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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing
Earlier this month at CES was the announcement of the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. Among the first of these consumer Blackwell GPUs is the GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card that is set to retail for $1999 USD. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Fo...
2025-01-20 09:00
Linux 6.14 To Allow VirtualBox Guest Support On ARM64 VMs
The Linux 6.14 kernel will enable the VirtualBox guest drivers to be built for ARM64 Linux virtual machines (VMs)...
2025-01-20 08:48
More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"
For the Linux 6.13 cycle the Rust code was hitting a "tipping point" with more Rust kernel drivers expected soon. For Linux 6.14 there is indeed a lot more Rust code being primed for this next kernel version...
2025-01-20 07:04
Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q4 Adds Battlemage GPU Support
Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patch...
2025-01-20 06:45
Many Scheduler Improvements Ready To Better Enhance The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Ingo Molnar sent out the big batch of scheduler enhancements bright and early today for helping kick off the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-20 06:37
Open-Source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver Lands Ray Query Support
The "TURNIP" open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs...
2025-01-20 06:26
Linux 6.14 Adding "STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN" To Address A Performance Pitfall
Among the VFS pull requests sent out this weekend in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window formally opening were the VFS direct I/O (DIO) updates that introduce a new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN field for addressing a possible performance pitfall...
2025-01-20 06:19
Linux Kernel 6.13 Released with Big Changes
The first new kernel release of the year has arrived — yes, Linux 6.13 has gone stable. Linux kernel 6.13 adds, as ever, a vast array of improvements, from an updated Raspberry Pi graphics driver promising speed gains, to lazy preemption logic, expan...
2025-01-20 01:08
Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 6.13 is now available for download with new features, enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to filesystems and networking, and much more. Here’s what’s new! The post Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Releas...
2025-01-19 23:59
Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2025.1 Is Out with Linux 6.12, Rhino Stampede, and More
Rhino Linux 2025.1 distribution is now available for download with new GRUB theme, dynamic workspaces, Linux kernel 6.12, new testing meta-package, Pacstall changes, and more. The post Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2025.1 Is Out with Linux 6.12, Rhino Stamp...
2025-01-19 20:20
Linux 6.13 Released With AutoFDO + Propeller, AMD Changes & Broader Apple Support
As anticipated the Linux 6.13 kernel was promoted to stable today with an on-time release and in turn also marking the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window. Linux 6.13 stable has plenty of fine features for this first major kernel release of 2025...
2025-01-19 19:00
Linux To Allow Adjusting pid_max Per PID Namespace - Helping Old Software
The pid_max tunable for the maximum number of process IDs allowed simultaneously was increased by default back in 2019 with systemd. But that increase breaks a long held assumption by some user-space software that pid_max or the process ID would not be...
2025-01-19 06:53
A Last Minute Fix For EEVDF Scheduling Lag With Linux 6.13
Ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable kernel expected to be released later today, there is a last minute fix for the EEVDF CPU scheduler...
2025-01-19 06:31
Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 Brings Improved Compatibility, New Performance Optimizations
Following the release a few days ago of GNU Coreutils 9.6, the Rust Coreutils "uutils" project as a re-implementation of these core utilities within the Rust programming language is out with a fresh update...
2025-01-19 06:15
Linux 6.14 EDAC Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest, Adds LoongArch Driver For ECC Memory
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been sent out in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening...
2025-01-19 05:57
MorphOS 3.19 released
It’s been about 18 months, but we’ve got a new release for MorphOS, the Amiga-like operating system for PowerPC Macs and some other PowerPC-based machines. Going through the list of changes, it seems MorphOS 3.19 focuses heavily on fixing bugs and ...
2025-01-18 21:35
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Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to ...
2025-01-18 20:27
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Dillo 3.2.0 released
We’ve got a new Dillo release for you this weekend! We added SVG support for math formulas and other simple SVG images by patching the nanosvg library. This is specially relevant for Wikipedia math articles. We also added optional support for WebP im...
2025-01-18 19:24
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Node.js set to stabilize type stripping
Node.js, the popular JavaScript runtime, is moving to stabilize type stripping, a feature that allows developers to execute TypeScript files without source maps or additional configuration, speeding up the development process. The Node.js runtime was ...
2025-01-18 18:58
Dillo 3.2 Open-Source Web Browser Released to Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Dillo 3.2 open-source web browser is now available for download with SVG support for math formulas, support for WebP images, and more. Here's what's new! The post Dillo 3.2 Open-Source Web Browser Released to Celebrate 25th Anniversary appeared first o...
2025-01-18 17:56