We take a fresh look at MusicPod and note that the program has seen significant improvements.LinuxToday
Mesa 24.3 Finishes The Years Long Effort To Phase Out The Old GLSL IR Linker
Timothy Arceri with the Valve Linux graphics team has merged the code for Mesa GLSL to convert to NIR at compile-time and in turn dropping the old GLSL IR linker with this being a multi-year effort now wrapped up for Mesa 24.3...
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In this brief tutorial, we will learn how to efficiently search Linux Manual Pages with the 'man -k' command in Linux with an example.LinuxToday
Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost
The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS client and server are on the same host...
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Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux
Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of systems and peripherals. With Fwupd 1.9.25, the supported device list has grown a little bit longer...
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Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number …www.phoronix.com
Mold Linker Decides To Drop DEC Alpha Support: Likely Broken & No Actual Users
The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...
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The latest Wine release, 9.18, brings essential updates and a new Desktop Control applet. Here's more on that!LinuxToday
Learn about the new features of LibreOffice 24.8 which brings considerable update across its base modules.LinuxToday
Valkey 8.0, an open-source in-memory data store, promises superior performance, handling up to 1.2 million queries per second.LinuxToday
Frog-FIFO-V1 Aims To Address Mesa's "Fundamentally Broken" Wayland Code
Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."..
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Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed 'frog-fifo-v1' protocol for Wayland to address the matter of 'FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now.'www.phoronix.com
Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming
While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux support/compatibility information and performance benchmarks. But hopefully by this time next week will be the initial data set...
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While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series 'Lunar Lake' laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Lin…www.phoronix.com
Object–relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages.LinuxToday
In this tutorial, we'll explore the best encryption solutions available for Linux users and the process of creating an encrypted partition.LinuxToday
Learn how to install and use the screen command in Linux to manage multiple shell sessions during an SSH connection, with practical examples.LinuxToday
NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"
While open-source enthusiasts like to criticize NVIDIA for not maintaining upstream, in-tree kernel graphics driver support (though things have been changing there), for other areas of their vast hardware portfolio they are much better upstream Linux kernel citizens and often at the forefront of new driver innovations. One of the leading examples of that…
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While open-source enthusiasts like to criticize NVIDIA for not maintaining upstream, in-tree kernel graphics driver support (though things have been changing there), for other areas of their vast hardware portfolio they are much better upstream Linux…www.phoronix.com
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With only three weeks left before Ubuntu 24.10 hits the streets in a stable form, the beta is here to give us a glimpse of what to expect from the final version.LinuxToday
NVIDIA Publishes Open-Source Linux Driver Code For GPU Virtualization "vGPU" Support
NVIDIA engineers have sent out an exciting set of Linux kernel patches for enabling NVIDIA vGPU software support for virtual GPU support among multiple virtual machines (VMs). In aiming for upstream-focused Linux support, this NVIDIA vGPU support is built around the adapted Nouveau driver with the code previously posted for splitting up the Nouveau/N…
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Intel Launches Xeon 6900P Series "Granite Rapids" Processors
Building off the launch earlier this year of the first Xeon 6 processors with the Xeon 6700E "Sierra Forest" processors, today Intel is lifting the wraps on the much anticipated Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors. Where as Sierra Forest is optimized for power efficiency and core density, the Intel Xeon 6 P-core processors are optimized for per-core performance and have shown some v…
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Building off the launch earlier this year of the first Xeon 6 processors with the Xeon 6700E 'Sierra Forest' processors, today Intel is lifting the wraps on the much anticipated Xeon 6900P 'Granite Rapids' processors.www.phoronix.com
Intel Gaudi 3 Linux Driver Support Expected Next Month
Intel used their Enterprise Tech Tour last week in Oregon to not only provide insight into the new Xeon 6900 "Granite Rapids" server processors (and Xeon 6980P benchmarks) but also to shed more light on their Gaudi 3 AI inference accelerator. The question I was most curious about with Gaudi 3: where's the Linux driver support?..
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Intel used their Enterprise Tech Tour last week in Oregon to not only provide insight into the new Xeon 6900 'Granite Rapids' server processors (and Xeon 6980P benchmarks) but also to shed more light on their Gaudi 3 AI inference acceleratorwww.phoronix.com
Intel Xeon 6980P "Granite Rapids" Linux Benchmarks
With the Intel Xeon 6900P &quoptGranite Rapids" launch today the review embargo has now expired. I began with my Intel Granite Rapids Linux benchmarking a few days ago and have initial benchmarks to share for the flagship Xeon 6980P processors paired with MRDIMM 8800MT/s memory. This is just the beginning of a lot of Granite Rapids benchmarks to come on Phoronix. Compared to the exis…
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With the Intel Xeon 6900P 'Granite Rapids' launch today the review embargo has now expired.www.phoronix.com
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Linux 6.12 Adds A Kernel Stack Usage Histogram To Help With Optimizations
Merged as part of the memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste...
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Merged as part of the memory management 'MM' changes for the Linux 6.12 kernel is a kernel stack usage histogram to help developers in better optimizing the kernel stack sizes and minimizing memory waste.www.phoronix.com
Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12
Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...
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Intel's LPMD "Low Power Mode Daemon" Now Identifies As The "Energy Optimizer"
The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7 release it's now re-identified itself as the "Energy Optimizer" instead...
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If you’re looking for a new GUI frontend, check out these tools.LinuxToday
Dell-WMI-Sysman Linux Driver Being Extended For Alienware Systems
The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...
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Landlock Sandboxing Now Supports More Controls Around Unix Sockets
Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...
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F2FS With Linux 6.12 Converts I/O Paths To Use Folios, Other Improvements
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 merge window...
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In this article we recommend the finest image processing libraries. All free and open source goodness.LinuxToday
Pulsar 1.121, an open-source and cross-platform code editor, enhances CLI, adds Linux and macOS commands, and updates language support.LinuxToday
Gopeed is a free, open-source, and high-speed cross-platform download manager that comes with a beautiful UI built on Golang and Flutter.LinuxToday
Rusty Music Player (RMuP) is a TUI music player. Here's how to install and use it.LinuxToday
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GnuPG is a superb tool though it’s a command line affair. If you’re looking for a GUI frontend for GnuPG, step forward GpgFrontend.LinuxToday
From basic permission assignments to advanced techniques like ACLs, this article will equip you with the knowledge needed to secure your Linux environment.LinuxToday
This Step-by-Step guide will walk you through the steps to perform a Debian Minimal GNOME install using the Netinst ISO.LinuxToday
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