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Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand
The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this porti...
2024-12-21 08:44
Never forgive them
The people running the majority of internet services have used a combination of monopolies and a cartel-like commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking to make war with the user, turning the customer into something between a lab rat and an unpaid int...
2024-12-21 08:26
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AdaptiveCpp 24.10 Delivers More Performance Optimizations
AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimiza...
2024-12-21 06:48
GNOME User Sharing Ported From C To Rust, libadwaita Adds Adaptive Preview Mode
It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to ...
2024-12-21 06:21
KDE Plasma 6.3 Improving Game Controller Joystick Support, Many Fixes
While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes...
2024-12-21 05:58
What does APPEND do in DOS?
The working principle of APPEND is not complicated. It primarily serves as a bridge between old DOS applications which have no or poor support for directories, and users who really, really want to organize files and programs in multiple directories and...
2024-12-20 23:23
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T2 Linux takes weird architectures seriously, including my beloved PA-RISC
With more and more Linux distributions – as well as the kernel itself – dropping support for more exotic, often dead architectures, it’s a blessing T2 Linux exists. This unique, source-based Linux distribution focuses on making it as easy as poss...
2024-12-20 21:47
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AMD ROCm 6.3.1 Released With Instinct MI325X Support, ROCm Runfile Installer
Building off the ROCm 6.3 release from earlier this month, there's been a Friday night drop of ROCm 6.3.1 with some rather exciting end-of-year improvements...
2024-12-20 20:47
How Chrome's Autofill can drive more conversions at checkout
Learn how Google Chrome’s autofill feature can reduce the time you spend filling out forms and make online checkouts a breeze.
2024-12-20 20:40
Wine 10.0-rc3 Released With A 16 Year Old Bug "Fixed"
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 10.0 is now available for testing with another 15 bugs fixed this week...
2024-12-20 20:21
Debian-Based Grml 2024.12 Linux Distro Is Out with Support for 64-Bit ARM CPUs
Grml 2024.12 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing and powered by Linux kernel 6.11. Here's what's new! The post Debian-Based Grml 2024.12 Linux Distro Is Out with Support for 64-Bit ARM CPUs appeared first on 9to...
2024-12-20 20:05
Ubuntu Users Get Easier Access to Cutting-Edge Intel Drivers
Canonical and Intel have announced they’re making it easier for Ubuntu users to get cutting-edge drivers for Intel’s newest discrete GPUs. The effort brings “ray tracing and improved machine learning performance” for Intel Arc B580 and B570 “...
2024-12-20 17:18
New Package Management Tool Debuts
YQPkg, a promising new package management tool for openSUSE, is preparing to make waves in the Linux community. Designed as a standalone GUI, the software package offers a lightweight, intuitive alternative to traditional tools like YaST for users of o...
2024-12-20 17:00
Intel admits it no longer controls the direction of x86
Remember x86S, Intel’s initiative to create a 64bit-only x86 instruction set, with the goal of removing some of the bloat that the venerable architecture accumulated over the decades? Well, this initiative is now dead, and more or less replaced with ...
2024-12-20 16:05
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Linux 6.13-rc4 To Fix A Nasty USB Problem Plaguing The Kernel For A Few Weeks
Merged to Linux Git minutes ago and ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc4 tagging on Sunday were this week's set of USB fixes that are particularly noteworthy. Most significant is fixing a USB regression that had been present in the stack since the Linux 6.13 me...
2024-12-20 14:55
DXVK 2.5.2 Improves Support for Alpha Protocol, Borderlands 2, and Other Games
DXVK 2.5.2 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games. The post DXVK 2.5.2 Improves Support for Alpha Protocol, Borderlands 2, and Other Games appeared first ...
2024-12-20 14:27
AMD Launches A YouTube Channel For Developers
If you are looking for some interesting technical content to watch over the holidays or end-of-year downtime, AMD shared today that they have launched their own YouTube channel for developer-related content...
2024-12-20 14:03
OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool
The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...
2024-12-20 12:12
Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released With Data Control & Workspace Additions
Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols...
2024-12-20 11:07