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Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...
2025-01-14 06:36
JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains
For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...
2025-01-14 06:23
Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics
Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...
2025-01-14 06:09
OpenZFS 2.3 Released With RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct I/O & Other Great Improvements
OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...
2025-01-13 20:42
Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Wi...
2025-01-13 20:25
Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack
Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of...
2025-01-13 14:52
Oracle OLED Wants To Help Improve The Debugability Of The Linux Kernel
Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...
2025-01-13 13:25
GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too
The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March...
2025-01-13 11:50
DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan
Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...
2025-01-13 10:54
Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations
Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerne...
2025-01-13 10:16
A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus
A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected nex...
2025-01-13 08:40
Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver
Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...
2025-01-13 07:00
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14
Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramat...
2025-01-13 06:36
AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Linux Patches Reworked In 4th Spin
A nice Christmas surprise for 2024 was Meta engineer Rik van Riel posting Linux kernel patches for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found since Zen 3 processors for broadcast TLB invalidation...
2025-01-13 06:20
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support
Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays...
2025-01-13 06:05
GCC 15 Compiler Enters Its Final Stage Of Development
Richard Biener of SUSE announced today that the GCC 15 compiler has entered its stage four of development, which is the last stage focused only on regression fixes and documentation updates...
2025-01-13 05:51
Linux 6.13-rc7 Released: Linux 6.13 Stable Likely Next Week
Linux 6.13-rc7 is out as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.13 is a more exciting one than weeks prior with many of the developers and kernel testers returning from the end-of-year holiday break. Linux 6.13 remains on track for releasing a...
2025-01-12 18:24
OpenBLAS 0.3.29 Brings Auto-Detection For Intel Granite Rapids, Apple M4 & AMD Zen 5
OpenBLAS 0.3.29 is out today as a big update for this widely-used, open-source implementation for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms and LAPACK APIs...
2025-01-12 10:58
NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14
Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronizat...
2025-01-12 07:50
Enlightenment 0.27 Released For This 28 Year Old Window Manager / Compositor
Just over one year since the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 window manager, this weekend Carsten Haitzler released the Enlightenment 0.27 window manager and Wayland compositor. Enlightenment continues going now 28 years in development by Rasterman!..
2025-01-12 06:39