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xxHash 0.8.3 Brings Runtime Vector Extension Handling For x86/x86_64

Meta's Yann Collet of Zstd fame is rounding out 2024 by releasing xxHash 0.8.3 as the newest update to this extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm. The xxHash fast hash algorithm pushes for RAM speed limits and with the v0.8.3 update brings mo...

2024-12-30 06:17

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GNOME’s New Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Features

Loupe (aka Image Viewer) is GNOME’s modern successor to the venerable Eye of GNOME has picked up its first batch of image editing features. The features in question were only recently merged upstream, aren’t finished, and not yet included in a stab...

2024-12-30 01:44

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Amarok 3.2 “Punkadiddle” Music Player Officially Released, Now Ported to Qt 6

Amarok 3.2 open-source music player app is now available for download with initial Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 port, as well as other changes. Here's what's new! The post Amarok 3.2 “Punkadiddle” Music Player Officially Released, Now Ported to Qt 6 a...

2024-12-29 21:38

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New Open Source Terminal App Ghostty is Spookily Good

We’re seeing something of a terminal emulator renaissance of late with the humble no-frills console being reimagined, rethought, and rewired to use GPU acceleration, containerised workflows, and (naturally) AI. Ghostty is a new, open-source and cros...

2024-12-29 20:19

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Ghostty: New Open Source Terminal That’s Spookily Good

We’re seeing something of a terminal emulator renaissance of late, with developers keen to reimagine, rethink, and rewire the humble console to leverage GPU acceleration, containerised workflows, and (in some cases) integrate AI/LLMs. Ghostty is a n...

2024-12-29 20:19

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Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week

The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is... Linus Torvalds' birthday on 28 December. Capping off the Linux creator's 55th birthday week is the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel release...

2024-12-29 16:30

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KDE Amarok 3.2 Music Player Released With Initial Qt6/KF6 Support

Back in April was the release of the Amarok 3.0 music player for KDE after a six year hiatus and their first version ported to using the Qt5 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 5. Now in ending out 2024, the Amarok team has released an updated version of this o...

2024-12-29 16:00

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Benchmarking The AMD INVLPGB Linux Kernel Patches For Better Performance

Last weekend a Meta engineer posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. The Linux kernel can in turn invalidate TLB entries on remote CPUs without needing to send IPIs and without having to wa...

2024-12-29 12:35

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Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More

The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025...

2024-12-29 10:15

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Faster USB Performance For xHCI DbC Coming With Linux 6.14 Plus A 10 Year Old Bug Fixed

Thanks to work from Intel engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle will feature faster USB xHCI DbC performance for debug performance and a few other missing xHCI bits being addressed. Plus there is a fix for a rare 10 year old USB bug report...

2024-12-29 09:45

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Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations

From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS shipped and has been well received across enterprises, Canonical engineers have been focusing more on performance optimizations for Ubuntu, and there has been other ...

2024-12-29 07:01

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Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust

Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust. Now with most of the Fish Shell code transitioned to Rust, the project put out a blog post this weekend outlining the successes and challenges they have encountered ...

2024-12-29 06:53

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Apple DWI Backlight Linux Driver Updated For Various iPhones, iPods & iPads

While Linux 6.13 is introducing basic support for various Apple iPads and iPhones using A-series SoCs, the support is just that: basic. Various feature limitations remain for those dreaming over the prospects of running Linux on older Apple mobile devi...

2024-12-29 06:49

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Linux 6.13-rc5 To See Fix For Intel TDX CoCo VMs Potentially Leaking Decrypted Memory

The x86 fixes pull request was sent out this morning ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel being released later today. Both x86 fixes this week pertain to Intel bits: a self-test issue on upcoming Intel FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) systems an...

2024-12-29 06:24

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NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024

This year NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver enjoyed much more robust Wayland support, their open-source kernel modules have matured greatly and are now being used by default, and their proprietary Vulkan and OpenGL drivers remain in good standing...

2024-12-28 11:37

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A "Safe C++" Being Explored Using The New ClangIR

An interesting "request for comments" proposal I have been meaning to write about since last month is in-development work developing "Safe C++" as an extension to the LLVM Clang compiler and making use of the new, in-development ClangIR...

2024-12-28 09:00

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FFmpeg Lands Improved Support For Flash Video "FLV" With Multi-Track Audio/Video

It wasn't on my bingo card for end of year 2024 but the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library has seen a new round of improvements to the Flash Video (FLV) support...

2024-12-28 08:45

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Fedora's Captivating 2024 With Many New Features & Leading Innovations

The Fedora Linux distribution had another great year with the successful releases of Fedora 40 and Fedora 41 that were both rather polished and largely on-time -- something that couldn't be said frequently of Fedora releases long ago. Fedora Linux has ...

2024-12-28 06:41

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FSF Encouraging Pressure Campaign On Microsoft For 2025

Looking for a 2025 New Year's resolution? The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is encouraging a pressure campaign on Microsoft to continue...

2024-12-28 06:33

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GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released With Bug Fixes Plus A Few Last Minute Features

The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 image editing program that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop will not see its stable release in 2024... But just before the New Year, the GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available for testing...

2024-12-27 19:16

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