FreeBSD In Q4 Saw More Work For AMD Systems, Framework Laptops & PinePhone Pro
The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024... phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2…
The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ability to rearrange them using drag and drop and create custom fol...
Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust
Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell... phoronix.com/news/Fish-Shell-4…
Fallen Aces from Trey Powell, Jason Bond and New Blood Interactive looks awesome and now it should be even better. With the Wheels of Steel update there's been a few bits added, overhauled and now it's Steam Deck Verified too.
AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support
Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE) hardware to deal with HDR video on Linux... phoronix.com/news/AMD-GMLIB-Ra…
Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC 'Turin' using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options.
x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM (HIGHMEM64G)
Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups were shuffled into the tip/tip.git "x86/cpu" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15… phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-x…
Valve have done a little adjustment to the display of Steam Daily Deals to show more games. They also now give developers some more stats, and gave us all a bit of an overview.
Titles like this really need to fucking stop. ComicBook are terrible for it, so glad extensions like github.com/iorate/ublacklist exist to block them out of searches.
(It was for Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, which is rated Playable)
With the news that WB have closed up Monolith Productions and other studios, GOG have announced they're speeding up bringing F.E.A.R. to their Preservation Program. Additionally you can grab various games from Monolith cheap right now on GOG.
Seriously tough times in the gaming industry, with even more publishers pulling back and closing studios. Now Warner Bros. have confirmed they've closed multiple studios.
Crowd Supply recently launched Haasoscope Pro, an upgraded version of the original open-source USB oscilloscope introduced in 2018. It features a 2 GHz bandwidth, 12-bit resolution, and a 3.
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Immich 1.127, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, enhances the memories feature, adds manual face tagging, and introduces a star rating search.
For those wondering how the latest AMD Ryzen 9000 'Zen 5' series and Intel Core Ultra Series 2 'Arrow Lake' desktop processors are battling it out on Linux, here are some fresh benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux with the latest software updates as well as th…
The late February update of DietPi v9.11 introduces support for Pi-hole v6 while improving system stability, first-boot automation, and network reliability during initial setup, along with resolving kernel selection issues on Raspberry Pi.
Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib.
Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface
Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system... phoronix.com/news/Git-2.49-rc0…
AMD EPYC Turin Power Profile Selection Impact On Performance & Efficiency
Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options. The AMD P-State driver being used by default now for the EPYC 9005 series processors on Linux 6.12+ and paired with Power Profile option tuning can deliver a nice boost to server energy efficiency with only m… phoronix.com/review/amd-power-…
Last week I published an article looking at the power efficiency of 5th Gen AMD EPYC 'Turin' using the modern AMD P-State driver and the Power Profile options.
Yet Another EU Nerd
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Could anyone that read these give me some feedback ?
This package looks great actually, but I've been burned before on programming books.