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Flock to Fedora 2025: Prague, June 5th – 8th!
Get ready to pack your bags and join us for Flock to Fedora 2025, coming to the beautiful city of Prague, Czechia, from June 5th to 8th, 2025! We are heading to Prague in June 2025. The call for proposals opens today, and read on for more details about...
2025-01-23 19:40
Vivaldi 7.1 Delivers Speed Dial Buffs, New Search Engine
Vivaldi web browser has just released its first major update of the year – a corker it is, too! Fans of the Chromium-based browser—though Vivaldi Technologies doesn’t appear to be part of the new Linux Foundation-led Supporters of Chromium Browse...
2025-01-23 19:19
GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager
GNOME 46.8 is now available as the eighth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and small improvements. The post GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Mana...
2025-01-23 16:45
x86 32-bit Operating Systems Aren't Dead Yet: New Linux Patches Improve 32-bit PAE
The Linux x86 32-bit PAE kernel support for Physical Address Extensions allows addressing more than 4GB of memory for those still running 32-bit processors or otherwise opting to still run a 32-bit OS. While the Linux x86 32-bit specific code rarely se...
2025-01-23 15:18
Submit a Presentation for the openSUSE Conference
The call for papers for openSUSE Conference 2025 is open. The conference is scheduled to take place June 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Germany. Until April 30, people can submit proposals for a talk or workshop to share insights and their expertise. People ha...
2025-01-23 14:00
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta 2 Improves systemd-homed Support
Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta while today a second beta was issued...
2025-01-23 12:49
Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"
All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State C...
2025-01-23 12:31
Redis 8.0-M3 Brings Async I/O Threading, 12x Speed-Up With New AVX2 Code Path
For those making use of the source-available Redis in-memory key-value database, the upcoming Redis 8.0 will offer better performance on today's high core count systems and servers...
2025-01-23 11:05
Debian 15 Is Codenamed "Duke"
With Debian 13 freeze dates announced and that Debian 13.0 "Trixie" release working its way toward release likely around August, it's then to be followed by beginning development on Debian 14 codenamed as "Forky". Yesterday when announcing the Debian T...
2025-01-23 10:04
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned
Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...
2025-01-23 09:00
Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14
The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processor...
2025-01-23 08:37
Red Hat Preparing Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Monitoring & Adaptive Performance Tuning
The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power-profiles-daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system perfor...
2025-01-23 06:51
Minor Benefit Observed For Caching Symlink Lengths Within inodes On Linux 6.14
Along with other VFS pull requests for Linux 6.14 to introduce STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN, adding a new mountinfo program, VirtualBox guest support for ARM64 VMs, and faster /proc/kcore reading, another VFS pull for this new kernel brings a minor performance...
2025-01-23 06:43
Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops
Newer laptops pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows have begun adding a "Copilot" key for launching Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant or other "chatbot" software. With the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel, that key will be mapped out correctly so that user-space ...
2025-01-23 06:32
PanVK Driver Now Exposing Vulkan 1.1 For Arm Mali Valhall v10 GPUs
With the newest code merged for Mesa 25.0, the Panfrost PanVK driver is exposing Vulkan 1.1 support on Arm Valhall "v10" graphics processors...
2025-01-23 06:18
Ignition is a Modern Startup Applications Utility for Linux
I won’t lie: it’s easy to add or remove startup apps, commands, and scripts in Ubuntu. Just open the Startup Applications tool, click ‘Add’, and away you go. But while Ubuntu’s utility is adequate, it’s not as user-friendly as similar tools...
2025-01-22 21:18
Landlock Security Module Able To Deal With "Weird Files" On Linux 6.14
The Landlock Linux security module that was added to the mainline Linux kernel four years ago for unprivileged application sandboxing and similar access controls has a rather weird update for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel: Land lock can now deal...
2025-01-22 20:33
Initial Freeze Dates Announced For Debian 13.0 "Trixie"
With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...
2025-01-22 19:14
Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor
Archinstall 3.0.2 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor, Btrfs improvements, disk partitioning enhancements, and more. The post Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Way...
2025-01-22 18:58