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Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel 2024Q3 Brings Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake Support
Intel has issued their newest quarterly feature release of their FFmpeg Cartwheel, which is their developer staging area of new video acceleration related patches for Intel graphics hardware that they are working to upstream within the widely-used, ope...
2024-10-28 06:25
Sway 1.10 Released With GPU Reset Recovery & Other Wayland Enhancements
Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop...
2024-10-28 00:00
Tiling Shell Update Adds Custom Window Border Colour + More
I’m a fan of the Tiling Shell GNOME Shell extension because it’s both good at what it does, but good at not being one-size-fits-all: users can tile window using a mouse and drop zones, with keyboard shortcuts, or with both – options for everyone....
2024-10-27 22:14
What’s new in POSIX 2024 – XCU
As of the previous release of POSIX, the Austin Group gained more control over the specification, having it be more working group oriented, and they got to work making the POSIX specification more modern. POSIX 2024 is the first release that bears the ...
2024-10-27 21:52
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The MIPS ‘ThinkPad’ and the unreleased Commodore HHC-4
Old Vintage Computing Research, by the incredibly knowledgeable Cameron Kaiser, is one of the best resources on the web about genuinely obscure retrocomputing, often diving quite deep in topics nobody else covers – or even can cover, considering how ...
2024-10-27 21:35
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Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix
Following a busy week of kernel drama stemming from the Russian sanctions impacting Linux maintainers, Linus Torvalds is out with the Linux 6.12-rc5 weekly test candidate...
2024-10-27 19:31
A brief history of Mac firmware
Firmware, software that’s intimately involved with hardware at a low level, has changed radically with each of the different processor architectures used in Macs. ↫ Howard Oakley A quick but still detailed overview of the various approach to Mac fi...
2024-10-27 19:10
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Geckium is an Uncannily Accurate Chrome Theme for Firefox
Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups and hassle of trying to run an old browser on a modern OS? Honestly? You probably don’t, but after checking out what the Geckium project can do, you ...
2024-10-27 17:28
Make Firefox Look Like Classic Google Chrome with Geckium Theme
Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups or hassle involved in trying to run old software on a newer OS? Honestly, you probably don’t – but after checking out what the Geckium project can ...
2024-10-27 17:28
Geckium Turns Modern Firefox into Vintage Google Chrome
Ever feel a pang of a nostalgia for the way web browsers used to look, but don’t fancy the hiccups or hassle involved in trying to run old software on a newer OS? Honestly, you probably don’t – but after checking out what the Geckium project can ...
2024-10-27 17:28
Linux Working On A Counter To Keep Track Of The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot
Sent out in original patch form this past week and already iterated to a second version this Sunday, a new proposal is underway to introduce "hung_task_detect_count" as a convenient means of tracking the number of times hung tasks are detected since bo...
2024-10-27 09:24
Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns
Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. LAM can be useful for virtual machines, sanitizers / profiling / mem...
2024-10-27 07:30
Intel's PCIe Cooling Driver Ready For Linux 6.13 To Reduce Bandwidth When Running Hot
For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width wh...
2024-10-27 07:01
Linux NETFS Patches Help With CIFS Performance, Single Blob Objects
The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support...
2024-10-27 06:27
DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption
In addition to Eric Biggers of Google being busy working on various crypto and hashing performance optimizations, the longtime Linux developer has also been working on "dm-inlinecrypt" for better leveraging inline block device encryption...
2024-10-27 06:15
Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...
2024-10-26 13:55
Leap, Tumbleweed Get Makeovers
Branding for Tumbleweed and Leap 16.0 are moving along with the creation of a visual identity for these two distinct operating system flavors. For two of openSUSE’s most notable Linux distributions, there is an updated logo and new digital wallpaper ...
2024-10-26 10:00
PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More
PeaZip 10 open-source archive manager is now available for download with a revamped GUI engine, compression pre-sets, updates menus, and more. Here's what's new! The post PeaZip 10 Released with Revamped GUI Engine, Compression Presets, and More appear...
2024-10-26 09:53
Initial Intel Xe3 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Code Submitted For Mesa 24.3
With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for...
2024-10-26 09:35
ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue
Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance is...
2024-10-26 09:21