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Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 Brings More Battlemage Optimizations
The Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 release was made earlier today as the newest update to this open-source Linux and Windows compute stack for Intel graphics hardware for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero implementations...
2025-01-09 13:39
Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund
Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects...
2025-01-09 12:23
KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE Apps
KDE Gear 24.12.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.1 Is Out to Improve Dolphin, Kate, NeoChat, and Other KDE ...
2025-01-09 12:21
Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes
Tails 6.11 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with support for detecting partitioning errors and fixes for critical vulnerabilities. The post Tails 6.11 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Critical Security Fixes appe...
2025-01-09 11:21
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements
Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop...
2025-01-09 11:05
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD
The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB model is now available for sale at $120 USD as a more powerful variant of the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer. The post Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Is Now Available at $120 USD appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce t...
2025-01-09 10:47
Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution known as Azure Linux is out with its 3.0.20250102 update today. One of the interesting changes in this release is adding new AMD driver package repositories for allowing Azure Linux users to fetch the latest offi...
2025-01-09 10:28
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 Brings Power/Performance vs. Color Accuracy Preference
KDE developers today released Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 as the newest feature update to this set of non-standard Wayland protocols used by the Plasma desktop...
2025-01-09 08:40
How we used Flask and 12-factor charms to simplify Canonical.com development
Learn how Canonical is using Python Flask and the 12-factor charm framework to simplify the development of Canonical.com and Ubuntu.com
2025-01-09 07:21
Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards
The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards...
2025-01-09 07:00
LLVM Clang Lands Targeting Support For The SiFive P550 RISC-V Performance Core
Upstreamed to LLVM/Clang overnight is now targeting support for the SiFive P550 RISC-V core with the "-mcpu=sifive-p550" option...
2025-01-09 06:51
GNOME Mutter Merges Support For Wayland Timing & Queuing Protocols
After being in development the past year, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of GNOME 48 is support for the Wayland timing and queueing protocols...
2025-01-09 06:32
Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements
Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.36 as the newest update to this open-source linker that aims to deliver maximum performance at all costs...
2025-01-09 06:21
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Launches For $120 USD
One of the leading rare complaints over the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer (and the more recently launched Raspberry Pi 500) is that it tops out at just 8GB of system memory... 8GB was enough years ago and still is if planning to use the Raspberr...
2025-01-09 03:00
Scribus 1.6.3 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Bug Fixes
Scribus 1.6.3 free, open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various bug and crash fixes. Here's what's new! The post Scribus 1.6.3 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Bug Fixes appeared first on 9...
2025-01-08 23:34
Redox OS Ends 2024 On A High Note With Dynamic Linking Progress, ifconfig Port
The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their December 2024 development recap. The developers involved did a great job ending out 2024 with a lot of exciting improvements for this scratch-based open-source operating system...
2025-01-08 20:24
Intel's Clang Code Begins Landing For OpenMP Offloading To SPIR-V For GPU Execution
Intel software engineers have been working on allowing OpenMP offloading to their Intel GPUs by way of targeting generic SPIR-V, the common intermediate representation used across Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers. The initial patches to that work have ...
2025-01-08 16:47
Web Engineering: Hack Week 2024
At Canonical, the work of our teams is strongly embedded in the open source principles and philosophy. We believe open source software will become the most prevalent method of software development and delivery in the future. Being open source is more t...
2025-01-08 13:50
Linux 6.14 Preps UHBR For Intel Panther Lake, Lower Alchemist GPU Power Use With Whitelisted CPUs
Intel software engineers this week sent out two pull requests landing more of their final kernel graphics driver feature changes destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-08 10:10
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - December 2024
Tumbleweed continues to exemplify a solid rolling release and December 2024 wraps up a year of several snapshots and large array of updates! KDE Gear 24.12 improves app usability, SQLite introduces innovative query features and snapshots brought critic...
2025-01-08 09:00