Linux

Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha is now available. Get ready for Leap Micro 5.5 End of Life.
Leap Micro 6.1 Alpha images can be found at get.opensuse.org. Unless some serious issues are found, users can expect a quick transition to GA within a few weeks. About Leap Micro Leap Micro 6.1 is a rebranded SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 6.1 which is an...
2024-11-20 10:00
Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10
The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-functional hardware to operating systems that can extend the life of their laptops, desktops or other d...
2024-11-20 09:00
OpenVINO 2024.5 Released With More Intel Optimizations, Better LLM/GenAI Coverage
Intel's open-source software developers released today OpenVINO 2024.5 as the newest major feature release for this cross-platform AI toolkit...
2024-11-20 08:34
Faster CRC32C & AEGIS-128 Crypto Performance On Linux 6.13 With Intel/AMD CPUs
The crypto subsystem updates were merged yesterday for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel. Among other crypto improvements are new optimizations for some algorithms when running on Intel and AMD x86_64 processors...
2024-11-20 06:34
Multigrain Timestamps Try Again For Linux 6.13 - Now With Less Performance Impact
Merged last year for Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps to address the current coarse-grained timestamps when updating creation time and modification time that a lot of I/O activity can happen in the once-per-jiffy timestamp. Just a few weeks in ...
2024-11-20 06:10
Corsair Void Headset & Kysona M600 Lightweight Gaming Mouse Support In Linux 6.13
The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle...
2024-11-20 06:00
Blender 4.3 Brings Hardware-Accelerated Ray-Tracing to Linux
Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to! Blender 4.3 is the latest stable release of the phenomenally powerful open-source 3D modelling software. Its creators sa...
2024-11-19 22:31
Blender 4.3 Brings Vulkan Backend, AMD Ray-Tracing to Linux
Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to! Blender 4.3 is the latest stable release of the phenomenally powerful open-source 3D modelling software. Its creators sa...
2024-11-19 22:31
Lazy Preemption Merged Along With Other Scheduler Improvements For Linux 6.13
All of the scheduler feature changes were merged today for the Linux 6.13 kernel, including the introduction of the lazy preemption model...
2024-11-19 20:43
Canonical provides the ideal platform for Microsoft Azure IoT Operations
London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data p...
2024-11-19 18:05
Getting started with Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu
Introduction With the recent announcement of the release of Azure IoT Operations, Microsoft has provided its customers with a unified data plane offering significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing, and cloud-ingress....
2024-11-19 18:04
FLTK 1.4 Released With Wayland & HiDPI Display Support
FLTK 1.4 is out as the newest version of the Fast Light Toolkit that has been around since the late 90's...
2024-11-19 16:53
NVIDIA 550.135 Graphics Driver Released with Better Linux Kernel 6.11 Support
NVIDIA 550.135 graphics driver is now available for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with a few enhancements for Linux users. Here's what's changed! The post NVIDIA 550.135 Graphics Driver Released with Better Linux Kernel 6.11 Support appeared firs...
2024-11-19 16:46
Blender 4.3 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Introduces Experimental Vulkan Backend
Blender 4.3 open-source 3D graphics creation software is now available for download with new features and numerous improvements. Here's what's new! The post Blender 4.3 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Introduces Experimental Vulkan Backend appeared first o...
2024-11-19 16:23
FreeCAD 1.0 Open-Source 3D Parametric Modeler Released, Here’s What’s New
FreeCAD 1.0 open-source 3D parametric modeler is now available for download with numerous new features and UI improvements. Here's what's new! The post FreeCAD 1.0 Open-Source 3D Parametric Modeler Released, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5...
2024-11-19 15:43
New Linux Patch Lets You Force CPU Bugs/Mitigations Even When Not Vulnerable
While most users frown upon the increasing number of CPU security mitigations in part due to the additional overhead commonly introduced, a new Linux kernel patch by a Google engineer would allow users/developers to opt-in to forcing CPU bugs and their...
2024-11-19 14:29
Blender 4.3 Released With AMD HIP-RT Ray-Tracing On Linux, Experimental Vulkan Backend
Blender 4.3 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
2024-11-19 12:00
FreeCAD 1.0 Released With UI/UX Improvements, New Materials System
FreeCAD 1.0 was just released as a major update to this leading open-source, cross-platform 3D parametric modeler software...
2024-11-19 11:24
Linux 6.13 PM Switches EPYC Turin To AMD P-State, More Aggressive Default For Intel GNR
The power management subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly opened Linux 6.13 merge window. As covered within individual articles over the past few weeks, the Linux 6.13 power management updates include some notable changes for both AMD an...
2024-11-19 10:07