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Patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for enabling a new feature called AMD CPPC Performance Priority as a new hardware feature being found with "future AMD processors".... Which given the timing of these patches, almost certainly means the upcoming Zen 6 processors...
Canonical engineer Serkan Uygungelen published a post outlining some of the Intel Xeon CPU features to be supported by the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, some Xeon features already supported by the existing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and some features only partially supported for still not having packaged user-space libraries/support within the Ubuntu archive...
Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the "Common Build Environment" version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source developers and other non-production use. Oracle this week released a new version of Solaris CBE for those wanting this free* version of Solaris...
The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate...
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...
Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...
GNOME 50 Release Candidate (RC) is now available for public testing ahead of the final release on March 18th, 2026. Here’s what’s new!
A new look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a ‘Nova’ redesign for the browser that makes greater use of curves and colour. First reported by tech blogger Sören Hentzschel, who has published a handful of design mockups, Nova gives Firefox a more rounded appearance: tabs and the address bar sport uniform radii, and sit in a segmented island design that matches. Everything neatly nestles. Elements like hover effects, settings pages and parts of the New Tab Page are similarly rounded. If you look closely at the image above you’ll notice new icons that (you guessed […]
From white-hat hackers to casual users: Italy's Parrot OS 7.1 Home Edition flies beyond its security reputation with a surprisingly polished KDE Plasma desktop. The post Parrot OS 7.1: Security Distro’s Surprisingly Good Daily Driver appeared first on FOSS Force.
Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release...
The Banana Pi R4 is an open-source smart router. You can use it for networking jobs, as you will tell from the specs on the hardware. Keep in mind that this Single Board Computer (SBC) may be small, but it is powerful, especially when dealing with networking over any type of connection. Banana Pi R4 Specs The main specs are: MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880) quad-core Arm Cortex-A73, 1.8GHz processor 4 GB/8 GB DDR4 8 GB eMMC flash 128MB SPI-NAND Flash Micro SD... https://www.linux.org/threads/banana-pi-r4-bpi-r4.60066/
Age verification is the new pandemic.
Age verification is the new pandemic.
Age verification is the new pandemic.
GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop...
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