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Intel Tofino P4 Software Open-Sourced Years Later

An interesting open-source announcement out of Intel this week is that they have open-sourced their P4 software for their line of Tofino programmable Ethernet switches...

2025-01-18 07:24

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GNOME Snapshot Can Now Read QR Codes, Flatpak 1.16 Brings More Features

It was a busy week in the GNOME space with many packages checking in their "48.alpha" releases for the GNOME 48 Alpha milestone. Plus there has been some additional exciting GNOME developments for the week...

2025-01-18 06:53

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Year Of The BSD Desktop? There's Going To Be A BSD Desktop Conference At Least

Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 a...

2025-01-18 06:42

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KDE Developers Fixing "Record Amounts Of Bugs" Following Plasma 6.3 Beta

Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta, there's been a lot of bug fixing happening ahead of the stable release due out next month for this open-source desktop...

2025-01-18 06:25

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Wine 10.0-rc6 Released With Another 18 Bugs Fixed

Wine 10.0 is working its way to a stable release within the next week or two while for today there is the sixth weekly release candidate...

2025-01-17 20:17

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GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use

GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere...

2025-01-17 12:00

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Many Exciting Features & New Hardware Support Expected For Linux 6.14

Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to addi...

2025-01-17 11:00

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Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions

Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute...

2025-01-17 10:23

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Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 oct...

2025-01-17 10:02

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LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 For Last Minute Testing This Updated Free Software Office Suite

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...

2025-01-17 08:35

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Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load

Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot...

2025-01-17 07:02

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AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates

Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...

2025-01-17 06:38

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In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...

2025-01-17 06:14

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RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0

At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just ov...

2025-01-17 05:59

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PCI Express 7.0 Remains On Track For 2025, v0.7 Spec Published

Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...

2025-01-16 20:25

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The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features

With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...

2025-01-16 10:58

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Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux

Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo ex...

2025-01-16 09:00

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AMDGPU VirtIO Native Context Merged: Native AMD Driver Support Within Guest VMs

An exciting change was just merged into Mesa 25.0 that has been about two years in the making... AMDGPU native context support for VirtIO to allow for using native OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers within guest virtual machines for better performance...

2025-01-16 08:43

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Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators

Back in November it was decided that the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin would be promoted to the same tier as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation. Fedora KDE as an "Edition" status for Fedora 42 will now be on the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition. More...

2025-01-16 07:03

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CXL Address Translation Support For AMD Zen 5 Sees Linux Patches

A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working fo...

2025-01-16 06:48

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