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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Merges "Major Improvement" For Xe3 With VRT Support
The open-source Intel Linux Mesa graphics driver code has merged support for a "major improvement" found with next-gen Xe3 graphics... Variable Register Thread (VRT) as one of the nifty features that will help with Intel integrated and discrete graphic...
2025-01-30 06:38
SoundWire Multi-Lane Support Submitted For Linux 6.14
All of the MIPI SoundWire related updates have been submitted for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel. SoundWire as a reminder is the standard interface for modern, small audio peripherals...
2025-01-30 06:20
Linux 6.14 CXL Updates Make Preparations Around Type 2 Support & CXL 3.1
The Compute Express Link (CXL) updates have been sent out and merged for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-30 04:00
Thunderbird Email Client Moving to Monthly Feature Drops
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
2025-01-30 00:41
Thunderbird Moves to Monthly Updates from March 2025
The Thunderbird email client is making its monthly ‘release channel’ builds the default download starting in March. “We’re excited to announce that starting with the 135.0 release in March 2025, the Thunderbird Release channel will be the defau...
2025-01-30 00:41
Wine Merge Request Opened For NTSYNC In-Process Synchronization With Linux 6.14+
Now that the full-functioning NTSYNC driver is ready for Linux 6.14 for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives on Linux, the merge request has been opened for upstream Wine to land the NTSYNC integration on its side for in-process s...
2025-01-29 20:32
AMD GPU Operator Announced For Automated Driver Installation & Kubernetes Support
AMD today announced two new software projects to better enhance their software support for Instinct accelerators / graphics deployments within the data center: AMD GPU Operator and AMD Metrics Exporter...
2025-01-29 20:21
Confirmed: Ubuntu Dev Discussions Moving to Matrix
Ubuntu’s key developers have agreed to switch to Matrix as the primary platform for real-time development communications involving the distro. From March, Matrix will replace IRC as the place where critical Ubuntu development conversations, requests,...
2025-01-29 16:17
Protect your VPN from TunnelVision attacks with NetworkManager
Many users trust in a variety of VPN solutions to securely protect their privacy or access to personal or company’s resources when connecting from an untrusted network. This may be an airport or cafe’s WiFi network. This article describes how to us...
2025-01-29 15:43
Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"
Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...
2025-01-29 15:29
X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon
About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up...
2025-01-29 13:07
PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support For x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience
PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...
2025-01-29 12:49
Ubuntu Developers Moving From IRC To Matrix For Real-Time Communication
Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...
2025-01-29 10:34
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January 2025
Tumbleweed remains a strong example of a reliable rolling release as we step into 2025. This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates! Two much anticipated major version updates arrived in snapshots this month; GIMP’s release ca...
2025-01-29 09:00
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to w...
2025-01-29 09:00
GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations
As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...
2025-01-29 08:43
Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput
Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eB...
2025-01-29 08:30
Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO
AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
2025-01-29 06:54
Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode
Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops. New ISOs for testing were recently published and allow enabling more features/functionality for these ARM laptops under Ubuntu...
2025-01-29 06:28
Linux 6.14 NFS Adds Direct I/O With LOCALIO, Attribute Delegation Support
The Network File System (NFS) client and server changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-29 06:12