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Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulkan 1.3 Conformance for V3DV
Mesa 24.3 open-source graphics stack is now available with Vulkan 1.3 conformance for V3DV, updates for ANV, RADV, and NVK drivers, and improvements for several video games. Here’s what’s new! The post Mesa 24.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Adds Vulk...
2024-11-21 18:06
Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem...
2024-11-21 16:27
ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...
2024-11-21 13:15
EdgeIQ and Ubuntu Core; bringing security and scalability to device management 
Today, EdgeIQ and Canonical announced the release of the EdgeIQ Coda snap and official support of Ubuntu Core on the EdgeIQ Symphony platform. EdgeIQ Symphony helps you simplify and scale workflows for device fleet operations, data consumption and deli...
2024-11-21 12:46
Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary im...
2024-11-21 12:20
Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide ...
2024-11-21 10:17
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS end of life: standard support is coming to an end. Here’s how to prepare. 
In 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) will reach the end of its standard five-year support window. It’s time to start thinking about your options for upgrading. What is an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release?  Ubuntu long-term support releases ...
2024-11-21 10:08
Zrythm 1.0 Released For Powerful Open-Source Digital Audio Workstation
Zrythm 1.0 released today as a big milestone for this open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software that caters from professional users down to beginners...
2024-11-21 10:00
Khronos Announces Slang Initiative From Open-Source NVIDIA Code
On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code...
2024-11-21 09:42
VKD3D 1.14 Released With Initial Metal Shading Language Output
Ahead of the upcoming freeze for Wine 10.0, VKD3D 1.14 is now available for this prominent Wine component that allows Direct3D 12 to be implemented over the Vulkan API for enhancing Windows games/apps running on Linux and other platforms...
2024-11-21 08:35
Linux 6.13 EDAC Preps For Panther Lake H & Missing Support For Old Kabylake S CPUs
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates landed this week for the ongoing Linux 6.13 kernel merge window...
2024-11-21 06:34
PHP 8.4 Released With Property Hooks, Lazy Objects & Other New Features
PHP 8.4 is out today as the newest annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language...
2024-11-21 06:24
Vulkan 1.3.302 Published With AV1 Encode & NVIDIA Display Stereo Extensions
Vulkan 1.3.302 was published this morning with a handful of new extensions, including AV1 encode support for Vulkan Video...
2024-11-21 05:50
Bcachefs Changes Rejected Reportedly Due To CoC, Kernel Future "Uncertain"
While the Bcachefs feature changes for Linux 6.13 were already submitted even before the Linux 6.12 stable kernel was released, merging these changes are supposedly on hold due to the kernel's Code of Conduct (CoC) board...
2024-11-20 22:34
Linux 6.13 Adds Support For Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" For 2TB To 128TB Storage
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards...
2024-11-20 20:22
Ubuntu? That’s a Bullfinch, Not an Oriole
Here’s something a little lighthearted—unless you’re pedantic about ornithology, in which case you won’t be so chirpy: it seems a Bullfinch found its way into Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’. Did someone leave a window open?! If you upgraded...
2024-11-20 18:30
Linux 6.13 "MM" Patches Bring Some Enticing Performance Optimizations
Andrew Morton on Monday submitted all the memory management "MM" related patches for the Linux 6.13 merge window. As usual there's a lot of interesting performance optimizations and other low-level refinements...
2024-11-20 14:42
Join Canonical in London at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is excited to be partnering with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – London, taking place on 26th November. This prestigious event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest adv...
2024-11-20 13:48
Many Networking Changes In Linux 6.13 - One Line Of Code Helping WireGuard Performance
The abundance of networking subsystem updates have been mailed in for the Linux 6.13 kernel from wired and wireless driver enhancements to core networking code improvements...
2024-11-20 13:22
8 vs. 12 Channel DDR5-6000 Memory Performance With AMD 5th Gen EPYC
As I wrote about last week within the Supermicro H13SSL-N EPYC Turin motherboard review, one of the factors leading me to purchasing that EPYC 9005 series motherboard was that this board offered support for full 12 channel DDR5-6000 memory performance ...
2024-11-20 11:40