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Intel Arc B580 Linux Graphics Driver Performance One Month After Launch
Yesterday I looked at how the Intel OpenCL GPU compute performance evolved for the Arc Graphics B580 in the one month since that first Battlemage graphics card premiered. There were nice Intel GPU compute optimizations merged over the past month to imp...
2025-01-14 15:47
GNOME 48 Desktop Introducing An Official Audio Player: Decibels
The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels...
2025-01-14 12:19
OpenVINO with Generative AI
The openSUSE Innovator initiative and the Intel Innovator program play a crucial role in ensuring that the openVINO repository remains up to date for the openSUSE Linux distribution community, which I continually to strive to help. OpenVINO (Open Visua...
2025-01-14 12:00
GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support
ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the "x32" x86 effort that never really took off on Linux. ARM64 ILP32 support never ended up making it into the mainline Linux kernel or GNU C Library but did appear ...
2025-01-14 11:01
Your data applications, contained and maintained
Introducing trusted open source database containers  It’s time to stop proclaiming that “cloud native is the future”. Kubernetes has just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and 76% of respondents to the latest CNCF Annual Survey reported that t...
2025-01-14 10:40
Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support Still Poses A Challenge For Linux Laptops
Back in 2022 there were Linux kernel developers like Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman recommending that Intel Alder Lake laptops be avoided. This was due to the Intel web camera support in those new-at-the-time laptops yet to be properly up...
2025-01-14 10:11
How to build your first model using DSS
GenAI is transforming how we approach technology. This blog explores how you can use Canonical’s Data Science Stack (DSS) to set up your environment and dive into Hugging Face’s new self-paced course on LLMs. Learn how to build your first model and...
2025-01-14 08:29
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands More Performance Optimizations Ahead Of The B570
It's not only the Intel GPU compute stack seeing some nice improvements recently but over with the Mesa 25.0-devel code for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver there have been some new performance optimizations arriving this week...
2025-01-14 06:55
Haiku OS Gets The Iceweasel Web Browser Up & Running
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system has published their latest monthly development report. During December they worked on a number of features and fixes as well as getting a modern web browser up and running...
2025-01-14 06:36
JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains
For those looking toward better I/O performance with Java, there is JUring for making use of IO_uring and the reported performance benefits are very enticing...
2025-01-14 06:23
Intel's Open Image Denoise Begins Preparing For Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics
Open Image Denoise 2.3.2 was released by Intel on Monday. Contrary to being a point release, it's actually an exciting update...
2025-01-14 06:09
Enlightenment 0.27 Released with Bug Fixes, New Modules
Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment. Though not as well known or widely used as GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, et al, Enlightenment (often abbreviated as just ‘E’...
2025-01-14 01:30
OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More
OpenZFS 2.3 file system and volume manager is now available for download with support for Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and several new features. Here's what's new! The post OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More appe...
2025-01-14 00:38
OpenZFS 2.3 Released With RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, Direct I/O & Other Great Improvements
OpenZFS 2.3 is out as stable this evening as the latest major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation used on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3 is heavy on new features...
2025-01-13 20:42
Fedora 42 Cleared To Ship WSL Images For Easy Windows Subsystem For Linux Use
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted approval of the change proposal for shipping Fedora Linux WSL images to enhance the user experience for those wanting to run this Linux distribution within the confines of Microsoft's Wi...
2025-01-13 20:25
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offers Wayland Support for the LXQt Desktop
openSUSE Tumbleweed users can now install the latest LXQt desktop environment with Wayland support from the official repositories. Here's how! The post openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offers Wayland Support for the LXQt Desktop appeared first on 9to5Linux - do...
2025-01-13 19:45
The Unique Challenges of Open Data Projects: Lessons From Overture Maps Foundation
By Marc Prioleau, Executive Director of Overture Maps Foundation 
2025-01-13 17:05
DXVK 2.5.3 Brings Improvements for Far Cry 5, Max Payne 3, and Other Games
DXVK 2.5.3 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games. The post DXVK 2.5.3 Brings Improvements for Far Cry 5, Max Payne 3, and Other Games appeared first on 9...
2025-01-13 16:01
Intel Battlemage Showing Off Nice OpenCL Gains With Newest Open-Source Compute Stack
Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers... Today it's a pleasure to report that with the newest open-source GPU compute stack as of...
2025-01-13 14:52
MX Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and Linux 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9
MX Linux 23.5 distribution is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux 12.9 “Bookworm” and powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here’s what’s new! The post MX Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and Linux 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9 ...
2025-01-13 13:28