Linux NewsBudgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements
Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop...
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I tried Fedora Everything, now I have a Linux desktop without any bloat
Despite the name, Everything can come with almost nothing.
Apprise 2.0 Notification Tool Released With Smarter Retries and Async Support
Apprise 2.0 arrives with notification escalation, smarter retries, parallel delivery, native async support, and major internal changes.
AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users
You can now certify the machine you already own and check the public catalog to see what else is validated.
Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today's CXL world for adding additional system memory...
New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14's Second Camera
For those considering Lenovo's recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", one of the lingering missing features under Linux will hopefully soon be addressed: its second web camera...
New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel...
Solus Linux Adopts Formal AI and LLM Contribution Policy
Solus Linux now allows AI-assisted code contributions under strict disclosure, testing, and accountability requirements.
Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
I finally tried this modern Linux file manager, and it's now my new default
superfile is a terminal-based file manager that looks and functions like graphical file managers.
Incus 7.5 Adds OVN Child Networks, Live Instance Moves
Incus 7.5 brings OVN child networks, live instance moves between projects, improved VM support, new metrics, and 11 security fixes.
GDB 18.1 released
Version 18.1 of the GDB interactive debugger has been released. Changes include new commands to manipulate the environment of the subprocess, the ability to save the command history to a file, support for a couple of new targets, several Python API additions, and more. See the NEWS file for the complete list.
virtio-nvgpu Brings Shared NVIDIA GPU Access to Linux KVM Guests
Nestri’s experimental virtio-nvgpu project enables Linux KVM guests to access and share NVIDIA GPUs without traditional PCI passthrough.