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Python 3.14 Alpha 5 Released With New Tail-Call Interpreter
Python 3.14 Alpha 5 is out today as the latest of many development releases in stepping toward the Python 3.14 stable release in October...
2025-02-11 16:53
Healthy Competition With GCC 15 vs. LLVM Clang 20 Performance On AMD Zen 5
In the recent discussion over the GNU Gold linker being deprecated, there was the usual LLVM vs. GCC compiler/toolchain debate. Fortunately, with recently working on some initial benchmarks of the GCC 15 compiler I was following that up with some fresh...
2025-02-11 13:03
Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues
Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake, Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different...
2025-02-11 12:15
GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App
While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...
2025-02-11 10:18
Ubuntu 25.04's GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default
Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...
2025-02-11 09:54
Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...
2025-02-11 08:46
FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding
FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...
2025-02-11 08:36
KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements
Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...
2025-02-11 06:44
AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option
AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP pa...
2025-02-11 06:24
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...
2025-02-11 06:13
Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...
2025-02-10 20:43
Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance
Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with For...
2025-02-10 15:11
Intel's Newest Open-Source Project Is "Polite Guard"
Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...
2025-02-10 12:40
Apple Touch Bar Backlight & Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15
For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...
2025-02-10 12:18
GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing
GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...
2025-02-10 10:51
Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code
Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can ev...
2025-02-10 09:02
Union Hopes To Address KDE's Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps
KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less c...
2025-02-10 08:51
Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration
You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest f...
2025-02-10 08:28
New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel's Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz
A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...
2025-02-10 06:43
RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support
Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...
2025-02-10 06:31