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VLC 3.0.22: Dark Mode, Game Music, and Smoother Playback
This week’s App of the Week takes a fresh look at VLC 3.0.22, from dark mode on Plasma and Cosmic to niche perks like proper playback of classic Doom and Hexen music files. The post VLC 3.0.22: Dark Mode, Game Music, and Smoother Playback appeared first on FOSS Force.
FSF Announces 2024 Free Software Award Winners
The FSF announces the 2024 Free Software Award winners, honoring major contributions to software freedom from Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory.
FreeBSD 15.0 vs. Ubuntu Linux For AMD EPYC Server Performance
Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it's onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today.
AMD FSR SDK 2.1 Released With FSR Redstone - Windows-Only For Now
AMD FSR SDK 2.1 is now available that includes their "FSR Redstone" machine learning based upscaling tech for gaming..
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Joins Linux Foundation in Major AI Shift
MCP joins the Linux Foundation, creating a unified open standard for building AI tools and agents across platforms.
Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be?
An in-depth look at 'another new Chromium-based web browser" that is "different from the other Chromium-based web browsers".
Find out how your Fedora system really feels (with the linux-mcp-server!)
Generative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables generate AI systems to run commands and use tools to enable live, conversational interaction with systems. Using the new linux-mcp-server, let’s walk through how you can talk with your Fedora system for understanding your system […]
Turbostat Introduces New Cache Statistics, Nova Lake + Wildcat Lake Support
Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features...
Budgie 10.10 Desktop Approved For Fedora 44 Packaging, Fedora Budgie Spin All-Wayland
In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...
Updated Intel LLM-Scaler-Omni Improves ComfyUI Performance For Arc Graphics
The past several months Intel software engineers have been quite busy with LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a Docker-based solution for AI workloads on Intel graphics hardware to ship an optimized vLLM stack and other AI frameworks. Out today is a new LLM-Scaler-Omni release to help enhance ComfyUI performance on Intel hardware...
Linux Fixes A Performance Regression In The Slab Code
A performance fix has been submitted to the Linux kernel for dealing with a regression in the Slab memory allocation code...
Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function
While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19...
The end of the kernel Rust experiment
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust-for-Linux team. (Stay tuned for details in our Maintainers Summit coverage.)
Two New Distros Adopt Enlightenment
MX Moksha and AV Linux 25 join ranks with Bodhi Linux and embrace the Enlightenment desktop.