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SuperTuxKart 1.5 Beta Brings Benchmark Test, UI Tweaks + More
It’s hallowe’en, and there’s a frightfully good treat waiting for fans of the free, open-source racing game SuperTuxKart – a new beta! The first beta of SuperTuxKart 1.5 offers an array of improvements, touching everything from the underlying g...
2024-10-31 18:47
LibreOffice 24.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 24.8
LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available for download as the last update in the LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series with 57 bug fixes. Users are now urged to update to LibreOffice 24.8. The post LibreOffice 24.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, U...
2024-10-31 17:40
AMD EPYC 9655 Benchmarks Show The Terrific Generational Gains With 5th Gen EPYC
With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin "classic" ...
2024-10-31 12:26
Linux Lite 7.2 Released with Lite Theme Manager, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Linux Lite 7.2 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, powered by Linux kernel 6.8, and featuring the Xfce 4.18 desktop environment. Here's what's new! The post Linux Lite 7.2 Released with Lite Theme Manager, Based on Ubu...
2024-10-31 10:48
AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators
AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November...
2024-10-31 09:47
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Idea Of "-O3" Optimized Packages
Following the announcement yesterday that Ubuntu 25.04 will default to the -O3 optimization level with GCC for its Debian package builds, Fedora stakeholders have begun debating the merits of switching to the -O3 optimization level or not instead of th...
2024-10-31 09:00
Getting hands-on with AI in automotive
From cloud to edge, hardware-agnostic AI/ML In January Canonical will reconfirm its presence at CES 2025; here we will be showing a cutting-edge AI/ML demo that showcases how AI models can be trained, deployed, and updated seamlessly across various har...
2024-10-31 08:12
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 41 on Silverblue
Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If y...
2024-10-31 08:00
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch
Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case...
2024-10-31 07:10
AMX-FP8 Support Upstreamed Into LLVM For Intel Diamond Rapids
Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions...
2024-10-31 06:43
SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements
SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE...
2024-10-31 06:33
SVT-AV1 2.3 Brings More Performance Improvements: AVX-512 & LTO By Default, More Tuning
SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements...
2024-10-31 06:20
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 Adds A Few More Vulkan Extensions
One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions...
2024-10-31 06:03
Google Chrome Update Offers More Control Over Memory Usage
The latest stable update to Google Chrome introduces an enhanced Memory Saver feature which could help you reduce the browser’s memory footprint. It’s fair to say that Google Chrome is infamous for being a memory hog. Is it deserved? Perhaps once u...
2024-10-30 23:54
Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated for Release on April 17th, 2025
Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” operating system has been slated for release next year on April 17th, 2025, and it’s expected to come with the GNOME 48 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.14. The post Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated fo...
2024-10-30 21:06
Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Big Build Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Build Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Ubuntu 25.04 Officially Opens for Development
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Packaging Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
AMD "Cleaner Shader" Coming For GFX11.0.3 GPUs To Help Ensure User/App Isolation
A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workl...
2024-10-30 20:27