Linux

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel
Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...
2024-11-13 13:03
Fedora 42 to Port the Anaconda Installer to Wayland, Default to Anaconda WebUI
Fedora Linux 42 promises to port the Anaconda installer to Wayland and ship with the Anaconda WebUI by default for Fedora Workstation. The post Fedora 42 to Port the Anaconda Installer to Wayland, Default to Anaconda WebUI appeared first on 9to5Linux -...
2024-11-13 11:08
Board Election for Three Seats Opens
Members of the openSUSE’selection committee have provided notice to the project about the start of this year’s board election. This election there are three board seats up for grabs. The election begins its nomination process today and invites all ...
2024-11-13 11:00
RISC-V Motherboard For Framework 13 Pricing Starts At $368 In Early Access, $928 For Laptop
Framework Computer has been promoting a RISC-V motherboard option for their Framework Laptop 13 to complement their existing Intel Core and AMD Ryzen motherboard options. This RISC-V motherboard is being developed in cooperation with DeepComputing. Ear...
2024-11-13 10:30
GNU C Library Merges Support for getrandom vDSO
Back in Linux 6.11 support for getrandom() in the vDSO was upstreamed for much better performance in providing speedy yet secure random number generation (RNG) needs. Since Linux 6.11 getrandom in the vDSO has expanded to more CPU architectures and now...
2024-11-13 09:20
Valve Releases Steam Client Update to Further Improve Native Linux Gaming
Valve released a new stable Steam Client update to further improve native Linux gaming, the new Game Recording feature, Steam VR, and more. The post Valve Releases Steam Client Update to Further Improve Native Linux Gaming appeared first on 9to5Linux -...
2024-11-13 08:41
Intel's Zswap IAA Compress Batching Work Is Very Interesting For Linux Performance
The Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) found in various Xeon SKUs since Sapphire Rapids can be of big benefit to Linux servers/workstations with a Linux kernel patch series that has been in the works to provide Zswap IAA compress batching...
2024-11-13 08:21
20th edition of Jesień Linuksowa
Jesień Linuksowa (Linux Autumn) was held in Rybnik, Poland, October 25–27, 2024. This was the 20th occurrence of this conference organized by the Polish Linux Users Group. The presenters and audience are mostly local, with about 50 participants, but...
2024-11-13 08:00
NVIDIA MLX5 Introducing Data Direct Placement "DDP" In Linux 6.13 For Boosting Bandwidth
The NVIDIA MLX5 driver for NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-5 network adapters is preparing to introduce a new Data Direct Placement "DDP" feature with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...
2024-11-13 06:55
Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now On Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS
As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux. This "RWF_UNCACHED" work was originally started back in 2019 while a renewed effort around it is showing ~65% faster read/write perform...
2024-11-13 06:38
AMD Continues Backing AlmaLinux For Community Enterprise Linux OS
The AlmaLinux operating system project that was started from the fallout of the RHEL/CentOS development shift several years ago has once again courted AMD as a sponsorship of this community enterprise Linux operating system...
2024-11-13 06:15
xcompmgr 1.1.10 Released For Classic "Eye Candy" Compositor On X.Org
Xcompmgr 1.1.10 was released yesterday as the newest update to this basic X11 compositor providing "eye candy" effects for classic X.Org usage...
2024-11-13 05:28
VMware Workstation is Now Free for Commercial Use Too
Back in the spring, VMware did something unexpected: it made its desktop hypervisor software free to download and use on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No trial period, no in-app purchases, no feature limitations; the full version of VMware Workstation Pro...
2024-11-12 17:45
VMware Workstation Pro is Now Free for All – Including Commercial Use
Back in the spring, VMware did something unexpected: it made its desktop hypervisor software free to download and use on Windows, macOS, and Linux. No trial period, no in-app purchases, no feature limitations; the full version of VMware Workstation Pro...
2024-11-12 17:45
Bringing automation to open source 5G software at Ubuntu Summit 2024
In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Ha...
2024-11-12 16:45
Intel Idle Support For Granite Rapids D Going Into Linux 6.13
The "intel_idle" driver provides CPU idle time management for Intel processors on Linux for helping to put the processor into low-power states in conjunction with the MWAIT instruction. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the Granite Rapids D support ...
2024-11-12 16:17
Intel Releases New CPU Microcode For Two New Security Advisories
It's the second Tuesday of the month and this Patch Tuesday brings new CPU microcode for mitigating the latest Intel processor security vulnerabilities and updates to some previously disclosed issues...
2024-11-12 12:42
Early Benchmarks: AMD EPYC 9005 Performance & Power Efficiency To Lead Further With Linux 6.13
One of the many changes to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel cycle is the AMD P-State driver to be used by default with the new EPYC 9005 series processors. While AMD Ryzen CPUs for a while now have been defaulting to the modern AMD P...
2024-11-12 11:10
Project Welcomes rsync.net as Gold Sponsor
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-source solutions that serve users worldwide. Rsync.net’s secure cloud storage and ...
2024-11-12 11:00
Project Welcomes rsync.net as New Gold Sponsor
The openSUSE Project is excited to announce rsync.net as the latest Gold Sponsor! The company’s support will empower the openSUSE community to continue building open-source solutions that serve users worldwide. Rsync.net’s secure cloud storage and ...
2024-11-12 11:00