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Security-Focused ParrotOS 6.3 Distro Brings New and Updated Tools, Improvements
ParrotOS 6.3 Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing is now available for download with new and updated tools, and various improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post Security-Focused ParrotOS 6.3 Distro Brings New and Updated ...
2025-02-01 15:25
GTK's X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5
GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels. GTK developers are working toward the GTK 4.18 stable release and continuing to think more about GTK 5...
2025-02-01 09:25
gendwarfksyms Tool Added To Linux 6.14 To Help With Rust Push
Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.14 kernel were the Kbuild feature changes for this cycle. Most notable with these kernel build changes is the introduction of the gendwarfksyms tool that is used as part of the ongoing Rust programming language push with...
2025-02-01 09:11
Intel Battlemage, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Linux Kernel Excitement From January
During the month of January on Phoronix were 292 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 13 featured-length Linux hardware reviews and other multi-page benchmark specials. Here's a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source n...
2025-02-01 07:00
Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite
The RISC-V CPU architecture feature updates have now been submitted and merged for the nearly-over Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-02-01 06:44
KDE Plasma 6.3: "It's Looking Pretty Good!"
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the past week. With less than two weeks until the Plasma 6.3 stable release, Nate Graham began his weekly update by remarking that the Plas...
2025-02-01 06:22
Wine Wayland Merge Request Opened For Clipboard Support
While Wine 10.0 recently debuted with the initial Wine Wayland driver, that native Wayland support is still in early form with various limitations and yet-to-be-implemented features... One of the newly-opened merge requests for filling in another gap i...
2025-01-31 20:53
"NOVA-Core" Patches Propose Building New NVIDIA Driver Piece-By-Piece In The Linux Kernel
Red Hat engineers have been working on Nova as an open-source driver successor to the Nouveau driver for upstream NVIDIA GPU support within the Linux kernel that can be used with the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. Unlike the prior larger RFC patch series,...
2025-01-31 20:30
TLB Flushing Scalability Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.14 To Benefit AMD / Intel CPUs
While we are approaching the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window with Linux 6.14-rc1 expected on Sunday, the fun isn't over quite yet... Among other last minute pull requests today were a set of patches to work on better optimizing the TLB flushing scal...
2025-01-31 16:57
Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.13
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.13. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday,February 02, ...
2025-01-31 14:43
GNOME 48 Switches Over To "Adwaita Sans" As Default Font
As another last minute change for GNOME 48 ahead of its feature freeze this weekend, the default font of the GNOME desktop has changed...
2025-01-31 12:45
The Compelling AVX-512 Performance Advantage On AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin"
Back in October following the launch of the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors I ran an AVX-512 performance comparison for the EPYC 9755 with 512-bit data path vs. 256-bit data path vs. AVX-512 disabled. That was interesting for showing the benefits of Zen 5...
2025-01-31 10:53
Servo Aims For Shadow DOM & Improved Embedding API In 2025
The Servo open-source browser engine written in Rust has published some of their development statistics and other figures for 2025. Additionally they have shared their planned roadmap for 2025...
2025-01-31 09:41
KVM Enhancements Within The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Along with other Intel TDX changes and AMD SEV updates separately sent out for thei n-development Linux 6.14 kernel, there is the usual hearty batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization updates too...
2025-01-31 08:31
Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" Seeing Progress On Wayland Support
One of the important pieces of open-source software still working toward proper Wayland support is the Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" that in turn is depended upon by software like Steam, OBS Studio, Spotify, and many other software packages for hav...
2025-01-31 06:36
FUSE Hooks Up With IO_uring For Greater Performance Potential In Linux 6.14
The FUSE code within the Linux kernel for enabling file-systems in user-space has a new performance capability up its sleeve with now supporting IO_uring communication between kernel and user-space...
2025-01-31 06:23
NVIDIA VFIO Driver Prepares For Blackwell With Linux 6.14
All of the Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) driver updates were merged this week as we reach the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-31 06:09
GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, Linux 6.12 LTS
GParted 1.7 open-source partition editor is now available for download with experimental support for the Bcachefs file system. GParted Live 1.7 is also out with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. The post GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Suppor...
2025-01-31 03:15
Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions
Mesa 25.0 feature development is now over with the code having been branched from Mesa Git and the Mesa 25.0-rc1 release candidate issued. Mesa 25.0 is to be the next quarterly feature release for these open-source 3D graphics drivers and will hopefull...
2025-01-30 20:36
GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices
GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...
2025-01-30 20:20