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SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length

For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...

2025-02-08 12:33

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Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of...

2025-02-08 11:02

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GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme

Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from ...

2025-02-08 07:00

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FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance

FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...

2025-02-08 06:40

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Receives Final Polishing Prior To Release Next Week

The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...

2025-02-08 06:16

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FreeBSD 13.5 Beta Begins Preparing For The Last Of The FreeBSD 13 Series

The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...

2025-02-08 06:06

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Wine 10.1 Released With Many Changes: Fixes For Battle.net, Continued Bluetooth Driver

Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that w...

2025-02-07 18:57

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GNOME's LocalSearch Metadata Extractor Ditches GStreamer For FFmpeg

While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly...

2025-02-07 16:43

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IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking

It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...

2025-02-07 13:57

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Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer

Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in th...

2025-02-07 11:28

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GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5

With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looki...

2025-02-07 10:13

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Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel developm...

2025-02-07 08:32

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Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features

Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...

2025-02-07 06:42

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Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs

With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bca...

2025-02-07 06:33

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NVIDIA Publishes RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTXNTC" Beta

NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit...

2025-02-07 06:22

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AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year to this official AMD open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

2025-02-07 05:54

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Ubuntu's crypto-config Continues Being Developed For Gradual Roll-Out

A year ago I raised attention about crypto-config as a new Ubuntu project for system-wide cryptography configuration. That crypto config tool continues being developed by Canonical engineers for a gradual roll-out into the Ubuntu Linux landscape...

2025-02-06 20:47

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VirtIO Media Driver Upstreaming Pursued For Relaying V4L2 Media Devices To Guests

Android and Chrome OS already are carrying the VirtIO Media driver as a means of enabling virtualization of host media devices into a guest while now patch review is underway in trying to get VirtIO Media upstreamed in the mainline Linux kernel...

2025-02-06 14:42

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SMT Remains Very Advantageous For 5th Gen AMD EPYC Performance

After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here ...

2025-02-06 10:50

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AMD Talks Up IREE/MLIR Programming For Ryzen AI NPUs

While the AMDXDNA driver was merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs atop a mainline kernel build, there's still the user-space software needed for making use of the neural processing units found in Ryzen AI SoCs. AMD talked mor...

2025-02-06 10:00

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