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Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes

Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months...

2024-12-02 08:27

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Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for December

This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions. Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution. Please rea...

2024-12-02 08:00

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Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux

An exciting merge today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware...

2024-12-02 07:00

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Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework

Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with...

2024-12-02 06:34

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Imagination Lands Big PowerVR Compiler Update In Mesa 25.0

Merged over the US holiday weekend was a big update to the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver code for Mesa 25.0... 71 patches in fact making up this merge request...

2024-12-02 06:23

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XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell

Olivier Fourdan has merged support for using the xdg-system-bell protocol by XWayland for dealing with "system bell" functionality for Wayland compositors supporting this newer protocol for ringing the system bell or otherwise implementing a visual ind...

2024-12-02 06:15

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Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher

During October the Steam Linux marketshare crawled back up to 2.0% while overnight Valve published the Steam Survey results for November 2024...

2024-12-02 05:42

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HandBrake 1.9 Brings Lossless VP9 Encoding, Intel QSV VVC Decoding

A major new update to the powerful open source video converter HandBrake is available. In the 6 months (give or take) since the HandBrake 1.8 release arrived with its GTK4 (but not libadwaita) GUI in tow, the team has furnished this free media conversa...

2024-12-01 23:55

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.13 Release Candidate

Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect! The post Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.13 Release Candidate a...

2024-12-01 22:30

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HandBrake 1.9 Adds Support for Lossless VP9 Encoding, Intel QSV VVC Decoder

HandBrake 1.9 open-source video transcoder is now available for download with an Intel QSV VVC hardware video decoder, support for lossless VP9 encoding, an ALAC audio encoder, Vorbis pass-through support, and more. Here's what's new! The post HandBrak...

2024-12-01 20:43

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Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements

Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or c...

2024-12-01 20:18

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Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features

As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features...

2024-12-01 17:42

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Last Arch Linux ISO Release for 2024 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12 and Archinstall 3.0

Arch Linux 2024.12.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for December 2024 powered by Linux kernel 6.12 and featuring an improved installation experience. The post Last Arch Linux ISO Release for 2024 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12 a...

2024-12-01 14:54

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Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released For Testing

Following the Xfce 4.20 Pre1 release from one month ago, Xfce 4.20 Pre2 is ready for testing ahead of the planned desktop release in two weeks...

2024-12-01 11:34

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Turbostat Utility Lands New Features With Linux 6.13

The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting CPU frequency/idle statistics and other metrics is gaining some new capabilities as part of the Linux 6.13 cycle...

2024-12-01 06:58

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Apple M4, More AMD Zen 5 Benchmarks & Linux Kernel Drama From November

November was filled with interesting Linux benchmarks ranging from the Apple M4 testing kicking off to ongoing AMD Zen 5 benchmarks both for desktops and servers, a lot of exciting upstream kernel activity (and some drama...), and more. Even with the e...

2024-12-01 06:45

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NVIDIA's New Linux Patches For GPU Direct RDMA For Device-Private Pages

NVIDIA engineer Yonatan Maman posted a set of "request for comments" patches this Sunday to implement GPU Direct RDMA "P2P DMA" for device private pages. This is the latest in the effort by multiple vendors to allow more efficient data sharing between ...

2024-12-01 06:26

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Linux Fixes Issue Where Applying AMD Zen1/Zen2 Microcode Updates Could Slow Boot Times

Submitted today for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc1 release as part of the "x86/urgent" material is a fix for aging Zen 1 and Zen 2 processors where for the past year and a half they could potentially find very slow boot times...

2024-12-01 06:13

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NixOS 24.11 Released with GNOME 47 and KDE Plasma 6.2, PipeWire by Default

NixOS 24.11 independent Linux distribution is now available for download with GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post NixOS 24.11 Released with GNOME 47 and KDE Plasma 6.2, PipeWire by Default appeared first on 9to5Linu...

2024-11-30 22:06

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Clang AutoFDO + Propeller Optimization Support Merged For Linux 6.13

Last night when writing about the Clang AutoFDO and Propeller optimization patches sent in for Linux 6.13 I had wondered whether Linus Torvalds would go through with the pull request given some of his past commentary around aggressive compiler optimiza...

2024-11-30 21:00

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