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NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14
Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronizat...
2025-01-12 07:50
Enlightenment 0.27 Released For This 28 Year Old Window Manager / Compositor
Just over one year since the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 window manager, this weekend Carsten Haitzler released the Enlightenment 0.27 window manager and Wayland compositor. Enlightenment continues going now 28 years in development by Rasterman!..
2025-01-12 06:39
Linux cpupower Utility To See Improved AMD Support With Linux 6.14 Kernel
The cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel will see better reporting capabilities on modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...
2025-01-12 06:31
Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features
Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts...
2025-01-12 06:14
Sigil 2.4 Open-Source EPUB Ebook Editor Released with New Features and Bug Fixes
Sigil 2.4 open-source and cross-platform EPUB ebook editor is now available for download with new features and bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Sigil 2.4 Open-Source EPUB Ebook Editor Released with New Features and Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to...
2025-01-11 21:31
Debian 12.9 “Bookworm” Arrives with 72 Bug Fixes and 38 Security Updates
Debian 12.9 is now available for download with 72 bug fixes and 38 security updates for the Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series. The post Debian 12.9 “Bookworm” Arrives with 72 Bug Fixes and 38 Security Updates appeared first...
2025-01-11 14:59
Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities
Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AM...
2025-01-11 13:00
Monthly News – December 2024
Hi everyone, The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 is now over. 115 reports were received and many bugs were fixed. Many thanks for your help during this beta-test! After a few days of QA testing we’ll be ready to publish the stable release. The new fea...
2025-01-11 12:24
Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes
Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages...
2025-01-11 10:32
AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs
On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2025-01-11 08:54
Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14
This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Has...
2025-01-11 07:07
GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress
GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...
2025-01-11 06:45
Sony Proposes Changing LLVM Clang Default To C++20 Mode
Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...
2025-01-11 06:33
KDE Plasma 6.3 Bringing A More Consistent Close Button, Other Last Minute Changes
This week brought the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta as well as a number of last minute feature changes for this desktop update due for release in February...
2025-01-11 06:13
Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support
Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...
2025-01-10 20:37
Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes
Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes...
2025-01-10 16:53
Linux Foundation & Google Form New Group to Manage Chromium
Google is teaming up with the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Meta, and Opera to form a new Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers group. Members of the group, managed by the Linux Foundation, will work together, pool resources, talent, time, and expertise...
2025-01-10 16:45
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board
Canonical partners with SiFive and ESWIN Computing to enable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board. The post Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board appeared first on 9to5Linux - do ...
2025-01-10 14:35
Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%
Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches worki...
2025-01-10 14:17
Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System
Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system...
2025-01-10 13:40