Linux

Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.12
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.12. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday, December 01,...
2024-11-29 08:00
Linux 6.13 Staging Clears Out 107k Lines Of Code From Old & Unmaintained Drivers
Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users o...
2024-11-29 06:43
FFmpeg Git Continues Landing A Number Of Vulkan Video Enhancements
A number of Vulkan Video enhancements landed this week in FFmpeg Git thanks to open-source developer Lynne that has been advancing the Vulkan Video encode/decode capabilities in this widely-used multimedia library...
2024-11-29 06:34
Phoronix Black Friday Reminders
Just a quick reminder this "Black Friday" if you would like to help show your support...
2024-11-29 06:07
UBports' Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Atop Ubuntu 20.04 Released
The UBports community today released Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 as the latest version of the smartphone/tablet Linux platform currently running off an Ubuntu 20.04 base...
2024-11-29 05:54
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Joachim Bauch (fancycode) Alexander Kjäll (capitol) Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers ...
2024-11-28 18:00
Mozilla Announce Smaller, Faster Browser Downloads For Linux
Firefox fans on Linux will enjoy smaller download sizes and faster decompressing when using the official binary builds from the Mozilla website. The browser maker today announced its switching to the tar.xz format to distribute its Linux builds, which ...
2024-11-28 16:15
Mozilla Announce Smaller, Faster Firefox Downloads For Linux
Firefox fans on Linux will enjoy smaller download sizes and faster decompressing when using the official binary builds from the Mozilla website. The browser maker today announced its switching to the tar.xz format — yes, that xz —to distribute its ...
2024-11-28 16:15
Project to have AMA with SUSE’s GM
The openSUSE community is invited to an online engagement with SUSE’s General Manager for Business Critical Linux on Dec. 3 at 16:00 UTC. Rick Spencer, who leads the SUSE Linux Enterprise and SUSE Multi-Linux Manager teams, works closely with those c...
2024-11-28 16:00
Updated Ubuntu 24.10 Install Image Released For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptops
In mid-October was the release of a developer preview for Ubuntu 24.10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops. Yesterday an updated Ubuntu 24.10 release was made available catering to these popular, current-generation ARM-powered laptops that typica...
2024-11-28 14:45
Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment Released with Revamped Theme, Night Light
Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment is now available with a revamped theme, Night Light feature, and many other changes. Here's what's new! The post Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment Released with Revamped Theme, Night Light appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2024-11-28 13:28
NFS Server Scalability Improvement & Other NFS Enhancements For Linux 6.13
There are a few Network File System (NFS) enhancements worth pointing out with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel...
2024-11-28 13:00
Linux Kernel Performance Bottlenecks Spotted By Mold Developer
Open-source developer Rui Ueyama who is the lead developer of the Mold high performance linker and previously on the LLVM lld linker has written a detailed mailing list post that highlights some observed performance bottlenecks within the Linux kernel...
2024-11-28 09:32
Intel Graphics Compiler Removes Support For Ice Lake & Older
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL GPU compute support as well as being depended upon by the Windows 3D driver stack has now removed platform support up to and including Ice Lake...
2024-11-28 07:18
Mozilla Firefox Switches To .tar.xz For Linux Packaging
It's not any shiny new web browser feature but Mozilla announced they are moving from .tar.bz2 packages for their Firefox Linux binaries over to using .tar.xz for a faster and lighter experience...
2024-11-28 06:51
LLVM Merges Support The For Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon-D8 RISC-V CPU
Adding to the interesting code building up for next spring's release of the LLVM 20 compiler stack is having the Tenstorrent TT-Ascalon D8 as the newest RISC-V processor target...
2024-11-28 06:42
IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13
Merged last week back toward the start of the Linux 6.13 merge window were a number of interesting IO_uring enhancements for this first major kernel version of 2025...
2024-11-28 06:30
Feature-Packed systemd 257 Nears Release With RC3 Availability
Systemd 257 is nearing release as the next major feature release for this widely-used init system and software suite on Linux systems...
2024-11-27 20:52
exFAT Driver With Linux 6.13 Reduces FAT Chain Traversal For Better Performance
For those making use of the Microsoft exFAT file-system on Linux systems, the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel brings an optimization that will help some operations by reducing the FAT chain traversal...
2024-11-27 20:27
AMD Begins Work Upstreaming More Versal 2 SoC Support For Linux
Back in April AMD announced the Versal Gen 2 Adaptive SoCs for AI-driven embedded systems. In preparing for Versal2 evaluation kits expected around the middle of the year and production silicon by the end of 2025, AMD software engineers have begun ramp...
2024-11-27 14:40