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Decentralized AI: A Path Toward an Open and Human-Centered Future
In August, I had the pleasure of speaking on the topic of decentralized computing, the failed promise of the Internet, the emergence of autonomous AI agents, and the upcoming launch of LF Decentralized Trust. My presentation was deeply personal, inspi...
2024-12-16 17:25
Xfce 4.20 Released, This is What’s New
Christmas has arrived early for fans of the Xfce desktop environment with the release of a major new version. Two years in development, Xfce 4.20 is the latest stable release of this lightweight desktop environment.  A clutch of new features, visual ...
2024-12-16 15:26
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released, This is What’s New
Christmas has arrived early for fans of the Xfce desktop environment, with the release of a major new version. Two years in development, Xfce 4.20 serves as the latest stable release of the revered lightweight desktop environment. New features, visua...
2024-12-16 15:26
Xfce 4.20 Released with New Features, Settings + More
Christmas has arrived early for fans of the Xfce desktop environment, with the release of a major new version. Two years in development, Xfce 4.20 serves as the latest stable release of the revered lightweight desktop environment. New features, visua...
2024-12-16 15:26
Git 2.48-rc0 Released With git-fsck Warning Over "Curiously Formatted" Ref Contents
Git maintainer Junio Hamano today announced Git 2.48-rc0 as the first test release toward the Git 2.48 distributed version control system release...
2024-12-16 14:30
Jumbo Data Packet Transmission & RACK-TLP Coming To Linux 6.14 Network Stack
Queued up this past week within the Linux kernel's networking subsystem for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is transmission handling for jumbo data packets as well as RACK-TLP support for managing packet loss and re-transmission. This is work toward supp...
2024-12-16 13:36
Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.8 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Xfce 4.20
PorteuX 1.8 is now available for download as the first distribution to ship with the Xfce 4.20 desktop environment. Here's what else is new in this release! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.8 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Xfce 4.20 appeare...
2024-12-16 11:46
Monthly News – November 2024
Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying the BETA so far! This release introduces new features, tools, and artwork, so we anticipate a good number of bug reports. Every single fix helps us refine and improve the final release. Your feedback during the BETA...
2024-12-16 11:30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta Performance Looks Great - Initial RHEL 9 vs. RHEL 10 Benchmarks
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 now in public beta this month, I have begun testing out the RHEL 10 beta on a few systems in the lab. In this first look at RHEL 10 performance is seeing how well the RHEL 10 beta is performing relative to RHEL 9.5 stab...
2024-12-16 10:45
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 15th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 15th, 2024, brings news about Xfce 4.20, Linux Mint 22.1 beta, Raspberry Pi 500, CentOS Stream 10, QEMU 9.2, OpenMandriva Lx 24.12, GNOME 46.7, Proton 9.0-4, KDE Gear 24.12, KDE Frameworks 6.9, as well as all t...
2024-12-16 10:21
Linux 6.14 Looks To Support AMD's Zen 5 RMPREAD Instruction & Segmented RMP Mode
For further enhancing the AMD EPYC virtualization experience on Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.14 looks like it will support Zen 5's new RMPREAD instruction and segmented RMP mode as part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)...
2024-12-16 09:03
Blaize BLZP1600 SoC Support Coming To Linux 6.14 For AI Edge Processing
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is set to introduce support for the Blaize BLZP1600 SoC series that is powering various PCIe add-in-card and M.2 adapters for local AI edge processing...
2024-12-16 08:00
Get Valkey security patching and support with Ubuntu Pro
Canonical is pleased to announce security patching and support for Valkey through the Ubuntu Pro subscription. Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service for open-source software security, compliance and support that expands the maintenance period for all pa...
2024-12-16 07:45
Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
Sent out today was the latest drm-misc-next pull request of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Most exciting this week is the DRM boot logger being queued for landing to better present kernel...
2024-12-16 06:34
Better Linux Support For The Samsung Galaxy Book Laptops With New Driver Coming
For those interested in using Linux on the Samsung Galaxy Book line of laptops that ship with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new "samsung-galaxybook" driver is being worked on for supporting additional laptop functionality not currently found with...
2024-12-16 06:16
Last Minute AMD GFX12 Changes For RadeonSI Driver Enable ACO For RDNA4
Ahead of AMD's approaching RDNA4 next-generation graphics card launch, today a set of last minute improvements to the AMD GFX12 graphics IP were merged to Mesa 25.0 for the open-source Linux graphics driver support...
2024-12-16 05:58
Linux 6.13-rc3 Released With KVM Caching For "Wildly Expensive" Intel CPUID Handling
Linus Torvalds announced the release this evening of the Linux 6.13-rc3 kernel as Linux 6.13 works its way to stable release by late January...
2024-12-15 19:22
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Support
Xfce 4.20 desktop environment is out now with new features and improvements to the file manager and panel, experimental Wayland support, and more. Here’s what’s new! The post Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Support ...
2024-12-15 13:20
Java Throughput/Latency & Power Efficiency Tuning For AMD EPYC Turin
Last month I looked at the impact of AMD's BIOS tuning guide on AI / machine learning workloads for new 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" processors. In today's article I am looking at the performance and power efficiency impact of AMD EPYC 9005 series processors w...
2024-12-15 10:00
Linux Fixing A "Hilarious/Revolting Performance Regression" Around Intel KVM Virtualization
It's not too often that "fixes" to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) are noteworthy but today is an interesting exception with among the KVM fixes sent in today ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc3 tagging is for beginning to deal with a "hilarious/revolti...
2024-12-15 08:55