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Nearly four years have passed since AMD launched their EPYC Milan-X processors with 3D V-Cache. When recently rearranging some servers in the lab and realizing the four year anniversary was coming up in March, curiosity got the best of me in wondering where the Linux performance and energy efficiency on Milan-X is now with the latest Linux software stack compared to the numbers when Milan-X launched back in March 2022.
The company has quietly funded FEX-Emu since 2018 as an open source project.
Intel engineer Tim Chen has sent out a second version of the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling patches for the Linux kernel to enhance the CPU performance of modern processors sporting multiple cache domains...
Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan's mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs...
On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, another set of Intel kernel graphics driver updates were merged overnight as a big win for the open-source Intel graphics stack on Linux...
Calibre 8.16 adds AI book discussions, new recommendation tools, and support for local LM Studio models in a feature-packed update.
Mental Math tests your arithmetic skills without tracking your every move.
While NTFSPLUS continues to be developed as a new and modern NTFS open-source driver for Linux systems, at the moment NTFS3 from Paragon Software remains the most capable NTFS file-system driver within the mainline kernel. For the Linux 6.19 merge window a variety of fixes have landed for this driver...
The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order...
Calibre 8.16 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with various new AI features and several bug fixes. Here's what's new!
Firefox looks decent enough on Ubuntu, right? But it doesn’t look very colourful by default, which is where add-ons and themes come in — one I was tipped to recently is certainly eye-catching. And it’s not a theme-theme. Ambient theme by Site Colour is an open-source Firefox add-on that dynamically re-colours the tab bar and toolbar based on the dominant colour from the web page being viewed. If you’ve tried Vivaldi web browser you may have noticed it does something similar. When you switch between different tabs… the colour changes. The add-on’s settings allow you to add sits to exclude […]
Firefox looks decent enough on Ubuntu, right? But it doesn’t look very colourful by default, which is why many of us turn to add-ons and themes to — one I was tipped to recently is certainly eye-catching. And it’s not a theme-theme. Ambient theme by Site Colour is an open-source Firefox add-on that dynamically re-colours the tab bar and toolbar based on the dominant colour from the web page being viewed. If you’ve tried Vivaldi web browser you may have noticed it does something similar. When you switch between different tabs… the colour changes. The add-on’s settings allow you to […]
Linus Torvalds shares stories and views about Linux in a detailed conversation with YouTube host Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips.
The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator "accel" drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators...
As Europe talks up “EuroLinux” and digital sovereignty, Turkey’s Pardus has already spent two decades quietly running in its public sector. The post Turkey’s Pardus Shows What an EU Linux Could Be — If Brussels Really Means It appeared first on FOSS Force.
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