibernation in Fedora Workstation
Goals and rationale Hibernation stores the state of the whole operating system — the contents of memory used by the kernel and all programs — on disk. The machine is then completely powered off. Upon next boot, this state is restored and the old ke...
2025-01-24 08:00
GNOME Showtime Video Player Won't Be Ready Until GNOME 49
While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME 48 Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn't a new official video player for this desktop release...
2025-01-24 07:05
NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver
Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...
2025-01-24 06:44
XFS Code For Linux 6.14 Improves Realtime Device Support
In addition to the Bcachefs features and new Btrfs code for Linux 6.14, the XFS file-system changes were merged on Thursday for this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-01-24 06:31
Fedora Preparing For A Data Center Move For More Power & Space For Possible RISC-V
It's not only AI start-ups running into space and power capacity bottlenecks but the Fedora Project has been pushing the limits of its main data center and is preparing for a move to a new data center to allow for more physical space and power capacity...
2025-01-24 06:18
GNOME 48 Alpha Released With Many New Features
The GNOME 48 Alpha release was issued this morning for helping to test this updated desktop environment debuting as stable in March...
2025-01-24 06:05
GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs
GNOME 47.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes. The post GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Se...
2025-01-23 22:28
Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview Released With UEK-Next Based On Linux 6.12
Building off last month's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 beta, Oracle today published the Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview for a first glimpse at this next RHEL10-derived operating system...
2025-01-23 20:33
Flock to Fedora 2025: Prague, June 5th – 8th!
Get ready to pack your bags and join us for Flock to Fedora 2025, coming to the beautiful city of Prague, Czechia, from June 5th to 8th, 2025! We are heading to Prague in June 2025. The call for proposals opens today, and read on for more details about...
2025-01-23 19:40
Vivaldi 7.1 Delivers Speed Dial Buffs, New Search Engine
Vivaldi web browser has just released its first major update of the year – a corker it is, too! Fans of the Chromium-based browser—though Vivaldi Technologies doesn’t appear to be part of the new Linux Foundation-led Supporters of Chromium Browse...
2025-01-23 19:19
GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager
GNOME 46.8 is now available as the eighth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and small improvements. The post GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Mana...
2025-01-23 16:45
x86 32-bit Operating Systems Aren't Dead Yet: New Linux Patches Improve 32-bit PAE
The Linux x86 32-bit PAE kernel support for Physical Address Extensions allows addressing more than 4GB of memory for those still running 32-bit processors or otherwise opting to still run a 32-bit OS. While the Linux x86 32-bit specific code rarely se...
2025-01-23 15:18
Submit a Presentation for the openSUSE Conference
The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2025 is open. The conference is scheduled to take place June 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Germany. Until April 30, people can submit proposals for a talk or workshop to share insights and their expertise. People ha...
2025-01-23 14:00
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta 2 Improves systemd-homed Support
Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta while today a second beta was issued...
2025-01-23 12:49
Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"
All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State C...
2025-01-23 12:31
Redis 8.0-M3 Brings Async I/O Threading, 12x Speed-Up With New AVX2 Code Path
For those making use of the source-available Redis in-memory key-value database, the upcoming Redis 8.0 will offer better performance on today's high core count systems and servers...
2025-01-23 11:05
Debian 15 Is Codenamed "Duke"
With Debian 13 freeze dates announced and that Debian 13.0 "Trixie" release working its way toward release likely around August, it's then to be followed by beginning development on Debian 14 codenamed as "Forky". Yesterday when announcing the Debian T...
2025-01-23 10:04
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned
Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...
2025-01-23 09:00
Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processor...
2025-01-23 08:37