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Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 Fixes Lunar Lake OpenCL, Disables Ice Lake & Older
Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux...
2024-10-22 06:46
Suggestion Raised For Using PGO + LLVM BOLT To Optimize More Fedora Packages
Outside of the likes of the Arch Linux based CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux there aren't too many distributions that widely rely on aggressive compiler optimizations in the name of bettering the system performance. A suggestion was raised recently tho...
2024-10-22 06:33
Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASM, Interpreter Mode Support
For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...
2024-10-22 06:16
Wasmer 5.0-rc1 Adds Experimental Support For WASMI, Interpreter Mode Support
For those interested in the prospects of WebAssembly for being able to write "universal apps" that can run anywhere, Wasmer as one of the leading WASM runtimes is closing in on its v5.0 feature release...
2024-10-22 06:16
Calibre eBook Manager Intros New PDF Conversion Engine
Open source ebook manager Calibre has a new release out. Calibre 7.2.0 ships with a brand new PDF input engine (used to convert PDF files into other ebook formats, such as EPUB or MOBI). It’s now able to handle “automatic detection of headers and f...
2024-10-22 00:24
Clementine Music Player Sees First Non-Preview Release in 8 Years
Remember Clementine music player? Well, it appears to be back – some 8 years after its last stable release. If Clementine feels like it’s slipped out of public consciousness it’s understandable: the last stable release was in 2016 (v1.3.1). Yet b...
2024-10-21 23:26
SysVinit 3.11 Released With An "Important Feature" At Long Last
For those still managing to avoid systemd use on Linux systems and preferring SysVinit as their init system of choice, SysVinit 3.11 is out today with a new "important feature" addition...
2024-10-21 20:52
4 cool new projects to try in Copr for October 2024
Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects for various purposes and audiences. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already being transitioned to the official Fedora Linux repositori...
2024-10-21 17:07
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board Update
Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board...
2024-10-21 14:27
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch
On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behav...
2024-10-21 12:00
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 20th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 20th, 2024, brings news about Solus 4.6, Clonezilla Live 3.2, KDE Plasma 6.2.1, fwupd 2.0.1, Ardour 8.10, Calibre 7.20, PorteuX 1.7, VirtualBox 7.1.4 adding initial Linux 6.12 support, as well as all the latest ...
2024-10-21 09:45
AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default
Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving ...
2024-10-21 09:00
Intel IWD 3.0 Wireless Daemon Released For Linux Systems
Intel's iNet Wireless Daemon (IWD) for Linux systems is out with a v3.0 release for this featureful and modern alternative to WPA_Supplicant...
2024-10-21 08:40
Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions o...
2024-10-21 06:55
Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine
Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows program...
2024-10-21 06:27
Unvanquished 0.55 Released With Big Performance Optimizations For Its Engine
The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvemen...
2024-10-21 06:18
Meson 1.6 Build System Adds Support For Flang & OpenXL Compilers
Meson 1.6 was published on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular cross-platform build system...
2024-10-21 06:08
Ada Lovelace Day 2024 - Interview with some Women in Debian
Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and conce...
2024-10-21 00:01
Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.7 Launches with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47.1, and More
PorteuX 1.7 distribution is now available for download based on Slackware Linux, powered by Linux kernel 6.11, and featuring the GNOME 47.1 and KDE Plasma 6.2.1 desktop environments. Here's what's new! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.7 Launches with...
2024-10-20 22:21
Linux 6.12-rc4 Released With MSI Claw A1M Controller Support, Intel & AMD Fixes
Linux 6.12-rc4 is out today as the half-way point to releasing the Linux 6.12 stable kernel around this time of the month in November...
2024-10-20 18:53