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Linux 6.13 Delivering Some Incremental Gains With AMD EPYC 9575F Performance
With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel one of the biggest features for those using new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors is using the AMD P-State driver by default for servers/motherboards with ACPI CPPC support enabled. But even for platforms withou...
2024-12-11 11:30
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Price Lowered, Ubuntu 24.04 Support Ready
Going back to April 2024, SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as an interesting RISC-V developer board to succeed their HiFive Unleashed that was a nice little RISC-V board. There were delays in shipping the HiFive Premier P550 but they have been ...
2024-12-11 11:10
QEMU 9.2 Brings AWS Nitro Enclave Emulation, Many RISC-V Improvements
QEMU 9.2 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with various improvements and new features. Here’s what’s new! The post QEMU 9.2 Brings AWS Nitro Enclave Emulation, Many RISC-V Improvements appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2024-12-11 11:04
OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 Released With KDE Plasma 6 Desktop By Default
For fans of OpenMandriva or just wanting to reminisce over the former Mandrake Linux days, OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 is out today as the newest update to this Linux distribution...
2024-12-11 10:16
Linux, openSUSE ready for Everyday Users
Most people don’t give much thought to their operating system, but with Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, many will start searching for alternatives that keep them secure without spending more than $100 for a software upgrade or on hardware ...
2024-12-11 10:00
AlmaLinux 10 Beta Released For Testing
It was just a little more than one month ago that AlmaLinux Kitten 10 became available for testing for this new OS release derived from the CentOS Stream 10 sources that is upstream to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Today the AlmaLinux crew announced the...
2024-12-11 08:36
Miracle-WM 0.4 Released With i3 IPC Support
Miracle-WM is the Mir-based Wayland tiling window manager that is inspired in part by the likes of i3 and Sway. Miracle-WM also has a goal to be a flagship example of a Mir-based full featured window manager with this project being led by a Canonical e...
2024-12-11 07:24
How AMD Is Taking Standard C/C++ Code To Run Directly On GPUs
Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming...
2024-12-11 06:42
QEMU 9.2 Released With VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support, AVX10 & Experimental Rust Support
QEMU 9.2 is out today for this processor emulator that plays an important role within the open-source Linux virtualization stack...
2024-12-11 06:23
Haiku OS Developers Fixed Plenty Of Bugs In November
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly status update to detail their latest efforts...
2024-12-11 06:12
Tiling Shell Extension Gains Smart Border Radius Detection
Fresh off of adding support for automatic window snapping, the developers behind GNOME Shell’s most configurable and feature-packed window tiling extension are back with another update. Tiling Shell v15.1 introduces support for smart border radius. T...
2024-12-10 22:10
Intel Compute Runtime 24.45 vs. AMD ROCm 6.3 vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux GPU Compute Benchmarks
Complementing yesterday's fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of mid-range Intel Arc Graphics "Alchemist" vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series cards ahead of the upcoming Battlemage availability, today's article is providing a fresh look a...
2024-12-10 20:20
PlayStation 3 Emulator RPCS3 Now Supports Raspberry Pi 5
RPCS3 is an open-source emulator (and debugger) for the Sony PlayStation 3, making it possible for users to play and debug PlayStation 3 games on non-PS3 hardware, like Intel/AMD desktop PCs and laptops running Windows, macOS, or Linux. Now, RPCS3 is a...
2024-12-10 18:31
This PlayStation 3 Emulator Now Supports Raspberry Pi 5
RPCS3 is an open-source emulator (and debugger) for the Sony PlayStation 3, making it possible for users to play and debug PlayStation 3 games on non-PS3 hardware, like Intel/AMD desktop PCs and laptops running Windows, macOS, or Linux. Now, RPCS3 is a...
2024-12-10 18:31
PlayStation 3 Emulator Adds Support for Raspberry Pi 5
RPCS3 is an open-source emulator (and debugger) for the Sony PlayStation 3, making it possible for users to play and debug PlayStation 3 games on non-PS3 hardware, like Intel/AMD desktop PCs and laptops running Windows, macOS, or Linux. Now, RPCS3 is a...
2024-12-10 18:31
Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller: A change of hats!
Okay, wow… deep breath…. Hi everyone! I’ve been the Fedora Project Leader for more than ten years. That’s half of Fedora’s existence as a distribution project. It is my dream job, and I love it, and honestly, I could do it forever. However, I...
2024-12-10 17:00
systemd 257 Debuts With systemd-keyutil & systemd-sbsign Tools, Other Improvements
Coincidentally coming one day after the GNU Shepherd 1.0 service manager release, the systemd 257 release is now shipping as the newest feature release for this widely-used service manager / init system to Linux systems. Systemd 257 brings a number of ...
2024-12-10 14:51
What is SBOM? Software bill of materials explained
An SBOM boils down to a detailed and accessible list of all the components that make up your software and where they come from. n this article, we’ll examine what an SBOM is, what information it must include, and the approaches that developers and ma...
2024-12-10 14:35
SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical announce availability of Ubuntu on the  HiFive Premier P550
We are pleased to announce that SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical are enabling Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a development platform that offers a premium RISC-V development experience, an important milestone for the RISC-V developmen...
2024-12-10 14:29
Ptyxis Becomes Ubuntu's Recommended Replacement To GNOME Terminal
While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...
2024-12-10 13:23