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Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver
Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...
2025-02-03 13:20
Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting
Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all tho...
2025-02-03 13:00
Faux Bus Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Better Deal With Simple Devices
Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is proposing "Faux Bus" as a new "fake" bus solution for simple devices...
2025-02-03 11:20
GTK announces X11 deprecation, new Android backend, and much more
Since a number of GTK developer came together at FOSDEM, the project figured now was as good a time as any to give an update on what’s coming in GTK. First, GTK is implementing some hard cut-offs for old platforms – Windows 10 and macOS 10.15 are n...
2025-02-03 11:16
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Run Linux inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator
You might expect PDF files to only be comprised of static documents, but surprisingly, the PDF file format supports Javascript with its own separate standard library. Modern browsers (Chromium, Firefox) implement this as part of their PDF engines. Howe...
2025-02-03 10:49
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The GNU Guix System
GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems. It is designed to give users more control over their general-purpose and specialized computing environments, and make these easier to reproduce over time and deploy to one or many devices. ↫ GNU Gu...
2025-02-03 10:42
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Firefox 135 Published With Safeguards To Prevent Overwhelming The Back History
Mozilla Firefox 135 release binaries are now available for those wanting to grab the latest browser release right away...
2025-02-03 10:32
How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph
Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’...
2025-02-03 10:32
Red Hat Hiring To Continue Advancing The Linux Desktop In 2025
Christian Schaller as Red Hat's Director of Software Engineering outlined in a blog post today some of the areas they will be focusing on this year with Fedora Workstation development. Additionally, they will be hiring at least two more Linux desktop e...
2025-02-03 10:00
Review: Solver can code that for you
In the area of programming automation, sometimes it’s better to fix a software problem by first analyzing the whole repository rather than guessing about what files are relevant to the problem. That’s particularly relevant when you are managing yo...
2025-02-03 09:00
Solver can code that for you
In the area of programming automation, sometimes it’s better to fix a software problem by first analyzing the whole repository rather than guessing about what files are relevant to the problem. That’s particularly relevant when you are managing yo...
2025-02-03 09:00
Tetragon: Extending eBPF and Cilium to runtime security
If you’re responsible for security, you’d better be good at context switching. Enterprise infrastructure has never been more distributed, and the software stack has never had more moving parts. The average application today has more than 150 depe...
2025-02-03 09:00
The DeepSeek lesson
During the past two weeks, DeepSeek unraveled Silicon Valley’s comfortable narrative about generative artificial intelligence by introducing dramatically more efficient ways to scale large language models (LLMs). Without billions in venture capital ...
2025-02-03 09:00
FreeBSD Working On S0ix Sleep State Support For Newer Laptops
FreeBSD is working on S0ix standby power state support for better handling modern Intel and AMD laptops running this popular BSD operating system...
2025-02-03 08:45
Fwupd 2.0.5 Brings Support For More ELAN Fingerprint Readers & Fixes
Fwupd 2.0.5 is out today as the newest update to this open-source solution for system and peripheral/device firmware updating under Linux...
2025-02-03 08:33
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 Adds NXP iMX95 Support, Zephyr RTOS For AMD ACP 6.0
Sound Open Firmware 2.12 is now available to succeed the SOF 2.11 release from last September. Sound Open Firmware as a reminder is an open-source audio DSP firmware solution and related SDK/tooling. SOF started out as an open-source Intel project and ...
2025-02-03 06:50
Intel NPU Driver 1.13 Released For Core Ultra Linux Systems
Intel on Friday released an updated user-space driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found with Core Ultra SoCs. This user-space driver code works with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver for opening up the Intel NPU for helping speed-up AI work...
2025-02-03 06:36
Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Adaptive Performance Tuning & Monitoring
Red Hat engineers have released Tuned 2.25 as the newest version of their alternative to power-profiles-daemon and similar for adaptive performance tuning and monitoring. Tuned ships with various profiles and different capabilities for tuning Linux sys...
2025-02-03 06:26
Turbostat Preps For Intel Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake
Yesterday just prior to the Linux 6.14-rc1 release were some last minute changes to the Turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree...
2025-02-03 06:20
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 2nd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for February 2nd, 2025, brings news about Mozilla Thunderbird 134, Linux kernel 6.14 RC, NVIDIA 570 beta, Nitrux 3.9, GParted 1.7, CachyOS release for February 2025, KaOS 2025.01, GCompris 25.0, ParrotOS 6.3, System76’s M...
2025-02-03 03:12