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An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1
With Linux 6.14-rc1 released I have begun trying out the new development kernel on a few systems locally. At least for high core count hardware tested thus far, Linux 6.14 at the moment during this early testing phase is sporting some performance regre...
2025-02-04 15:20
Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decoding For AMD GPUs On Linux By Default
With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this next iteration of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is finally enabling hardware video acceleration by default for AMD GPUs on Linux...
2025-02-04 14:04
FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling
Landing this week in the FFmpeg open-source library that is widely-used by multimedia applications was NVIDIA video acceleration improvements for Blackwell GPUs. Over on the AMD side, there are also some interesting changes to have been merged this wee...
2025-02-04 12:55
Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads
While the Linux kernel itself may not be often viewed as a bottleneck to typical high performance computing (HPC) workloads, optimizing the Linux kernel with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) can prove worthwhile for those seeking maximum performance ...
2025-02-04 12:37
Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status report to highlight the progress their developers made over the course of January...
2025-02-04 11:49
FFmpeg Lands Video Encoding/Decoding Improvements For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
Merged this week to FFmpeg Git for this widely-used open-source multimedia library are a number of NVIDIA video encoding "NVENC" improvements for benefiting the new GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics processors...
2025-02-04 10:27
Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, AI Chatbot Access + More
Right on schedule, a new update to the Mozilla Firefox web browser is available for download. Last month’s Firefox 134 release saw the New Tab page layout refreshed for users in the United States, let Linux go hands-on with touch-hold gestures, seede...
2025-02-04 10:10
Ubuntu Infrastructure Woe Continues Making It A Hassle To Run The Latest Upstream Kernel
The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA for years has been a great feature for Ubuntu users to be able to easily fetch and run the newest upstream kernel whether it's the latest stable kernel version, one of the weekly release candidates, or even the very leadi...
2025-02-04 08:42
Linux 6.15 Looks Like It May Try Again With EXECMEM_ROX Support
Initially merged back for the Linux 6.13 kernel was EXECMEM_ROX support for module text on x86_64 systems. With this caching of large ROX pages it can help with lowering TLB instruction pressure and enhancing performance. But this EXECMEM_ROX support t...
2025-02-04 06:43
Debian 13 Will Aim To Include GNOME 48, Debian/Ubuntu Begin Packaging GNOME Papers
For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in...
2025-02-04 06:31
Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi
Igalia engineers José María Casanova Crespo and Maíra Canal presented at FOSDEM this past weekend in Brussels around the efforts by this open-source consulting firm to further enhance the 3D performance out of the Raspberry Pi single board computers...
2025-02-04 06:12
Serpent OS Development Slowing Down Amid Lack Of Funding
Serpent OS is the original Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame and has been pursuing its own package management system and new innovations in the Linux distribution landscape. While there has been recent success and new devel...
2025-02-03 20:40
Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux
Ardour 8.11 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed in this release! The post Ardour 8.11 Open-Source DAW Is Out to Fix a Critical Workflow-Blocking Bug on Linux appeared fir...
2025-02-03 17:42
FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working
In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver c...
2025-02-03 17:02
GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution
Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO work...
2025-02-03 16:06
Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support
PorteuX 1.9 is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13, Docker support, and other changes. Here’s what's new! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduc...
2025-02-03 14:50
Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...
2025-02-03 14:43
Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 135 open-source web browser is now available for download with XZ packaging on Linux and other Linux changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2025-02-03 13:44
Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint Readers
Fwupd 2.0.5 open-source Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with support for more ELAN Fingerprint readers and other changes. Here’s what’s new! The post Fwupd 2.0.5 Firmware Updater Adds Support for More ELAN Fingerprint R...
2025-02-03 13:39
Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver
Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...
2025-02-03 13:20