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

With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this next iteration of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is finally enabling hardware video acceleration by default for AMD GPUs on Linux...

2025-02-04 14:04

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FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling

Landing this week in the FFmpeg open-source library that is widely-used by multimedia applications was NVIDIA video acceleration improvements for Blackwell GPUs. Over on the AMD side, there are also some interesting changes to have been merged this wee...

2025-02-04 12:55

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

While the Linux kernel itself may not be often viewed as a bottleneck to typical high performance computing (HPC) workloads, optimizing the Linux kernel with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) can prove worthwhile for those seeking maximum performance ...

2025-02-04 12:37

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Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status report to highlight the progress their developers made over the course of January...

2025-02-04 11:49

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FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia library are a number of NVIDIA video encoding "NVENC" improvements for benefiting the new GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics processors...

2025-02-04 10:27

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

The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for years has been a great feature for Ubuntu users to be able to easily fetch and run the newest upstream kernel whether it's the latest stable kernel version, one of the weekly release candidates, or even the very leadi...

2025-02-04 08:42

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Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX Support

Initially merged back for the Linux 6.13 kernel was EXECMEM_ROX support for module text on x86_64 systems. With this caching of large ROX pages it can help with lowering TLB instruction pressure and enhancing performance. But this EXECMEM_ROX support t...

2025-02-04 06:43

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

For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in...

2025-02-04 06:31

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

Igalia engineers José María Casanova Crespo and Maíra Canal presented at FOSDEM this past weekend in Brussels around the efforts by this open-source consulting firm to further enhance the 3D performance out of the Raspberry Pi single board computers...

2025-02-04 06:12

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Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding

Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new devel...

2025-02-03 20:40

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

In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver c...

2025-02-03 17:02

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

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO work...

2025-02-03 16:06

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Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements

Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...

2025-02-03 14:43

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

Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...

2025-02-03 13:20

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Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting

Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all tho...

2025-02-03 13:00

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

Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...

2025-02-03 11:20

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Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History

Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...

2025-02-03 10:32

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Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025

Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...

2025-02-03 10:00

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FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops

FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...

2025-02-03 08:45

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Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes

Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...

2025-02-03 08:33

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