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Linux 6.6.66 LTS Kernel Released With New Hardware Support & Many Fixes
Linux 6.6.66 was released today alongside other updated Long Term Support (LTS) kernel versions...
2024-12-14 17:15
Some Qualcomm CPUs Left Exposed To Spectre Vulnerabilities On Mainline Linux
Some Qualcomm processors/SoCs on the mainline Linux kernel are left vulnerable to Spectre security issues since Qualcomm hasn't upstreamed patches for properly treating affected CPU cores to their relevant mitigations. But a new patch series from a Goo...
2024-12-14 15:09
Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling Patches Updated For Lunar Lake
As covered last month on Phoronix, Intel has been experimenting with Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) for the Intel P-State driver with a goal of enhancing the power efficiency of Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" processors. Recently a second iteration of that wor...
2024-12-14 09:27
Mesa 25.0 Introduces Standard Library For Driver OpenCL C
An interesting addition to Mesa 25.0 this week is Alyssa Rosenzweig adding a standard library for the driver OpenCL C code, including the initial abbility to support assert() on device and other standard C constructs for the OpenCL C code...
2024-12-14 08:50
NTSYNC Linux Driver Updated With API Design Improvements
After some six months of silence, this past week the NTSYNC LInux kernel driver patches were revived for completing this open-source driver to better match the Windows NT synchronization primitives to help with Wine / Proton (Steam Play) Windows gaming...
2024-12-14 06:36
Qualcomm Preps Cloud AI 200 "AIC200" Accelerator Support
While not as popular as their Snapdragon SoCs, Qualcomm has been offering their Cloud AI line of accelerators for scalable AI inference. The current flagship is the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra as a 150 Watt rated PCIe Gen4 x16 card for up to 870 TOPS I...
2024-12-14 06:22
KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivers Much Better Fractional Scaling, Clipboard Using SQLite
KDE developers continue to be quite busy ahead of the holidays to pack more features into the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop release...
2024-12-14 05:46
“Firefox” ported to Haiku
Haiku is already awash with browsers to choose from, with Falkon (yes, the same one) being the primary choice for most Haiku users, since it offers the best overall experience. We’ve got a new addition to the team, however, as Firefox – in the form...
2024-12-13 22:38
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Google unveils Android XR for headsets and glasses
It was only a matter of time before Google would jump into the virtual/augmented reality fray once again with Android, after their several previous attempts failed to catch on. This time, it’s called Android XR, and it’s aimed at both the big clunk...
2024-12-13 22:21
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Wine 10.0-rc2 Released With 21 Fixes For The Week
Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0-rc1 is now Wine 10.0-rc2 as the next test release in working toward the Wine 10.0 stable debut around mid January...
2024-12-13 20:31
Intel Lands "Round Robin Strict" Driver Optimization For Helping Battlemage/Xe2
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are busy working to further refine the Xe2 graphics performance for Lunar Lake integrated graphics and the newly-launched Battlemage discrete graphics. Landing in Mesa 25.0-devel this Friday afternoon...
2024-12-13 16:26
CentOS Stream 10 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, and DNF 4.20
CentOS Stream 10 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and featuring the GNOME 47 desktop environment. Here's what's new! The post CentOS Stream 10 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, and DNF 4.20 appear...
2024-12-13 16:06
KDE Frameworks 6.9 Released with New Symbolic Icon for Wine, Various Fixes
KDE Frameworks 6.9 is now available with a new symbolic icon for Wine, the ability to convert to and from the CFP franc currency, as well as various bug fixes. Here’s what’s new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.9 Released with New Symbolic Icon for Wine,...
2024-12-13 14:40
OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 Released With Linux 6.12 LTS Support
Following the OpenZFS 2.2.7 stable point release earlier this week that brought Linux 6.12 LTS kernel compatibility along with various fixes, OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 is out today as the latest step toward the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release...
2024-12-13 14:28
Patches Posted For Review Adding COBOL Frontend To GCC Compiler
The COBOL programming language may be 65 years old since its original release but the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in 2025 might finally see upstream support for it...
2024-12-13 12:20
Microsoft introduces Phi-4, an AI model for advanced reasoning tasks
Microsoft has announced Phi-4 — a new AI model with 14 billion parameters — designed for complex reasoning tasks, including mathematics. Phi-4 excels in areas such as STEM question-answering and advanced problem-solving, surpassing similar models ...
2024-12-13 10:38
Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Linux Workstation Graphics Performance
Yesterday I shared the Linux gaming performance and OpenCL / GPU compute performance for the new Intel Arc B580 Battlemage graphics card. Today the focus is a look at how well the Linux workstation graphics performance for Battlemage is looking relativ...
2024-12-13 10:20
The Python AI library hack that didn’t hack Python
Guess what’s both one of the fastest-growing and most popular languages of 2024? (Hint: It’s not Java.) Also in Python this month: A clever hack of a popular Python AI library offers some hard security lessons, a new Python package management tool...
2024-12-13 09:00