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AlmaLinux OS 9.5 Is Here as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5
AlmaLinux OS 9.5 distribution is now available for download based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5. Here’s what’s new! The post AlmaLinux OS 9.5 Is Here as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not repro...
2024-11-18 17:27
AMD Begins Adding "GFX950" GPU Support To LLVM For Next CDNA Accelerator
As of today the first handful of commits have landed in LLVM Git ahead of next year's LLVM 20.0 for beginning to enable the AMDGPU compiler back-end for "GFX950", the next iteration of the CDNA family for Instinct accelerators...
2024-11-18 17:15
Linux 6.13 Quadrupling Workqueue Concurrency Limit
The Linux kernel Workqueue (WQ) is used for handling asynchronous process execution. For the past many years there has been an upper limit on the number of workqueue execution contexts per CPU at 512, but with Linux 6.13 that is being quadrupled to a l...
2024-11-18 16:32
Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits
Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better per...
2024-11-18 15:34
Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media
All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions...
2024-11-18 13:15
New AMD ERAPS Feature Yields Additional Performance Gains On Zen 5
At the beginning of November I wrote about AMD Linux engineers posting Linux patches enabling a new "ERAPS" feature for Zen 5. ERAPS wasn't talked about by AMD at the Zen 5 launches of the Ryzen 9000 / Ryzen AI 300 series or with the more recent EPYC 9...
2024-11-18 10:54
Shotcut 24.11 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Various Bug Fixes
Shotcut 24.11 open-source video editor is now available for download with various bug fixes to improve existing functionality. Here's what's new! The post Shotcut 24.11 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Various Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to5Linu...
2024-11-18 10:42
Ignite Creativity in Hack Week
Open-source software developers, tech enthusiasts and innovators worldwide are set for Hack Week 24 that starts today and runs through Nov. 22. The event is a cornerstone of fostering creativity and collaboration and invites participants to explore per...
2024-11-18 10:00
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 17th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for November 17th, 2024, brings news about Linux kernel 6.12, Archinstall 3.0, DXVK 2.5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, PeaZip 10.1, digiKam 8.5, new Steam Client update, Fedora Linux 42 features, as well as all the latest d...
2024-11-18 08:57
GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing
GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs...
2024-11-18 08:54
Raspberry Pi OS Now Defaults To 512MB Swap, Updates Labwc Compositor
With last month's Raspberry Pi OS update they now default to Wayland on all Raspberry Pi models alongside various other operating system improvements. Out today is the latest iteration of the Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS with software updates and other...
2024-11-18 07:02
LLVM Clang 20 Merges Intel Diamond Rapids Support With "-march=diamondrapids"
Following AMX-FP8 support, AMX-AVX512, and other new Intel CPU ISA features being added to the LLVM Clang 20 compiler codebase, the Intel Diamond Rapids target is now upstreamed for allowing "-march=diamondrapids" targeting for these next-generation Xe...
2024-11-18 07:00
DXVK 2.5.1 Released To Fix A Major Regression & Other Bugs
DXVK 2.5 released one week ago with better video memory management handling, various Direct3D additions, and more. DXVK 2.5.1 is out today to fix a "major regression" as well as a few other bugs...
2024-11-18 06:39
Btrfs With Linux 6.13 Delivers Performance Improvements & Other Features
Along with the early Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.13, SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted all of the Btrfs file-system feature updates in an early pull request for this next kernel version. Btrfs is seeing new performance optimizations and other ...
2024-11-18 06:18
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 3 Released - FreeBSD Now Publishing OCI Container Images
The third weekly beta release of FreeBSD 14.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in early December. Besides a few fixes notable to FreeBSD 14.2-BETA3 is that they are now putting out OCI container images among their releas...
2024-11-18 06:03
Linux 6.13 For ARM64 Brings GCS Support & Protected VMs With Arm CCA
The ARM64 (AArch64) architecture changes have been submitted for the now-open Linux 6.13 merge window...
2024-11-18 05:48
Linux Kernel 6.12 Has Landed – And It’s a Big One
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 6.12, and an eclectic assortment of changes contained within make it one of the most biggest kernel releases for a while. In terms of features, I mean. I didn’t sit bean-counting the code byte-...
2024-11-17 22:50
Linux Kernel 6.12 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 6.12 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support, networking and filesystems improvements, and much more. Here's what's new! The post Linux Kernel 6.12 Officially Released, This Is What’s New appeared first...
2024-11-17 22:27
Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More
As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable. Linux 6.12 brings many new features, new hardware support, and is rounded out by the fact of expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...
2024-11-17 17:22
Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface
Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with a revamped interface based on Curses for more complex layouts. The post Archinstall 3.0 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Is Here with a Revamped Interface appeared first on 9to5Linux ...
2024-11-17 11:20