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Laptop Improvements & More AMD Driver Features Merged For Linux 6.14
The x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. As usual the x86 platform driver updates are predominantly to benefit the many different Intel/AMD laptops out there with various OEM vendor features/functionalit...
2025-01-27 06:58
NAMD Molecular Dynamics Performance Improves Well With NVIDIA Blackwell / RTX 5090
With now having a Linux driver for running GPU compute workloads on the GeForce RTX 5090 (as mentioned, Linux gaming benchmarks will come following the formal R570 Linux driver release in the coming days that is better optimized for gaming), I ran some...
2025-01-27 06:46
Reduced SquashFS Memory Use With The Linux 6.14 Kernel, More NILFS2 Fixes
In addition to all of the exciting "MM" changes for Linux 6.14 that were submitted by Andrew Morton's pull request, he also sent out the set of "non-MM" updates for the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-27 06:32
Desktop Motherboards Continue Playing Catch-Up For Linux Monitoring Support
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. As happens with most kernel releases, there are a number of already-launched desktop motherboards beginning to see working sensor monitoring support under Lin...
2025-01-27 06:20
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 26th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for January 26th, 2025, brings news about Wine 10, GNOME 48 alpha, Solus 4.7, Shotcut 25.01, VirtualBox 7.1.6, GNU Linux-libre 6.13 kernel, fwupd 2.0.4, Archinstall 3.0.2, GNOME 47.3, as well as all the latest distro and so...
2025-01-27 02:07
Microsoft Announces Open-Source DocumentDB NoSQL Database
In a blog post dated for this past Thursday but only being made public on Sunday night, Microsoft issued an announcement open-sourcing their new NoSQL database... Where it gets weirder is that it's named DocumentDB. Amazon also has a database offering ...
2025-01-26 20:41
Linux 6.14 To Switch From SHA1 To SHA512 For Module Signing By Default
While many Linux distribution vendor kernels are already using SHA-512 for signing modules by default rather than the default SHA-1, the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel is also now switching the default over to using SHA-512 for better security...
2025-01-26 20:27
ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M Cooler For Ampere Altra 4U Servers/Workstations
For those looking for a heatsink fan to cool a custom build of an Ampere Altra / Altra Max server or workstation, the ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M ends up being a very potent option that offers similar performance to more expensive Ampere Altra heatsinks while ...
2025-01-26 16:46
Varia Download Manager Adds yt-dlp Support
A new version of the Varia download manager was released at the weekend – an update described by its developers as probably the “biggest since the first release”. I’ve written about Varia before and, as I said then, I appreciate that the idea o...
2025-01-26 12:21
AMD Squeezes In More RDNA4 Changes For Linux 6.14 - Enables Cleaner Shader On GFX12
While the main feature pull of new and updated kernel graphics/accelerator drivers were merged already for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window, an additional set of AMDGPU changes were sent out this week for squeezing into this next kernel release...
2025-01-26 10:25
Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings
A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings...
2025-01-26 07:10
Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM
A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...
2025-01-26 06:49
New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...
2025-01-26 06:40
Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud
The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...
2025-01-26 06:21
Solus 4.7 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and Xfce 4.20
Solus 4.7 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux 6.12 LTS and featuring updated GNOME, KDE Plasma, Budgie, and Xfce editions. Here’s what’s new! The post Solus 4.7 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and Xfc...
2025-01-26 05:01
Shotcut 25.01 Video Editor Adds Native Wayland Support on Flatpak for Linux
Shotcut 25.01 open-source video editor is now available for download with native Wayland support in the Flatpak bundle on Linux. The post Shotcut 25.01 Video Editor Adds Native Wayland Support on Flatpak for Linux appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not r...
2025-01-25 23:24
Shotcut 25.01 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Features
The Shotcut open-source video editor is out with its first new release of 2025...
2025-01-25 20:49
Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 Released With Battlemage Video Encode
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...
2025-01-25 15:27
Infomaniak Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25
We are pleased to announce that Infomaniak has committed to sponsor DebConf25 as a Platinum Sponsor. Infomaniak is Switzerland’s leading developer of Web technologies. With operations all over Europe and based exclusively in Switzerland, the company...
2025-01-25 11:22
ISD: A New Interactive Way For systemd Management
ISD is a new open-source project aiming to provide a more "Interactive SystemD" for simplifying management of Linux systems with systemd...
2025-01-25 09:28