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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 27th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 27th, 2024, brings news about GNOME 47..1, OpenSSL 3.4, Tor Browser 14, KDE Plasma 6.2.2, PeaZip 10 , Parrot OS 6.2, Thelio Astra, AlmaLinux OS Kitten, Ubuntu turns 20, as well as all the latest distro and softw...
2024-10-28 09:21
Raspberry Pi OS Now Using Wayland By Default On All Models
Over the past year we have seen Raspberry Pi working a lot on Wayland support for the Raspberry Pi OS desktop and using it on their latest Raspberry Pi models. With today's new Raspberry Pi OS update, Wayland is being used by default across all Raspber...
2024-10-28 08:37
Intel Preps Linux Driver For Upgraded Display Capabilities With New Hardware
While the Linux 6.12 kernel enables Intel Xe2 Battlemage discrete GPU support out-of-the-box as a sign of its maturing state, there are a number of patches for the open-source Battlemage driver support that are ongoing. One of the areas seeing some pat...
2024-10-28 08:28
AMD STB Support Extended To Latest Ryzen 9000 Series Desktop CPUs
It turns out the latest AMD Ryzen desktop processors offer support for AMD Smart Trace Buffer (STB) that previously was only limited to mobile platforms...
2024-10-28 06:39
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q3 Brings Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Support
Intel has issued their newest quarterly feature release of their FFmpeg Cartwheel, which is their developer staging area of new video acceleration related patches for Intel graphics hardware that they are working to upstream within the widely-used, ope...
2024-10-28 06:25
Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements
Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop...
2024-10-28 00:00
Tiling Shell Update Adds Custom Window Border Colour + More
I’m a fan of the Tiling Shell GNOME Shell extension because it’s both good at what it does, but good at not being one-size-fits-all: users can tile window using a mouse and drop zones, with keyboard shortcuts, or with both – options for everyone....
2024-10-27 22:14
Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix
Following a busy week of kernel drama stemming from the Russian sanctions impacting Linux maintainers, Linus Torvalds is out with the Linux 6.12-rc5 weekly test candidate...
2024-10-27 19:31
Geckium is an Uncannily Accurate Chrome Theme for Firefox
Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups and hassle of trying to run an old browser on a modern OS? Honestly? You probably don’t, but after checking out what the Geckium project can do, you ...
2024-10-27 17:28
Make Firefox Look Like Classic Google Chrome with Geckium Theme
Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups or hassle involved in trying to run old software on a newer OS? Honestly, you probably don’t – but after checking out what the Geckium project can ...
2024-10-27 17:28
Geckium Turns Modern Firefox into Vintage Google Chrome
Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups or hassle involved in trying to run old software on a newer OS? Honestly, you probably don’t – but after checking out what the Geckium project can ...
2024-10-27 17:28
Linux Working On A Counter To Keep Track Of The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot
Sent out in original patch form this past week and already iterated to a second version this Sunday, a new proposal is underway to introduce "hung_task_detect_count" as a convenient means of tracking the number of times hung tasks are detected since bo...
2024-10-27 09:24
Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns
Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. LAM can be useful for virtual machines, sanitizers / profiling / mem...
2024-10-27 07:30
Intel's PCIe Cooling Driver Ready For Linux 6.13 To Reduce Bandwidth When Running Hot
For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width wh...
2024-10-27 07:01
Linux NETFS Patches Help With CIFS Performance, Single Blob Objects
The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support...
2024-10-27 06:27
DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption
In addition to Eric Biggers of Google being busy working on various crypto and hashing performance optimizations, the longtime Linux developer has also been working on "dm-inlinecrypt" for better leveraging inline block device encryption...
2024-10-27 06:15
Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...
2024-10-26 13:55
Leap, Tumbleweed Get Makeovers
Branding for Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 are moving along with the creation of a visual identity for these two distinct operating system flavors. For two of openSUSE’s most notable Linux distributions, there is an updated logo and new digital wallpaper ...
2024-10-26 10:00
PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More
PeaZip 10 open-source archive manager is now available for download with a revamped GUI engine, compression pre-sets, updates menus, and more. Here's what's new! The post PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More appear...
2024-10-26 09:53
Initial Intel Xe3 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Code Submitted For Mesa 24.3
With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for...
2024-10-26 09:35