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Join Canonical in Sydney at Dell Technologies Forum
Canonical is excited to be exhibiting at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Sydney on the 24th of September. This leading event brings together industry leaders and tech enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements shaping the digital lands...
2024-09-18 13:49
H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg
The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...
2024-09-18 13:08
GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More
GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment...
2024-09-18 11:35
NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS
For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in look...
2024-09-18 09:25
Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations
Not to be confused with the proposal a few days ago by an AMD engineer for Attack Vector Controls for broader control over CPU security mitigation handling, the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel is adding new Kconfig options to allow for more build-time...
2024-09-18 08:00
Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12
The big set of power management updates for Linux 6.12 have landed...
2024-09-18 07:00
Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake
Intel Compute Runtime 24.35.30872.22 released today as the newest tagged version of this open-source GPU compute stack providing oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL support for Linux and Windows systems...
2024-09-18 06:00
Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module
Merged as part of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel is the new Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) module that has been years in the making. Integrity Policy Enforcement is an alternative to access controls...
2024-09-18 04:00
Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12
The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel...
2024-09-18 01:11
Open-Source Alternative to Cursor? Void Aims To Be
VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original. The latest to join the fray is Void. The Github page for Voi...
2024-09-18 00:52
Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor
VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original. The latest to join the fray is Void. The Github page for Voi...
2024-09-18 00:52
Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes Annoying Issue with PWAs in Chromium Snap
Using the Chromium snap app? If you do, and you use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) there’s a bug fix coming down the pipes that will improve your workflow. When you install a PWA1 in the Chromium snap you might expect it to open it in a separate, st...
2024-09-17 17:37
Ubuntu 24.10 Fixes PWA Issue in Chromium Snap
Using the Chromium snap app? If you are, and you use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) or install websites as ‘apps’ there’s a bug fix coming that should improve their behaviour on Ubuntu. When you install a PWA1 in the Chromium snap you mi...
2024-09-17 17:37
Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A.
A patch was sent out on Sunday for adding new Linux kernel configuration options for tuning the kernel build to different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. The intent is on generating kernel builds that are faster for use on modern Intel and AM...
2024-09-17 15:30
Announcing Fedora Linux 41 Beta
Today, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 41 Beta. While we’ll have more to share with the general availability of Fedora Linux 41 in about a month, there is plenty in the beta to get excited about now. Get the...
2024-09-17 13:46
OpenJDK Java 23 Released With ZGC Generational Mode By Default
OpenJDK 23 is now generally available as the reference implementation to Java 23...
2024-09-17 12:30
Fedora Linux 41 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.11 and GNOME 47
Fedora Linux 41 distribution is now available for public beta testing powered by Linux kernel 6.11 and featuring the GNOME 47 desktop environment. Here's what to expect from the final release. The post Fedora Linux 41 Enters Public Beta Testing with Li...
2024-09-17 12:03
Initial AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang
Last week the a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-LLVM-Enablement">initial AMD Zen 5 "znver5" enablement for LLVM/Clang was posted by an AMD compiler engineer. That code has since undergone review and merged for LLVM 20 Git and yesterday th...
2024-09-17 11:35
The Printk Blocker For Upstreaming Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Has Been Merged
The printk changes to finish the NBCON consoles work has been merged for Linux 6.12! This is the last remaining blocker on real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support from being upstreamed. We're now tantalizing close to seeing the real-time kernel support merged a...
2024-09-17 10:19
LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features
LLVM 19.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 19 compiler stack including the Clang 19 C/C++ compiler...
2024-09-17 09:00