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RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI...
2024-10-29 07:00
Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use
A set of patches are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list for helping to further lower idle power use for Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors...
2024-10-29 06:45
RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support
Thanks to Valve's Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release...
2024-10-29 06:21
Google's Flutter UI Toolkit Forked As Flock
Google's open-source and cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit has been forked by community developers as Flock...
2024-10-29 06:12
AV1 Still Picture Encoding Merged For Mesa 24.3 Radeon Driver
David Rosca working for AMD has continued to improve their open-source video acceleration support within Mesa. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 is the code within the Gallium3D video acceleration front-end and the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for handling AV1 s...
2024-10-29 06:00
Firefox 132 is Out with Modest Set of Changes
Mozilla Firefox 132 is available to download today, arriving a couple of weeks ahead of the browser’s big 20th anniversary milestone. But anyone hoping Firefox 132 would prove itself a veritable birthday piñata, fit to burst with a flurry of new fea...
2024-10-29 00:02
Mozilla Firefox 132 Delivers a Modest Set of Changes
Mozilla Firefox 132 is available to download today, arriving a couple of weeks ahead of the browser’s big 20th anniversary milestone. But anyone hoping Firefox 132 would prove itself a veritable birthday piñata, fit to burst with a flurry of new fea...
2024-10-29 00:02
KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing
KDE developer Vlad Zahorodnii is out with an insightful blog post today on how XWayland window resizing has been enhanced for Plasma 6.3 so that resizing X11 clients will now appear much more polished than the status quo...
2024-10-28 20:34
GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025
The upcoming GNOME 48 "Bengaluru" desktop environment has a release schedule with a release date set for March 19th, 2025. Here’s what to expect! The post GNOME 48 Desktop Environment Release Date Slated for March 19th, 2025 appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2024-10-28 20:31
Unleash new ways of working with flexible, cost-effective VDI
Empower your modern workforce with VDI from HPE and Canonical For years, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has helped power the most complex IT environments—and the technology is still relevant today. After all, VDI allows employees to access thei...
2024-10-28 18:23
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux Memory DDR5 Performance Testing
Following last week's launch testing of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Core Ultra 5 245K Arrow Lake desktop processors, the next area I've been exploring deeper has been the DDR5 memory performance including with CUDIMMs. Here's a closer look at the C...
2024-10-28 14:28
Mozilla Firefox 132 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 132 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 132 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Linux - do ...
2024-10-28 14:10
PCIe TPH Coming With Linux 6.13 To Further Enhance 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance
Going back to earlier in the year AMD Linux engineers have been prepping the kernel for PCI Express TLP Processing Hints (TPH) support that allows for hints that can be injected to improve latency and lowering traffic congestion when there are several ...
2024-10-28 12:56
Canonical at India Mobile Congress 2024 – a retrospective
With an ambition to become Asia’s technology hub for telecommunications in the 5G/6G era, India hosts the annual India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. IMC is an annual trade exhibition for the telecommunication sector, bringing to...
2024-10-28 12:02
Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models
The latest Raspberry Pi OS release enables the Wayland windowing system by default across all models of Raspberry Pi by using the labwc Wayland compositor. The post Raspberry Pi OS Now Enables Wayland by Default on All Raspberry Pi Models appeared firs...
2024-10-28 11:24
Trinity TDE R14.1.3 Lets Linux Users Still Enjoy The KDE 3.5 Desktop Experience
The Trinity Desktop Environment as a still-maintained fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop software is out with a new point release...
2024-10-28 10:53
Firefox 132 Ready With Certificate Compression, Accelerated SVG Filter Primitives
Mozilla Firefox 132.0 release builds are now available for Linux, macOS, and Windows for this newest monthly feature release to this open-source web browser...
2024-10-28 10:46
Sched_ext Scheduler Idle Selection Being Extended For LLC & NUMA Awareness
While the sched_ext extensible scheduler code was merged for Linux 6.12, work on sched_ext itself it is not over. New patches this weekend continue working on NUMA awareness for it with its default idle selection policy while similar work on CPU last l...
2024-10-28 10:12
Imagining the future of Cybersecurity
October 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu. The cybersecurity landscape has significantly shifted since 2004. If you have been following the Ubuntu Security Team’s special three-part series podcast that we put out to mark Cybersecurity Awarene...
2024-10-28 09:55
Qualcomm Adreno Rusticl-Based OpenCL Merged For Mesa 24.3
Another feature to look forward to with this quarter's Mesa 24.3 release is the open-source Freedreno Gallium3D driver for Qualcomm Adreno hardware now supporting Rusticl-based OpenCL compute...
2024-10-28 09:49