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Introducing Data Science Stack: set up an ML environment with 3 commands on Ubuntu 
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the general availability of Data Science Stack (DSS), an out-of-the-box solution for data science that enables ML environments on your AI workstation. It is fully open source, free to use and native t...
2024-09-17 08:44
Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements
The beta of Fedora 41 is out today ahead of the planned stable release in October for this leading-edge Linux distribution with many new features...
2024-09-17 08:00
Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations
Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations...
2024-09-17 07:44
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake
Ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops beginning to ship starting next week, the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 is now available as the latest software update for embracing the Intel NPU for AI offloading...
2024-09-17 07:35
How the OpenSearch Software Foundation Will Ensure Long-Term Sustainability of the OpenSearch Project
Yesterday the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative that will support OpenSearch and its search software, which is used by developers around the world to build search, analytics, obs...
2024-09-17 07:00
Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12
Jakub Kicinski submitted the networking subsystem updates over the weekend for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable this cycle is Device Memory TCP for zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions...
2024-09-17 04:00
FreeBSD 13.4 Released With Many Software Updates & Driver Improvements
The FreeBSD camp today released FreeBSD 13.4 as the newest point release to the FreeBSD 13 stable series for those that haven't yet migrated to the FreeBSD 14 series...
2024-09-17 00:00
ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12
Red Hat engineer Paolo Bonzini submitted the initial batch of KVM changes targeting the Linux 6.12 kernel. This is just the first batch and notably lacking all of the KVM x86 Intel/AMD changes for the cycle. But in the non-x86 space there is a fair amo...
2024-09-17 00:00
AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation
AMD today made public their RDNA 3.5 instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for these updated RDNA3 graphics found within new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs thus far...
2024-09-16 18:00
Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12
All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops...
2024-09-16 16:00
Replay Protected Memory Block "RPMB" Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.12
The MMC updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel include the introduction of a new kernel subsystem for Replay Protected Memory Block (RPMB) drivers...
2024-09-16 15:00
Announcing Authd: OIDC authentication for Ubuntu Desktop and Server
Today we are announcing the general availability of Authd, a new authentication daemon for Ubuntu that allows direct integration with cloud-based identity providers for both Ubuntu Desktop and Server. Authd is available free of charge on Ubuntu 24.04 L...
2024-09-16 14:25
GNU Linux-Libre 6.11 Kernel Released for Software Freedom Lovers
GNU Linux-Libre 6.11 kernel is now available for download. This release is based on Linux kernel 6.11 and it’s targeted at those who seek 100% freedom for their personal computers. The post GNU Linux-Libre 6.11 Kernel Released for Software Freedom Lo...
2024-09-16 14:25
A Re-Implementation Of The EROFS File-System In Rust Has Started
The EROFS read-only open-source file-system has seen initial patches posted today for beginning to re-implement the C code within the Rust programming language for better safety guarantees and the possibility of more performance optimizations...
2024-09-16 13:00
Idea Raised For Reducing The Size Of The AMDGPU Driver With Its Massive Header Files
Following the weekend news of the AMDGPU kernel driver becoming too large that it's causing the Plymouth boot splash screen on slower Linux systems to time-out, longtime AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák expressed a new idea for helping ...
2024-09-16 11:30
MX Linux 23.4 Released with Linux Kernel 6.10, Based on Debian 12.7
MX Linux 23.4 distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 12.7 “Bookworm” and powered by Linux kernel 6.10. Here's what's new! The post MX Linux 23.4 Released with Linux Kernel 6.10, Based on Debian 12.7 appeared first on 9...
2024-09-16 10:38
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 15th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 15th, 2024, brings news about Linux 6.11, VirtualBox 7.1, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Ardour 8.7, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9, Juno Tab 3 Linux tablet, KDE Plasma 6.2 beta, new Linux laptop, as well as all the latest dist...
2024-09-16 09:49
GNU Linux-libre 6.11 Makes Adaptations For Rust, Warns Of Hidden Binary Bits In v6.11
Building off yesterday's Linux 6.11 release, the GNU Linux-libre 6.11-gnu kernel is now available that is the downstream stripping out driver support/features depending upon closed-source microcode/firmware and other modifications in the name of softwa...
2024-09-16 09:32
AmpereOne Performance With GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers
While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are...
2024-09-16 08:42
Inviting testers for Git forge usecases
Following @t0xic0der and @humaton’s talk on the Git forge ARC (Advance Reconaissance Crew) investigation during Fedora Linux Release Party 40 and more recently, @humaton’s talk on the topic during Flock To Fedora 2024 – we have opened up our ...
2024-09-16 08:00