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Many Scheduler Improvements Ready To Better Enhance The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Ingo Molnar sent out the big batch of scheduler enhancements bright and early today for helping kick off the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-01-20 06:37

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Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Query Support

The "TURNIP" open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs...

2025-01-20 06:26

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Linux 6.14 Adding "STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN" To Address A Performance Pitfall

Among the VFS pull requests sent out this weekend in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window formally opening were the VFS direct I/O (DIO) updates that introduce a new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN field for addressing a possible performance pitfall...

2025-01-20 06:19

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Linux Kernel 6.13 Released with Big Changes

The first new kernel release of the year has arrived — yes, Linux 6.13 has gone stable. Linux kernel 6.13 adds, as ever, a vast array of improvements, from an updated Raspberry Pi graphics driver promising speed gains, to lazy preemption logic, expan...

2025-01-20 01:08

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Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Linux kernel 6.13 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new! The post Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Releas...

2025-01-19 23:59

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Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2025.1 Is Out with Linux 6.12, Rhino Stampede, and More

Rhino Linux 2025.1 distribution is now available for download with new GRUB theme, dynamic workspaces, Linux kernel 6.12, new testing meta-package, Pacstall changes, and more. The post Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2025.1 Is Out with Linux 6.12, Rhino Stamp...

2025-01-19 20:20

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Linux 6.13 Released With AutoFDO + Propeller, AMD Changes & Broader Apple Support

As anticipated the Linux 6.13 kernel was promoted to stable today with an on-time release and in turn also marking the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window. Linux 6.13 stable has plenty of fine features for this first major kernel release of 2025...

2025-01-19 19:00

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Linux To Allow Adjusting pid_max Per PID Namespace - Helping Old Software

The pid_max tunable for the maximum number of process IDs allowed simultaneously was increased by default back in 2019 with systemd. But that increase breaks a long held assumption by some user-space software that pid_max or the process ID would not be...

2025-01-19 06:53

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A Last Minute Fix For EEVDF Scheduling Lag With Linux 6.13

Ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable kernel expected to be released later today, there is a last minute fix for the EEVDF CPU scheduler...

2025-01-19 06:31

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Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 Brings Improved Compatibility, New Performance Optimizations

Following the release a few days ago of GNU Coreutils 9.6, the Rust Coreutils "uutils" project as a re-implementation of these core utilities within the Rust programming language is out with a fresh update...

2025-01-19 06:15

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Linux 6.14 EDAC Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest, Adds LoongArch Driver For ECC Memory

The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been sent out in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening...

2025-01-19 05:57

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Dillo 3.2 Open-Source Web Browser Released to Celebrate 25th Anniversary

Dillo 3.2 open-source web browser is now available for download with SVG support for math formulas, support for WebP images, and more. Here's what's new! The post Dillo 3.2 Open-Source Web Browser Released to Celebrate 25th Anniversary appeared first o...

2025-01-18 17:56

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New "mountinfo" Program Set To Be Bundled With Linux 6.14

The VFS mount pull request was sent out today in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening. One of the changes here is adding a new mountinfo program to the Linux kernel source tree...

2025-01-18 16:09

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QH Electronics Game Controller Support Being Added For Linux 6.14

Thanks to Valve, another Xbox 360-compatible game controller will see support with the upstream XPad input driver with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...

2025-01-18 12:24

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Linux 6.14 To Perform Better With The Drgn Debugger Via Faster /proc/kcore Reads

Christian Brauner of Microsoft began sending out his various pull requests today of new material for the Linux 6.14 kernel in advance of the merge window expected to open next week. One of the interesting pull requests is carrying the work of Omar Sand...

2025-01-18 10:04

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GNU Debugger GDB 16.1 Brings Better Intel PT Support, gstack Added

GDB 16.1 was tagged today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for helping debug a variety of programming languages on numerous different CPU architectures and platforms...

2025-01-18 09:29

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How to upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1

It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22 to version 22.1. If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience. 1. Create a system snapshot You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade. If anything goes ...

2025-01-18 08:41

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Intel Tofino P4 Software Open-Sourced Years Later

An interesting open-source announcement out of Intel this week is that they have open-sourced their P4 software for their line of Tofino programmable Ethernet switches...

2025-01-18 07:24

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GNOME Snapshot Can Now Read QR Codes, Flatpak 1.16 Brings More Features

It was a busy week in the GNOME space with many packages checking in their "48.alpha" releases for the GNOME 48 Alpha milestone. Plus there has been some additional exciting GNOME developments for the week...

2025-01-18 06:53

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Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least

Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 a...

2025-01-18 06:42

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