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GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform

GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...

2024-09-13 20:36

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Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era

As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs...

2024-09-13 16:22

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature

AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors...

2024-09-13 14:46

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Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V

The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit...

2024-09-13 13:54

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Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio

The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release...

2024-09-13 13:11

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GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director

Following the GNOME Foundation Executive Director leaving after less than one year, the GNOME Foundation has formally begun their search for a new executive director...

2024-09-13 10:00

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Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s

While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of the...

2024-09-13 09:15

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AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling

David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes ...

2024-09-13 07:16

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Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source

Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project rema...

2024-09-13 06:50

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LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation

The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM...

2024-09-13 06:39

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Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging

The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser merged two notable features yesterday for Linux users...

2024-09-13 06:29

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Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...

2024-09-13 06:10

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Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs

As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...

2024-09-12 16:00

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AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware

AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...

2024-09-12 14:36

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Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI

With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...

2024-09-12 14:15

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KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities

Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...

2024-09-12 13:42

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AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming

AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the ...

2024-09-12 11:00

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EXT4 Extsize Hints Being Worked On As Step Toward Non-Torn/Atomic Writes

Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn...

2024-09-12 09:00

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Intel Demonstrates Up To 48% Improvement For AVX-512 Optimized PostgreSQL

With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings...

2024-09-12 07:43

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Linux Mint Takes To Forking Some APT Components

The Linux Mint project has at times forked various open-source projects to evolve them on their own such as the Cinnamon desktop starting out as forks of several GNOME 3 components. While their software forks and focus has mostly been at the desktop-le...

2024-09-12 07:30

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