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Intel today formally announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative at the company that began last October and is building up a centralized repository for maximizing performance and software optimizations around Intel hardware...
Canonical has raised the minimum RAM requirement to 6 GB, while Windows 11 still sits at 4 GB. But that's only a number and it doesn't tell the real story.
Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer. With Archinstall 4.0, this Arch Linux OS installer is now using the Textual TUI library rather than the Curses library...
After 12 years leading Ubuntu MATE, its founder says it’s time to hand the reins to new maintainers. The post Martin Wimpress Wants Out at Ubuntu Mate appeared first on FOSS Force.
SystemRescue 13.00 has been released. The SystemRescue distribution is a live boot system-rescue toolkit, based on Arch Linux, for repairing systems in the event of a crash. This release includes the 6.18.20 LTS kernel, updates bcachefs tools and kernel module to 1.37.3, and many upgraded packages. See the step-by-step guide for instructions on performing common operations such as recovering files, creating disk clones, and resetting lost passwords.
For those wanting to make use of Linux GPU compute software under Windows 11 by way of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), AMD's ROCDXG "librocdxg" library is now deemed production-ready for delivering open-source ROCm compatibility with WSL...
Version 4.0.0 of the Rspamd spam-filtering system has been released. Notable new features include HTML fuzzy phishing detection, support for up to eight flags with fuzzy hashes, and more. See the changelog for more on improvements, breaking changes, and bug fixes.
One protocol betrays your entire browsing history. Once you fix it, you'll never feel safe without it again.
Coreboot 26.03 open-source firmware is now available for download with full support for Intel PantherLake SoCs and other changes. Here's what's new!
4MLinux 51.0 distribution is now available for download with improved support for ZX Spectrum and Atari music and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
LibreOffice’s documentation team has updated the Calc guide for 26.2, with clearer explanations, polished examples, and step‑by‑step help for everyday spreadsheet tasks. The post New LibreOffice Calc 26.2 User Guide Now Available appeared first on FOSS Force.
Rust's compiler team has been working on a long-term project to rewrite the trait solver — the part of the compiler that determines which concrete function should be called when a programmer uses a trait method that is implemented for multiple types. The rewrite is intended to simplify future changes to the trait system, fix a handful of tricky soundness bugs, and provide faster compile times. It's also nearly finished, with a relatively small number of remaining blocking bugs.
Rspamd 4.0 open-source spam filtering system introduces the new checkv3 protocol, built-in Fasttext, major backend changes, and more.
You might create new problems instead.
Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support...
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