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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
KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Is Out Now to Improve Compatibility with Specific Hardware
KDE Plasma 6.2.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series adding more fixes for issues affecting certain hardware setups. The post KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Is Out Now to Improve Compatibility wit...
2024-10-22 14:12
What is Ubuntu used for?
The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and...
2024-10-22 13:38
OpenSSL 3.4 Released with Initial Attribute Certificate (RFC 5755) Support
OpenSSL 3.4 is now available for download with support for QLog for tracing QUIC connections, limited support for polling of QUIC connections and stream objects in a non-blocking manner, and more. The post OpenSSL 3.4 Released with Initial Attribute Ce...
2024-10-22 12:52
AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10
AlmaLinux Kitten 10 has been introduced today as what will be the next iteration of this community-based, RHEL/CentOS-derived enterprise-grade Linux distribution. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is tracking the CentOS Stream 10 sources for what will eventually bec...
2024-10-22 12:15
System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop
System76 is announcing one of their most innovative and interesting products going back to their Launch Configurable Keyboard and HP Dev One collaboration: the System76 Thelio Astra. The Thelio Astra is a high-end ARM64 desktop system geared for develo...
2024-10-22 11:00