9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 15th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for September 15th, 2024, brings news about Linux 6.11, VirtualBox 7.1, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Ardour 8.7, Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9, Juno Tab 3 Linux tablet, KDE Plasma 6.2 beta, new Linux laptop, as well as all the latest dist...
AmpereOne Performance With GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers
While having the Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server in the lab for AmpereOne benchmarking with the flagship AmpereOne A192-32X processor, I took the opportunity to run some fresh GCC vs. LLVM Clang compiler performance benchmarks on AArch64. Here are...
Inviting testers for Git forge usecases
Following @t0xic0der and @humaton’s talk on the Git forge ARC (Advance Reconaissance Crew) investigation during Fedora Linux Release Party 40 and more recently, @humaton’s talk on the topic during Flock To Fedora 2024 – we have opened up our ...
Linux Kernel 6.11 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Linux kernel 6.11 is now available for download with new features, better hardware support, networking enhancements, and much more. The post Linux Kernel 6.11 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not repro...
Linux Kernel 6.11 Released, This is What’s New
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 6.11, which is the kernel version Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS will offer. Fittingly, this update arrives a few days before the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit takes place in Vienna, Austri...
Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel
Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of...
Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support
With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some...
GNOME Mutter Merges XDG Session Management Wayland Protocol
As a very last minute change ahead of tagging GNOME Mutter 47, merged this morning to Mutter is support for the XDG session management Wayland protocol. This protocol is useful for letting clients request support from the compositor for saving the wind...
