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Tails 6.8 Introduces File System Repair When Unlocking Persistent Storage
Tails 6.8 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with a new file system repair feature and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Tails 6.8 Introduces File System Repair When Unlocking Persistent Storage appeared f...
2024-10-08 13:32
KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment is now available with Wayland color management support, per-monitor brightness control, full Sticky Keys support on Wayland, and more. The post KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s...
2024-10-08 10:43
Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are...
2024-10-08 10:40
Intel's Rendering Toolkit Turns To More Open, Community-Welcoming Development Model
Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to pr...
2024-10-08 09:51
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released With More Desktop Polishing
KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...
2024-10-08 06:58
A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2
Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...
2024-10-08 06:43
LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa
While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...
2024-10-08 06:19
Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times
Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...
2024-10-08 06:05
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs,...
2024-10-07 20:44
OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...
2024-10-07 19:19
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well a...
2024-10-07 16:09
Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT
Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...
2024-10-07 13:57
Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews
Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...
2024-10-07 12:45
Development start of Leap 16.0
Hello everyone! I’d like to announce the start of development and the public availability of what we currently refer to as Leap 16.0 pre-Alpha. Since this is a pre-Alpha version, significant changes may occur, and the final product may look very diff...
2024-10-07 12:00
KDE Plasma 6.2 Released, This is What’s New
A new major update to the KDE Plasma desktop has been released, and it’s jam-packed with new features, enhancements, and performance-focused improvements. Serving as the third release in the new 6.x series, KDE Plasma 6.2 builds on the foundations in...
2024-10-07 11:20
Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...
2024-10-07 10:47
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 6th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 6th, 2024, brings news about Firefox 131, Linux Mint 22.1 release date, FFmpeg 7.1, fwupd 2.0, Audacious 4.4.1, qBittorrent 5.0, Ardour 8.8, NetworkManager 1.50, Firefox 132 beta, as well as all the latest distr...
2024-10-07 10:37
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...
2024-10-07 08:56
RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API
RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...
2024-10-07 08:47
The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10
For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...
2024-10-07 06:54