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Linux Patches Add Support For New "Phone Link" Hotkey On Latest ThinkPads
Patches posted on Thursday for the Linux kernel add support for the newest hotkey being found on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops... The "Phone Link" hotkey for launching the Microsoft Phone Link software for linking your Android/iOS smartphone to your laptop. ...
2024-11-15 06:23
SDL3 Improves Steam Controller Support, Now Enabled By Default
A number of Steam Controller improvements have been merged for SDL, this widely-used hardware/software abstraction layer that is common to cross platform games. Among the latest Steam Controller improvements in SDL are enabling the support by default...
2024-11-15 06:08
Khronos SYCL Being Updated To Increase Appeal For HPC & Scientific Computing
In addition to the release today of OpenMP 6.0 ahead of the SC24 supercomputing conference in Atlanta, over at The Khronos Group they have provided an update on upcoming SYCL improvements to benefit high performance computing (HPC) and scientific compu...
2024-11-14 19:00
OpenMP 6.0 Released With An Emphasis On Easier Parallel Programming
The OpenMP Architecture Review Board announced from SC24 that OpenMP 6.0 is now available as a major upgrade to the OpenMP specification for multi-process programming within C / C++ / Fortran. A big emphasis on OpenMP 6.0 is making it easier for develo...
2024-11-14 13:02
LibreOffice 24.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 88 Bug Fixes
The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.8.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series fixing … The post LibreOffice 24.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download ...
2024-11-14 12:40
Upstream Linux Developers Take Aim At TUXEDO's Out-Of-Tree GPLv3 Drivers
A new patch series posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would block kernel modules/drivers from TUXEDO Computers from accessing GPL-only symbols in the kernel...
2024-11-14 12:10
Supermicro H13SSL-N For AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" 1P Servers
While it's difficult still finding Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" motherboards/servers widely available at Internet retailers/distributors, when it comes to the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched just last month, there is better availability...
2024-11-14 10:52
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Enters Beta With Many New Features & Updates
The first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was released on Wednesday with a wide variety of new/updated packages, new features, and other changes over RHEL 9...
2024-11-14 10:26
AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver To Be Merged For Linux 6.13
Last month AMD Linux engineers posted patches for a 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for Linux that allows the user to communicate their cache vs. frequency preference depending upon workload and for the 3D V-Cache processors where some CCDs have the larger...
2024-11-14 08:39
Linux 6.13 To Tune Intel Granite Rapids For Better Performance Out-Of-The-Box
A patch queued yesterday ino the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 merge window will tune Intel Xeon Granite Rapids processors for better performance out-of-the-box...
2024-11-14 07:02
Linux To Allow Disabling TPM PCR Integrity Protection Due To Performance Bottleneck
Linux 6.10 introduced TPM bus encryption and integrity protection for enhancing the Trusted Platform Module support to protect against interposers from compromising them with TPM sniffing attacks. There is now a new option being added to opt-out of thi...
2024-11-14 06:35
Intel Touch Host Controller "THC" Driver Support Being Worked On For Linux
The newest Linux driver being developed by Intel is for the Touch Host Controller (THC) as a new high performance input tech for enhancing touch screen, touch pad, and stylus input handling...
2024-11-14 06:20
Bcachefs Squeezes More Fixes Into Linux 6.12
Ahead of the expected final Linux 6.12 stable kernel release this weekend, a last round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted today for this next kernel version...
2024-11-14 06:07
Rhythmbox’s New Release Fixes Its Broken DAAP Server + More
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’ so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to ...
2024-11-14 00:48
Rhythmbox’s New Release Fixes Its Broken DAAP Server
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’ so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to ...
2024-11-14 00:48
Rhythmbox Update Brings DAAP Server Fix, Podcast Tweaks
A new version of the GTK-based music player Rhythmbox has been released, the first major update in over a year. Rhythmbox 3.4.8 is billed as a ‘minor improvement release’, so there are no shiny new features or (some would say overdue) UI changes to...
2024-11-14 00:48
Ubuntu 25.04 Plans Switch to New PDF App
Ubuntu 25.04 plans to include a new default PDF viewer app. Evince (aka Document Viewer) is the PDF app Ubuntu preinstalls at present. In fact, I can’t recall using a version of Ubuntu that didn’t have it in! Next April’s release of Ubuntu 25.04 ...
2024-11-13 20:42
Ubuntu 25.04 Set to Ship With New PDF Viewer
It could be all change for the PDF viewer in the next version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s long-time PDF viewer Evince (aka Document Viewer) is comes preinstalled in Ubuntu at present—I can’t recall using a version of Ubuntu that didn’t use it. But next...
2024-11-13 20:42
AMD Developing Next-Gen Fortran Compiler Based On Flang, Optimized For AMD GPUs
AMD today went public with details on the "AMD Next-Gen Fortran Compiler" as a new Fortran compiler they are working on based on LLVM's Flang...
2024-11-13 19:15
Join Canonical in Paris at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Paris, taking place on 19 November. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advan...
2024-11-13 18:27