Linux

Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video...
2024-11-21 05:50
Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"
While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board...
2024-11-20 22:34
Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards...
2024-11-20 20:22
Ubuntu? That’s a Bullfinch, Not an Oriole
Here’s something a little lighthearted—unless you’re pedantic about ornithology, in which case you won’t be so chirpy: it seems a Bullfinch found its way into Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’. Did someone leave a window open?! If you upgraded...
2024-11-20 18:30
Linux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations
Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements...
2024-11-20 14:42
Join Canonical in London at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is excited to be partnering with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – London, taking place on 26th November. This prestigious event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest adv...
2024-11-20 13:48
Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance
The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements...
2024-11-20 13:22
8 vs. 12 Channel DDR5-6000 Memory Performance With AMD 5th Gen EPYC
As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance ...
2024-11-20 11:40
Raspberry Pi Camera Front End "CFE" Video Capture With Linux 6.13
Following the initial Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support in Linux 6.12 providing basic support, an exciting Raspberry Pi addition with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is introducing a Raspberry Pi Camera Front-End "CFE" driver...
2024-11-20 10:32
Many AMD CPU Feature Additions Land In Linux 6.13
The in-development Linux 6.13 kernel is bringing a lot of exciting improvements for AMD Linux customers...
2024-11-20 10:18
Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha is now available. Get ready for Leap Micro 5.5 End of Life.
Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Unless some serious issues are found, users can expect a quick transition to GA within a few weeks. About Leap Micro Leap Micro 6.1 is a rebranded SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1 which is an...
2024-11-20 10:00
Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10
The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-functional hardware to operating systems that can extend the life of their laptops, desktops or other d...
2024-11-20 09:00
OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage
Intel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit...
2024-11-20 08:34
Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs
The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors...
2024-11-20 06:34
Multigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact
Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in ...
2024-11-20 06:10
Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...
2024-11-20 06:00
Blender 4.3 Brings Hardware-Accelerated Ray-Tracing to Linux
Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to! Blender 4.3 is the latest stable release of the phenomenally powerful open-source 3D modelling software. Its creators sa...
2024-11-19 22:31
Blender 4.3 Brings Vulkan Backend, AMD Ray-Tracing to Linux
Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to! Blender 4.3 is the latest stable release of the phenomenally powerful open-source 3D modelling software. Its creators sa...
2024-11-19 22:31
Lazy Preemption Merged Along With Other Scheduler Improvements For Linux 6.13
All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model...
2024-11-19 20:43
Canonical provides the ideal platform for Microsoft Azure IoT Operations
London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data p...
2024-11-19 18:05