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Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux
The Linux 6.11 kernel introduced getrandom() in the vDSO for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. In addition to patches pending for Glibc to make use of getrandom() vDSO support, Golang is now another early user of this functio...
2024-10-02 06:34
OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance
For those making use of OpenVPN for your virtual private network (VPN) needs, years in the making has been an "OVPN" Linux kernel driver to enhance the performance by offloading more of the work to kernel-space...
2024-10-02 06:19
Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options
Manjaro 24.1 "Xahea" debuted on Tuesday as the newest update to this Arch Linux based distribution. Manjaro 24.1 is the first new tagged release since May and with it comes updated desktop options, the Linux 6.10 kernel, and other package upgrades...
2024-10-02 05:53
Audacious 4.4.1 Released with Assorted Minor Improvements
A chorus of improvements are on offer in the newest update to the popular open source, cross-platform Audacious music player. Audacious 4.4.1 builds on the changes introduced in Audacious 4.4 (a release that brought GTK3 and Qt6 UI choices, the return ...
2024-10-02 01:34
Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September
Back in May Steam on Linux usage crossed the 2% threshold and remained that way until August when it dropped back below 2% for all Steam gamers. The September 2024 Steam Survey results were just published and point to another downward bump for Steam on...
2024-10-01 20:21
Firefox 132 Enters Beta with Support for Blocking Third-Party Cookie Access
Firefox 132 web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for blocking third-party cookie access and HTTP-favicons, WebRender hardware accelerated rendering for most SVG Filter Primitives, and other changes. Here's what to expect! T...
2024-10-01 14:34
Python 3.13 Sees Last Minute Delay Due To Performance Regression
Python 3.13 had been scheduled for release today with a new interactive interpreter, experimental free-threaded build mode to disable the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), an experimental JIT, and other shiny new features. But a performance regression has...
2024-10-01 13:41
Intel Preparing New "Staging" Feature For Better Handling CPU Microcode Updates
Intel is preparing a new staging feature for better handling of CPU microcode updates. Initial patches for the Linux kernel are out for discussion in enabling this feature that can yield around a 40% reduction in latency during the CPU microcode updati...
2024-10-01 13:17
Kernel Recipes 2024 Slides & Videos Posted
Taking place last week in Paris was the annual Kernel Recipes conference devoted to a variety of Linux topics and sponsored by Meta, Dell, Arm, AMD, and other organizations. The slides and videos from the different Linux/open-source talks are now onlin...
2024-10-01 11:20
Supermicro ARS-211M-NR AmpereOne Server With R13SPD Motherboard
One of the interesting highlights of September was finally having our hands on an AmpereOne server! After years of being eager to test Ampere Computing's next-generation AArch64 server processors, Ampere sent over their 192-core flagship server process...
2024-10-01 10:34
Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust
Open-source developer Zeeshan Ali Khan presented at last week's systemd "All Systems Go" developer conference on busd as a new D-Bus broker written in the Rust programming language...
2024-10-01 10:00
AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series
Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...
2024-10-01 09:52
Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support
Firefox 131 is out today with a few improvements worth mentioning for Mozilla's web browser...
2024-10-01 09:44
Mozilla Firefox 131 Brings Tab Hover Previews, URL Fragments + More
Mozilla Firefox 131 is now available to download with a small set of improvements in tow. The first change I noticed when opening Firefox 131 is the new icon for the ‘all tabs’ feature1. Previously a small downward pointing arrow, this new—more o...
2024-10-01 09:00
Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10
For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 rele...
2024-10-01 06:50
Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance
While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won't be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targeting the Linux 6.13 cycle that in turn will be the first major Linux ke...
2024-10-01 06:25
WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come
Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as th...
2024-10-01 06:17
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September
During the month of September on Phoronix there were 265 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles. Here's a look back at the most exciting content for September...
2024-10-01 06:07
Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models
If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer...
2024-10-01 02:00
Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit
The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...
2024-09-30 20:00