CachyOS Optimizing More Packages With PGO For Up To ~10% Better Performance
The Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system that is known for pursuing aggressive performance while still delivering a nice Linux desktop experience is out with its September 2024 release...
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Linux 6.12 x86 Platform Drivers Brings Improvements For Laptops Plus Intel ELC
The x86 platform driver changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.12 kernel continue to be quite lively with changes for enhancing Linux laptop support along with other Intel platform improvements...
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Linux 6.12 Hardware Monitoring Supports More OneXPlayer Gaming Handhelds
The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers...
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The hardware monitoring 'HWMON' subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers.www.phoronix.com
Intel Panther Lake & Diamond Rapids Model IDs Added For Linux 6.12
Submitted today as the "x86 fixes" for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc1 release this evening is adding two new Intel CPU model numbers...
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Submitted today as the 'x86 fixes' for the Linux kernel ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc1 release this evening is adding two new Intel CPU model numbers.www.phoronix.com
This tutorial explains the basics of using dpkg command with examples in Debian, Ubuntu and its derivatives.LinuxToday
Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC
Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual "All Systems Go" developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how they are looking at Varlink for IPC needs moving forward...
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Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual 'All Systems Go' developer conferencewww.phoronix.com
Among the updates introduced in COSMIC Alpha 2, there’s a new Bluetooth page in Settings to let you connect and manage your Bluetooth devices.LinuxToday
KVM With Linux 6.12 Will Advertise AVX10.1 Support To Guest VMs
The KVM x86/x86_64 changes were merged today as we are nearly done with the Linux 6.12 merge window...
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FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework
Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer...
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Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD oper…www.phoronix.com
FUSE In Linux 6.12 Adds Idmapped Mounts & Writeback Optimization
File-systems in user-space continue to become more robust with the latest FUSE updates merged for Linux 6.12...
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Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols
It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and i…
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LoongArch Adds ACPI BGRT Support & Other Improvements For Linux 6.12
The LoongArch architecture support for these Chinese processors continue seeing better support with the upstream Linux kernel...
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More CXL Additions Arrive For Linux 6.12
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend with the Linux 6.12-rc1 release, merged on Friday were all of the Compute Express Link (CXL) updates for the new kernel...
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KDE Sees Many Crash Fixes & Other Improvements Ahead Of Plasma 6.2
KDE developers remain very busy landing bug and crash fixes ahead of the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop release...
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Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave
Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...
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This guide will walk you through the process of installing VirtualBox on Fedora Linux 41 and older versions.LinuxToday
AMD ROCm 6.2.2 Released To Fix Instinct MI300X Error Recovery Failure
It's been just one week since the release of ROCm 6.2.1 while today ROCm 6.2.2 was released...
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VirtualBox 7.1.2 brings multiple GUI updates, including new window layouts. Unattended installs are now removed cleanly.LinuxToday
The bash uses multiple profiles, also known as shell configuration files, to configure the user’s interactive login or non-login shell.LinuxToday
Here’s our verdict on the finest PDF libraries captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.LinuxToday
Krita 5.2.5 digital painting app brings over 50 bug fixes, optimizing audio playback and transform masks. Here's more on that!LinuxToday
Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops
The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...
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AMD Releases AMD-135M: An Open-Source Small Language Model
AMD today announced "AMD-135M" as their first small language model they are publicly releasing. AMD-135M is open-source with the training code, dataset, and weights all being open-source to help in the development of other SLMs and LLMs...
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AMD today announced 'AMD-135M' as their first small language model they are publicly releasingwww.phoronix.com
In this blog post, we'll explore the causes of the dpkg lock error, the correct solutions to handle dpkg lock issue in Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.LinuxToday
DXVK 2.4.1, a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11, brings dynamic memory sizing for better performance in various game launchers.LinuxToday
Early Linux 6.12 Kernel Benchmarks Showing Some Nice Gains On AMD Zen 5
With the Linux 6.12 merge window wrapping up this weekend and the bulk of the new feature merges now in the tree, I've begun running some Linux 6.12 benchmarks. Here is an initial look at Linux 6.10 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 Git on an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop...
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It’s a no-brainer to start and stop monitor mode in Linux when you know what command to use.LinuxToday
AmpereOne CPPC CPUFreq Schedutil vs. Performance Governor Benchmarks
Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-core A192-32X processor, I carried out some CPPC CPUFreq schedutil vs. performance governor benchmarks for curiosity and refere…
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Similar to the ACPI CPUFreq and AMD/Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver and scaling governor benchmarks and power efficiency comparisons I routinely do on Phoronix, when recently having the Supermicro AmpereOne server in the lab with the 192-c…www.phoronix.com
The latest fwupd 1.9.25 firmware update daemon for Linux brings bug fixes and adds newly supported devices.LinuxToday
Intel's Open PGL v0.7 Delivers New Experimental Features
Intel software engineers have released version 0.7 of Open PGL, their open-source Path Guiding Library (PGL) that can be used by 3D renderers to enjoy state-of-the-art path guiding methods for better sampling quality and efficiency...
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CouchDB Update Brings QuickJS Engine Option - 4~5x Faster Than SpiderMonkey
Apache CouchDB 3.4.1 was released today after the developers decided at the last minute before releasing CouchDB 3.4 to drop automatic upgrading of password hashes... Thus CouchDB 3.4.1 is out as the big "CouchDB 3.4" release. The CouchDB 3.4 series brings a number of performance improvements, QuickJS as an alternative to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and other…
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Sound Open Firmware 2.11 Adds AMD ACP 7.0 Strix Point & Intel Panther Lake Support
Sound Open Firmware 2.11 is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware infrastructure and SDK project backed by Intel, AMD, and other IHVs/ISVs. With SOF 2.11 comes support for new hardware from both AMD and Intel...
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Upstream Linux 6.12 Makes It Easier To Build A Debug Kernel For Arch Linux
The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new "make pacman-pkg" target. With Linux 6.12 new additions to the Kbuild code make it easy to also produce a debug kernel build for Arch Linux systems...
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The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel introduced the ability to easily produce a Pacman kernel package for Arch Linux with the new 'make pacman-pkg' targetwww.phoronix.com
Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12
Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. However, at the last minute these asynchronous device shutdown patches were reverted so that they can be reworked and hopefully land for the Linux v6.13 kernel in the new year...
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Blumenkrantz Seeks Clear Policy How Wayland Protocol Changes Can Be Rejected
As part of his new hope for helping to accelerate Wayland protocol development, Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve proposed an "experimental" protocol development area within Wayland-Protocols. He's also laid out a proposal for seeking to solidify the means by which suggested protocol changes can be rejected...
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As part of his new hope for helping to accelerate Wayland protocol development, Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve proposed an 'experimental' protocol development area within Wayland-Protocolswww.phoronix.com
Hyprland is a bleeding edge window manager for Wayland-based Linux distros. Learn how to create your own tiling desktop with Hyprland today.LinuxToday
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Tor Project & privacy-focused Tails Linux distro join forces to boost global internet freedom and enhance online privacy.LinuxToday
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