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SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR
Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting t...
2025-02-17 20:52
Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub
For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port...
2025-02-17 18:37
ISD 0.5 Released For Interactive systemd Management
A few weeks ago I wrote about ISD as a new open-source project for interactively managing systemd that aims to be more user intuitive especially for those that aren't veteran Linux server administrators. ISD has continued evolving and out today is ISD ...
2025-02-17 15:09
CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers To Work On Wine & Valve's Proton
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based t...
2025-02-17 14:59
A deep dive into our grid system and typography for the A4 format
We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and typography. The goal? A reliable, accessible modular system that communicates with clarity, purpose an...
2025-02-17 12:01
A look under the hood of our grid system and typography for the A4 format
We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project. Let’s look at some of the ideas behind our approach to layout and typography. The goal? A reliable, accessible modular system that communicates with clarity, purpose an...
2025-02-17 12:01
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 16th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 16th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.3, GNOME 48 Beta, EndeavourOS Mercury, GNOME 47.4, KDE Frameworks 6.11, openSUSE Tumbleweed adopting SELinux, Calibre 7.26, HandBrake 1.9.1, darktable 5.0.1, fwupd 2.0...
2025-02-17 10:45
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seein...
2025-02-17 09:18
How Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable
Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with ESM keeps your systems up to date with essential security patches. But when something breaks or a complex issue arises, Ubuntu Pro + Support ensures you have Canonical experts on hand to help. Supplementing ESM with suppor...
2025-02-17 09:00
RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs
Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative mat...
2025-02-17 08:53
Intel PyTorch Extnesion 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...
2025-02-17 08:47
Intel PyTorch Extension 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...
2025-02-17 08:47
7 considerations when building your ML architecture
As the number of organizations moving their ML projects to production is growing, the need to build reliable, scalable architecture has become a more pressing concern. According to BCG (Boston Consulting Group), only 6% of organizations are investing i...
2025-02-17 08:34
KVM-Powered MatterV 0.7 Can Run Unmodified VMware VMs
MatterV 0.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source virtual machine management platform built atop KVM. MatterV aims to make it easy to manage VMs across different environments while with today's v0.7 release adds the ability to ...
2025-02-17 06:31
Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support
Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities...
2025-02-17 06:06
Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support
Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop...
2025-02-17 05:54
How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10
When you log in to Ubuntu 24.10 an audio clip plays to greet you — a lengthy audio clip that slowly builds to a plinky-plonky crescendo that you—or those around you—may tire of having to sit through! But you can turn Ubuntu’s startup sound off,...
2025-02-16 20:21
Linux 6.14-rc3 Released With Faux Bus & Various Fixes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc3 as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.14 that will debuting as stable before the end of March...
2025-02-16 17:32
New "Faux Bus" API Merged For Linux 6.14 - Including Both Rust & C Bindings
A few weeks back the Linux kernel "Faux Bus" was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a "fake" bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust languag...
2025-02-16 16:10
GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwaita Fonts, More
GNOME 48 Beta is now available for public testing with a new GNOME Display Control utility, support for configuring HDR via the DisplayConfig D-Bus API, and more. Here’s what's new! The post GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwa...
2025-02-16 12:19