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Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More
It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features...
2024-09-15 09:03
AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems
The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this A...
2024-09-15 06:00
Legacy Intel Sound Driver Support Being Removed In Linux 6.12, Other Big Changes
Yet another early pull request for the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window is the sound (audio) driver updates for this next kernel cycle. There is a lot of sound driver work this cycle from new audio bits to removing legacy Intel driver support...
2024-09-15 05:00
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...
2024-09-15 04:00
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...
2024-09-15 00:00
Linux 6.11 Adds Last Minute Addition For Intel Arrow Lake
The Linux 6.11 kernel is expected to be christened as stable tomorrow. Ahead of that stable release one of the last minute "fixes" is adding in another ID for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors...
2024-09-14 15:57
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...
2024-09-14 10:33
Niri 0.1.9 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings New IPC Functionality
Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust...
2024-09-14 09:00
Casilda Is A New Project As A GTK4 Wayland Compositor Widget
Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...
2024-09-14 07:10
Printk Changes Submitted For Linux 6.12 Finish NBCON Console Preparations
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON consol...
2024-09-14 06:53
EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes
The EROFS read-only file-system changes have been submitted now for ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. Notable this cycle is EROFS adding support for file-backed mounts...
2024-09-14 06:42
KDE Releases Plasma 6.2 Beta, Early Feature Work Begins For Plasma 6.3
KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3...
2024-09-14 06:30
Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements
Shotcut 24.09 open-source and cross-platform video editor is now available for download with fixes for major new bugs and improvements. Here's what's changed! The post Shotcut 24.09 Video Editor Brings Fixes for Major New Bugs, Improvements appeared fi...
2024-09-13 22:05
KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators
KDE Frameworks 6.6 software suite is now available with support for de-facto standard, cross-desktop thumbnail generators and other changes. Here's what's new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators appea...
2024-09-13 21:28
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform
GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...
2024-09-13 20:36
Haiku R1/beta5 released
It’s always a lovely day when it’s a Haiku release day – and sadly, those don’t come very often. Of course, Haiku’s nightlies tend to be rather solid so an official release isn’t really a must if you want to use Haik...
2024-09-13 19:48
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Tour the New Learn WordPress
The reimagined Learn WordPress experience launched just over a month ago. It introduces Learning Pathways, a new approach to educational content from the Training team. In case you haven’t explored the updated Learn WordPress site yet, take a peek at...
2024-09-13 19:26
Google finally unveils its take on freeform windowing on Android
To empower tablet users to get more done, we’re enhancing freeform windowing, allowing them to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows for optimal multitasking. Today, we’re excited to share that desktop windowing on Android tab...
2024-09-13 18:42
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Decoding OpenAI’s o1 family of large language models
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company,...
2024-09-13 17:56
Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era
As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs...
2024-09-13 16:22