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Firefox 137 Beta Now Available With VA-API Accelerated H.265/HEVC On Linux

With Firefox 136 released, Mozilla has promoted Firefox 137 to its beta phase...

2025-03-04 11:51

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Intel Finds More Women Getting Involved In Open-Source, Maintainer Burnout Continues

Intel has been running an annual open-source developer survey and they recently wrapped up their survey for 2024 and today published the results to provide various insight into the health of open-source development...

2025-03-04 10:54

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ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App

There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they no...

2025-03-04 10:07

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance

Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I've been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a numbe...

2025-03-04 09:00

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Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement

Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially "save billions of dollars" in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out tod...

2025-03-04 08:35

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Linux's AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board

The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi "RDNA1" GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be fo...

2025-03-04 06:49

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Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine

In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API...

2025-03-04 06:32

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RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs

While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuo...

2025-03-04 06:30

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Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities

Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this ...

2025-03-04 06:18

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Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking

The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements...

2025-03-03 20:17

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Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements

Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...

2025-03-03 12:18

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GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering

Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into ...

2025-03-03 12:07

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Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries

Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...

2025-03-03 11:46

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How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years

SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carrie...

2025-03-03 11:12

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel

Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcas...

2025-03-03 10:00

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Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in ...

2025-03-03 08:45

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Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...

2025-03-03 08:32

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Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams

Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining...

2025-03-03 06:47

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Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt

Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its w...

2025-03-03 06:23

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Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing Patches Posted For Linux

The newest upstream-focused work around AMD SEV for Secure Encrypted Virtualization with EPYC server processors is a set of patches to better optimize cache flushing...

2025-03-03 06:06

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