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Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver
Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running...
2024-10-04 06:52
Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers w...
2024-10-04 06:39
Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6
Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...
2024-10-04 06:31
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is n...
2024-10-04 06:14
Debian welcomes Freexian as our newest partner!
We are excited to announce and welcome Freexian into Debian Partners. Freexian specializes in Free Software with a particular focus on Debian GNU/Linux. Freexian can assist with consulting, training, technical support, packaging, or software developme...
2024-10-04 03:17
Parabolic (Video Downloader) Rewritten in C++, Adjusts UI
There are plenty of ways to download videos from well-known video streaming sites on Ubuntu but I find Parabolic the easiest, least hassle option out there. For those yet to hear about it, Parabolic is a GTK4/libadwaita app for Linux (or a Qt one for W...
2024-10-04 00:33
New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs
A new set of patches from AMD Linux engineers today aim to boost the performance for heterogeneous CPU designs such as the recent Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs that have multiple core types...
2024-10-03 20:22
Canonical at Cloud Expo 2024
The Cloud Expo Madrid 2024 will run on 16 and 17 October at IFEMA Madrid. Come down to our booth, K87, to meet us and chat about Cloud, AI, ML and more.
2024-10-03 15:09
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2024-10-03 14:56
Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" List Prices Top Out At $17,800 USD
Last week with the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors, Intel didn't disclose their list prices... Today they added the Granite Rapids list prices to their ARK database. With Granite Rapids making Intel much more competitive to t...
2024-10-03 14:30
Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes
Mesa 24.2.4 is out today as the newest stable point release to this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers...
2024-10-03 13:58
MRDIMM 8800MT/s vs. DDR5-6400 Memory Performance With Intel Xeon 6
Last week when kicking off the Intel Granite Rapids benchmarking with the Xeon 6980P processors there was particularly strong performance within HPC and other scientific computing workloads. Besides going now up to 128 cores / 256 threads per socket, a...
2024-10-03 11:15
Fedora's Kernel Build Now Enabling Sched_Ext Support
Now that sched_ext was upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel as part of the many great features in Linux 6.12, Fedora's kernel builds are prepared to enable this innovative scheduler feature that allows for new scheduling policies to be loaded via ...
2024-10-03 08:37
Google Updates Patches For AutoFDO+Propeller Optimized Linux Kernel
Google engineers have been working on support for the Linux kernel to leverage AutoFDO feedback directed optimizations and Propeller optimizations when compiling the Linux kernel with LLVM/Clang. In turn this can help Linux systems see 2~10% better per...
2024-10-03 06:48
Giga Computing Announces GA On Their AmpereOne Servers
After years of AmpereComputing talking about AmpereOne AArch64 server processors, it looks like we are finally on the cusp of seeing broader availability of the processors and servers/motherboards for this ARM server platform up to 192 cores. At the en...
2024-10-03 06:17
NetworkManager 1.50 Released - Now Ensures Offensive Terms Don't Appear In Settings
NetworkManager 1.50 released on Wednesday as the newest version of this software commonly used on the Linux desktop for managing wired and wireless network connections...
2024-10-03 06:00
UXL Foundation Hosting Virtual oneAPI DevSummit 2024 Next Week
The Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL Foundation), which was formed out of Intel's oneAPI software efforts, will be hosting a virtual developer summit...
2024-10-03 05:46
Mozilla’s New Logo Looks Even Better Animated
A few months ago I reported that Mozilla is getting a brand revamp and that it incorporates the non-profit company’s iconic red dinosaur mascot – now I have a bit more info. A reader, Nicolas, recently pointed me to the website of global design age...
2024-10-03 01:08
Mozilla’s New Branding Looks Even Better Animated
A few months ago I reported that Mozilla is getting a brand revamp and that it incorporates the non-profit company’s iconic red dinosaur mascot – now I have a lick more info. A reader, Nicolas, recently pointed me to the website of global design ag...
2024-10-03 01:08
NetworkManager 1.50 Adds Support for Configuring Wi-Fi Channel Width in AP Mode
NetworkManager 1.50 open-source network connection manager for Linux-based distributions is now available with various improvements and new features. Here’s what’s new! The post NetworkManager 1.50 Adds Support for Configuring Wi-Fi Channel Width i...
2024-10-03 00:25