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Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ Launches: 26 TOPS Accelerator For $110
Following the launch of the Raspberry Pi AI Kit back during the summer with up to 13 TOPS performance for AI inference, the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ was announced today with up to 26 TOPS capabilities...
2024-10-24 06:16
Raspberry Pi Launch Own-Brand SSDs Priced From $30
One of the best things about the Raspberry Pi 5 (other than the performance boost over its predecessor) is how much simpler it is to add an SSD. And if you’re running a full desktop OS like Ubuntu you should use an SSD: startup times are blazingly fa...
2024-10-24 00:44
Parrot OS 6.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Introduces Launcher for Docker Containers
Parrot OS 6.2 Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing is now available for download with new and updated tools. Here's what's new! The post Parrot OS 6.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Introduces Launcher for Docker Containers appeared f...
2024-10-23 17:28
Intel Core Ultra 7 "Lunar Lake" Performance Up By ~22% With ASUS Linux Fix
Following the ASUS AIPT patch posting this weekend from an Intel Linux engineer that was analyzing my previously-published Lunar Lake results showing rather poor performance on the ASUS Zenbook S 14, the performance has been looking much better. On Mon...
2024-10-23 15:00
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matte...
2024-10-23 14:00
Join Canonical in Brazil at Dell Technologies Forum São Paulo
Canonical is excited to be a part of the Dell Technologies Forum in São Paulo on October 30th. This exclusive event brings together industry leaders to explore the latest technological advancements. Register to Dell Technologies Forum – São Paulo U...
2024-10-23 12:24
6 facts for CentOS users who are holding on
Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Find six useful facts to get started!
2024-10-23 12:23
Gentoo Linux Touts DTrace 2.0 Support
More than a decade ago the DTrace tracing framework from Sun Microsystems was one of the long sought features from Solaris desired by Linux developers. Oracle ended up porting DTrace to Linux over the years but without too much fanfare outside of Oracl...
2024-10-23 10:53
Workshop Continues with GNOME Extensions
The openSUSE Project will live-stream Episode 10 of it Contribution Workshop series on Oct. 24 at 18:00 UTC on openSUSE’s YouTube and X platforms for a GNOME Extensions workshop. The session will cover how to enhance and customize the GNOME desktop e...
2024-10-23 10:00
Significant CRC32C Throughput Optimization On The Way To The Linux Kernel
Google engineer Eric Biggers has worked on some very nice performance optimizations for the crypto code within the Linux kernel such as faster AES-GCM for Intel and AMD CPUs, much faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption with modern CPUs, and many other opt...
2024-10-23 09:56
Intel Preps PXP GuC Auto-Teardown & Improvements For Old iGPUs With Linux 6.13
Intel engineers this morning sent out their newest pull request of "drm-intel-gt-next" material to queue in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window. There is a new feature enabled on newer Intel graphics hardware as well as some improvem...
2024-10-23 06:45
Linux 6.13 To Default To AMD P-State Driver For EPYC 9005 CPUs
It was just earlier this week that AMD posted Linux patches to switch EPYC over to using the AMD P-State driver rather than the long-used generic ACPI CPUFreq driver. This should lead to better power efficiency out-of-the-box and is a change being made...
2024-10-23 06:32
Cloudflare Continues To Praise Open-Source OpenBMC
It was just one and a half years ago that Cloudflare began rolling out OpenBMC on their massive array of servers to replace traditional proprietary Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware stacks. Since the end of last year they've been talking u...
2024-10-23 06:16
Intel Upstreams Firmware For Newer WiFi Chipsets On Linux
Intel has upstreamed the firmware for their "BlazarU" core to linux-firmware.git for improving the out-of-the-box wireless experience with newer Intel WiFi adapters...
2024-10-23 06:07
GNOME 47.1 Released to Improve Quick Settings Accessibility and Display Scaling
GNOME 47.1 is now available as the first point release to the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment series adding improvements and fixing bugs. Here's what's changed! The post GNOME 47.1 Released to Improve Quick Settings Accessibility and Display Scalin...
2024-10-23 01:21
Tor Browser 14.0 Anonymous Web Browser Is Out Based on Firefox 128 ESR
Tor Browser 14.0 open-source anonymous web browser is now available for download based on the Mozilla Firefox ESR 128 series. Here's what's new! The post Tor Browser 14.0 Anonymous Web Browser Is Out Based on Firefox 128 ESR appeared first on 9to5Linux...
2024-10-23 00:15
The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar
The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and trainin...
2024-10-23 00:00
Rust-Written Rustls Now Reportedly Outperforming OpenSSL & BoringSSL
Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster...
2024-10-22 16:36
System76 Unveils the Thelio Astra ARM64 Ampere-Powered Desktop Computer
System76 unveils the Thelio Astra desktop computer powered by an Ampere Altra ARM64 processor and NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPU for autonomous driving and software-defined vehicle developers. The post System76 Unveils the Thelio Astra ARM64 Ampere-Powered De...
2024-10-22 14:32
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers...
2024-10-22 14:22