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The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is the EPYC 4005 series AM5 server processors that launched last year. On the embedded side is also the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. AMD has now filled the void between with the long-awaited EPYC 8005 series...
As OIN 2.0 changes its funding and governance model, Shane Coughlan steps in as global ambassador to sell the shift to enterprises without alienating free software critics. The post Free Software and Linux Foundation Veteran Named OIN Patent Ambassador appeared first on FOSS Force.
The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors...
OpenZFS 2.4.1 adds Linux 6.19 support, improves FreeBSD compatibility, and delivers dozens of stability and build fixes across platforms.
Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit...
Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year, announced the release of Systing 1.0. Systing is a newer eBPF-tracing tool for Linux complete with AI integration...
Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes...
For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out today with 11 CVEs addressed in taking care of various security-related issues that have been uncovered...
Mozilla Thunderbird 148 open-source email client is now available for download with improved accessibility in various tree views and other changes. Here's what's new!
LibreOffice online is a web-based version of the LibreOffice suite that can be hosted on anybody's infrastructure. This project was put into stasis back in 2022, a move marked by some tension with Collabora, a major LibreOffice developer that has its own online offering. Now, the Document Foundation has announced a new effort to breathe life into this project. We plan to reopen the repository for LibreOffice Online at The Document Foundation for contributions, but provide warnings about the state of the repository until TDF's team agrees that it's safe and usable – while at the same time encourage the community to join in with code, technologies and other contributions that can be used to move forward. Meanwhile, this post from Michael Meeks suggests that the tension around online versions of LibreOffice has not abated.
Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel. It shows album art, artist name and track title alongside an animated waveform visualiser. Unashamedly blingy, but there’s nothing wrong in that. The extension received an update today, which seem a good hook to actually take this off my “to write about” list. V20 adds a compact mode to hide all text; player filtering to add/ignore specific apps; and the option to set fallback album art for players/streams that don’t emit any. Dynamic Music Pill works with any MPRIS-compatible media player. That […]
The Document Foundation has revived LibreOffice Online, resuming development after formally reversing its 2022 decision to freeze the project.
Lutris 0.5.21 introduces support for Valve’s Sniper runtime, adds ShadPS4 and Xenia runners, and improves GPU detection on Linux systems.
It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing...
Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. With Lutris 0.5.21 comes some new runners for executing games in different environments...
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