Linux

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Releasing This Quarter As Wayland-Only
For fans of the Budgie desktop environment that got its start out of the Solus Linux distribution, the Budgie 10.10 release expected later this quarter will be their first release that is Wayland-only...
2025-01-07 08:33
Running Generative AI Models Locally with Ollama and Open WebUI
Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI, is rapidly evolving and becoming more accessible to everyday users. With large language models (LLMs) such as GPT and LLaMA making waves, the desire to run these models locally on personal hardware i...
2025-01-07 08:00
Device Memory "DMEM" Cgroup Support Ready For Linux 6.14 To Allow Limiting GPU vRAM
A pull request submitted this week to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is introducing the notion of device memory "DMEM" to cgroup with the main intended use being to restrict device memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy such as for...
2025-01-07 06:51
CXL Block Device "CBD" Looking Very Promising For The Linux Kernel In 2025
Originally proposed for the Linux kernel nearly one year ago was CBD as the CXL Block Device. Now up to its third revision, the Linux CBD patches are calming down and the performance gains are looking quite nice...
2025-01-07 06:38
OpenZFS 2.3-rc5 Released With Support For Cross-Compiling Kernel Modules
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release with Monday having brought the fifth and potentially final release candidate...
2025-01-07 06:15
NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" Series
The latest from a rather active CES 2025 is NVIDIA announcing the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series line-up...
2025-01-06 22:24
Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11
Budgie 10.10 desktop environment is slated for release in Q1 2025 as a Wayland-only release defaulting to the Labwc compositor. The post Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11 appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not repro...
2025-01-06 22:01
Long-Time Ubuntu Contributor Steve Langasek Has Passed Away
Sad news from Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth today: longtime Ubuntu and Debian contributor Steve Langasek has passed away. In a touching post on the Ubuntu Discourse, Mark Shuttleworth shares: “Steve passed away at the dawn of 2025. His time was sh...
2025-01-06 21:29
How to Install Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.10
A quick tutorial on how to install the latest and greatest Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) and Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) distributions. The post How to Install Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubunt...
2025-01-06 20:40
Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux
Mozilla Firefox 134 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Firefox 134 Is Out with Support for Touchpad Hold Gestures on Linux appear...
2025-01-06 15:12
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D & Ryzen AI Max, Previews AMD RDNA 4 Graphics
AMD's CES 2025 keynote was used to announce a slew of new products. They are just announcements today without any immediate availability or any hardware reviews to publish, but a look ahead for what is on the horizon for AMD in the consumer space in 2025.
2025-01-06 14:45
DisplayPort 2.1b Arriving This Spring With DP80LL Cables
In addition to the HDMI Forum announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification for release in the first half of this year, VESA also took to CES 2025 to announce their forthcoming DisplayPort 2.1b standard...
2025-01-06 14:12
HDMI 2.2 Announced With 96 Gbps Bandwidth - Still With Restricted Licensing
The HDMI Forum used CES for today announcing the HDMI 2.2 specification that will be available to HDMI 2.x adopters in the first half of the calendar year...
2025-01-06 13:10
Qualcomm Bringing Snapdragon X Series To Mini PCs For As Little As ~$600 USD
Following last year's launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, Qualcomm is using CES 2025 this week in Las Vegas for promoting the Snapdragon X Series for mini desktop form factor PCs. But the Linux support and performance out of these forthco...
2025-01-06 11:33
Firefox 134 Available With Experimental HTML "autocorrect" Attribute
Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow. This first Firefox update of 2025 brings a few new features to Linux users and those on other platforms...
2025-01-06 11:04
NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads
NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO)...
2025-01-06 10:05
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200H / Core Ultra 200HX Series
Intel used the start of CES 2025 for announcing the newest Arrow Lake processors for the Core Ultra 200H and Core Utra 200HX mobile processors...
2025-01-06 09:10
Device Mapper Atomic Write Support Patches Posted
Along with other recent Linux kernel patches around atomic write support, a set of Device Mapper (DM) patches were posted today for implementing said functionality...
2025-01-06 09:01
Fedora Stakeholders Have Been Debating Whether To Retire GlusterFS
A discussion that originally started last summer has been reignited: whether it's time to retire GlusterFS within Fedora Linux. But following discussions in recent days, there may be a new packager willing to take over but it doesn't change the fact of...
2025-01-06 06:46
HiSilicon HIBMC DP Support For Linux 6.14, Additional AMDXDNA Fixes Queued
Maxime Ripard of Red Hat today sent out the first set of "drm-misc-next" patches of 2025 for queuing into DRM-Next until the Linux 6.14 merge window opens in the coming weeks...
2025-01-06 06:25