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A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2
Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...
2024-10-08 06:43
LunarG Exploring Vulkan To Metal Translation With Mesa
While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...
2024-10-08 06:19
Qt 6.8 LTS Released With XR Module, Lower RAM Usage & Quicker Start Times
Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...
2024-10-08 06:05
GNOME Foundation Announces Cost Cutting Measures Due To Budget Woes
While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs,...
2024-10-07 20:44
OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs
OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...
2024-10-07 19:19
FEX 2410 Released With New JIT Optimizations
FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well a...
2024-10-07 16:09
Python 3.13 Debuts With New Interactive Interpreter & Experimental JIT
Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...
2024-10-07 13:57
Git 2.47 Released With Improvements & Encouraging More Positive Code Reviews
Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...
2024-10-07 12:45
Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server
Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...
2024-10-07 10:47
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...
2024-10-07 08:56
RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API
RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...
2024-10-07 08:47
The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10
For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...
2024-10-07 06:54
Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages
Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages...
2024-10-07 06:45
NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell
The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now ...
2024-10-07 06:39
Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems
Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Li...
2024-10-07 06:23
Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes
Building off last Sunday's inaugural release candidate of Linux 6.12, Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel a few minutes ago...
2024-10-06 18:52
More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12
In addition to Intel's Linux engineers being busy preparing hardware enablement support for next-gen Panther Lake client processors, they are also busy beginning to plumb Linux driver support for next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support as the suc...
2024-10-06 11:51
Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser has released Cage v0.2, a Wayland kiosk compositor that runs single, maximized applications...
2024-10-06 10:34
Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst continues enhancing Mesa's Rusticl driver that allows for a Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for use by Gallium3D drivers. The newest addition is a build-time option for controlling devices to be enabled by default...
2024-10-06 10:22
Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly
Wasmer 4.4 is out as the newest version to this prominent WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX / WASI / EmScripten to "run software anywhere" by effectively serving as lightweight containers and being able to scale from the edge to the cloud...
2024-10-06 09:04