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VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing
While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month's GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support...
DI.DAY (Digital Independence Day) Starts a Movement to Encourages People to Ditch Big Tech Services
A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to.
Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux
Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel's much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther Lake SoC showed very nice generational gains especially with much better performance-per-Watt and the Intel Arc B390 graphics are also fascinatingly fast while continuing to be backed by open-source drivers. In today's article are more Panther Lake Linux benchmarks on the CPU side in looking at the performance potential when pushing the Core Ultra X7 358H with a higher power budget.
AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"
In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new "GFX1170" target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m...
New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots
A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux...
Calibre 9.2 E-Book Manager Released With ZIP Output Changes
Calibre 9.2 introduces security fixes, ZIP output changes, and multiple bug fixes across the e-book viewer and bookshelf.
How to make a local open source AI chatbot who has access to Fedora documentation
If you followed along with my blog, you’d have a chatbot running on your local Fedora machine. (And if not, no worries as the scripts below implement this chatbot!) Our chatbot talks, and has a refined personality, but does it know anything about the topics we’re interested in? Unless it has been trained on those […]
Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More
Calibre 9.2 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here's what's new!
"DHEI" Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders
Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...
Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend
As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...
GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year
GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week...
Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users
One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...
Review: Libre Computer Solitude AML-S905D3-CC Single Board Computer
The Libre company, found at 'https://libre.computer/', has made a new Single Board Computer (SBC) that has a model number of 'AML-S905D3-CC' and is called 'Solitude'. The Solitude is a new board that has support for a Linux OS. Solitude Specifications The board’s specs are: CPU: Amlogic S905D3 SoC 4 ARM Cortex-A55 @ 2.016GHz GPU: Mali-G31 MP2 2 E Cores NPU: 1+1 Cores DRAM: 4GB LPDDR4 (2GB available for volume orders)... https://www.linux.org/threads/revie...de-aml-s905d3-cc-single-board-computer.59022/
Ardour 9.0 Open-Source DAW Brings Pianoroll Windows, Cue Recording, and More
Ardour 9.0 open-source DAW (digital audio workstation) is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements. Here's what's new!