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GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility

GNOME Mutter 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, Gdctl Utility

Feb 5, 2025  0

The GNOME Mutter 48 compositor beta is now available for testing as part of this...

cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

cURL 8.12 Released With Its Rust Hyper Backend Removed

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Back in December was word that cURL would be dropping its "Hyper" Rust HTTP back...

New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Performance On AMD Zen 5 CPUs

New Linux Patches Yield Up To 3.3x Faster AES-CTR Perfo...

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Google engineer Eric Biggers is known for some of his great crypto performance o...

Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements For HEVC In Mesa 25.1

Microsoft Lands Direct3D 12 Video Encode Improvements F...

Feb 5, 2025  0

While having missed the mark last week for making it into this quarter's Mesa 25...

GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025

GRUB Continues Working Toward Its Next Release In 2025

Feb 4, 2025  0

As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Or...

An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1

An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded...

Feb 4, 2025  0

With Linux 6.14-rc1 released I have begun trying out the new development kernel ...

Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decoding For AMD GPUs On Linux By Default

Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decodin...

Feb 4, 2025  0

With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this ne...

Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports

Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports

Feb 4, 2025  0

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status ...

Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads

Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Bene...

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While the Linux kernel itself may not be often viewed as a bottleneck to typical...

FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling

FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling

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Landing this week in the FFmpeg open-source library that is widely-used by multi...

FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For N...

Feb 4, 2025  0

Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia libra...

Ubuntu Infrastructure Woe Continues Making It A Hassle To Run The Latest Upstream Kernel

Ubuntu Infrastructure Woe Continues Making It A Hassle ...

Feb 4, 2025  0

The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for years has been a great feature for Ubuntu use...

Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi

Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performanc...

Feb 4, 2025  0

Igalia engineers José María Casanova Crespo and Maíra Canal presented at FOSDEM ...

Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers

Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu B...

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For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop pa...

Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX Support

Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX...

Feb 4, 2025  0

Initially merged back for the Linux 6.13 kernel was EXECMEM_ROX support for modu...

Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding

Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding

Feb 4, 2025  0

Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus L...

FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working

FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 8...

Feb 4, 2025  0

In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support a...

GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution

GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linu...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known so...

Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements

Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Impro...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and ...

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix M...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing ...

Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Sou...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D grap...

Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History

Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwh...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab...

Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices

Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal W...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "f...

Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025

Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop ...

Feb 3, 2025  0

Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a b...

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