Linux

LoongArch Wires Up Real-Time Kernel Support & Lazy Preemption
Merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel was the long-awaited real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support and allowing it to be enabled across x86/x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V CPU architectures. With the Linux 6.13 kernel, LoongArch is joining the RT party...
2024-11-27 05:24
elementary OS 8 Released, This is What’s New
Big day for fans of indie distros as elementary OS 8.0 is now available to download. A major update, elementary OS 8 rides atop the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, is powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel (with access to newer kernels via Ubuntu’s HWE), and sees a ...
2024-11-26 18:16
elementary OS 8 Released, Here’s What’s New
Indie distro fans rejoice: elementary OS 8.0 is now available to download. Built on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base and powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, elementary OS 8 brings a swathe of improvement to both the Pantheon desktop environment, its core apps, a...
2024-11-26 18:16
elementary OS 8 Released with New Dock, Quick Settings + More
Indie distro fans rejoice: elementary OS 8.0 is now available to download. Built on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base and powered by the Linux 6.8 kernel, elementary OS 8 brings a swathe of improvement to both the Pantheon desktop environment, its core apps, a...
2024-11-26 18:16
elementary OS 8 “Circe” Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
elementary OS 8 (Circe) distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.8. Here's what's new! The post elementary OS 8 “Circe” Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS appeared first on 9to...
2024-11-26 18:00
FSF "Excited" For 802.11n WiFi USB Adapter Costing €50 In 2024 Holiday Shopping Guide
In prior years the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published an Ethical Tech Giving Guide for holiday shopping where they recommend products like old AMD Opteron motherboards and USB to parallel printer cables that "respect your freedoms" and meet t...
2024-11-26 17:00
AMD GFX9.4.4 CDNA Firmware Published, More GFX950 Changes Point To Being MI350
There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land...
2024-11-26 16:26
Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux
Firefox 134 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux and other changes. Here’s what to expect. The post Firefox 134 Enters Beta, Promises Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on L...
2024-11-26 14:32
F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for oth...
2024-11-26 14:17
Granular Power Savings Patches Posted For Common "uvcvideo" Linux Webcam Driver
Google engineer Ricardo Ribalda has proposed a set of patches for the common "uvcvideo" kernel driver that supports UVC-compliant web cameras and the like to provide granular power saving support...
2024-11-26 12:24
KDE Plasma 6.2.4 Re-Enables HDR Mode for Users on NVIDIA 565 and Linux 6.11
KDE Plasma 6.2.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Plasma 6.2.4 Re-Enables HDR Mode for Users on NVIDIA 56...
2024-11-26 11:59
Firefox 133 Released with Faster Access to Tabs on Other Devices
Mozilla Firefox 133 was released today, furnished with some new features and UI refinements long-time users are sure to appreciate. In the 4 weeks since Firefox 132 brought us certificate compression, tweaked the way the ‘copy link without site trac...
2024-11-26 11:00
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Graphics Compute / OpenCL Performance Looking Great
Now that Linux 6.12 has a fix for the Lunar Lake performance with the ASUS Zenbook I have been using for my Core Ultra 200V series Linux testing as well as there recently being an updated Intel Compute Runtime with Lunar Lake fixes, I have been working...
2024-11-26 10:39
Is a real-time OS right for your business?
With automation spanning virtually every sector of society, real-time capable operating systems (OS) are becoming critical across industries, from automotive and telecommunications, to industrial manufacturing. A real-time operating system (RTOS)  ens...
2024-11-26 10:21
Transition from Windows to Linux: A Step-by-Step Guide
With Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 in October 2025, millions of users are looking for alternatives that avoid costly hardware upgrades, additional upgrade costs to Windows 11 depending on the country a person is in or to mitigate security ris...
2024-11-26 10:00
Ubuntu 25.04 Begins Preparations For GIMP 3.0
With GIMP 3.0-RC1 out for testing since earlier this month, the hope is that GIMP 3.0 stable will in fact ship in time for the release of Ubuntu 25.04 next April. The current GIMP 3.0 release candidate is working its way to Debian Unstable and in turn ...
2024-11-26 09:00
AMD I3C Controller ACPI Support Added To DesignWare Driver In Linux 6.13
The I3C subsystem updates were submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel on Monday and include support for another I3C HCI controller used on AMD systems...
2024-11-26 08:26
3K Lines Of New Rust Infrastructure Code Head Into Linux 6.13
Overnight the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted the big set of Rust infrastructure/toolchain updates for the Linux 6.13 holiday kernel...
2024-11-26 06:37
Linus Torvalds Improves Futex Code To Improve User-Space Accesses
In between managing all of the pull requests being submitted during this two week long merge window for the Linux 6.13 kernel, Linus Torvalds has merged some of his own code this cycle...
2024-11-26 06:16