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Following today's article exploring the performance benefits of Intel Flexible Return and Event Delivery "FRED" with Panther Lake and also pointing out the rather obscure nature of FRED being disabled-by-default, an Intel Linux kernel engineer posted a patch to now enable FRED by default for better performance...
At Amsterdam's SecurityCon Europe, the Linux Foundation's OpenSSF adds new members and showcases progress on SLSA, Gemara, and AI security. The post OpenSSF Welcomes New Members as SLSA, Gemara, and AI Security Efforts Mature appeared first on FOSS Force.
Qt 6.11 introduces the Qt Canvas Painter for 2D rendering, the Task Tree module, and enhancements to graphs and 3D rendering.
A fun Linux crossword puzzle featuring systemd ctl commands like systemctl and journalctl. Perfect for testing and improving your Linux skills.
BPF programs can run in both sleepable and non-sleepable (atomic) contexts. Currently, sleepable BPF programs are not allowed to enter an atomic context. Puranjay Mohan has a new patch set that changes that. The patch set would let BPF programs called in sleepable contexts temporarily acquire locks that cause the programs to transition to an atomic context. BPF maintainer Alexei Starovoitov objected to parts of the implementation, however, so acceptance of the patch depends on whether Mohan is willing and able to straighten it out.
Arch-based Garuda Linux clarifies its position on age verification and addresses concerns regarding systemd userdb and data management.
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Cloudflare's technical blog posts about their hardware and software efforts are always a treat to read. Their latest fascinating technical content is on their newest "Gen 13" server platform based around AMD EPYC Turin where they are now achieving 2x throughput and 50% better performance-per-Watt thanks to these latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors paired with software improvements too...
openSUSE releases Agama 19 installer for Tumbleweed and Slowroll with a major architectural revamp, as well as numerous new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!
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Linus has released 7.0-rc5 for testing. "It looks like things are starting to calm down - rc5 is smaller than the previous rc's this merge window, although it still tracks a bit larger than rc5s historically do."
Firefox 149 open-source web browser is now available for download with Split View, XDG portal file picker support on Linux, new TrustPanel, faster PDF rendering, updated Firefox error pages, and more. Here's what's new!
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Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...
Mozilla Firefox 149 improves PDF performance with hardware acceleration and introduces a new Split View feature for side-by-side browsing.
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