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AMD Starts Enabling Zen 6 "znver6" Compiler Support In GCC
Making for a bit more exciting weekend is that minutes ago AMD has posted their first patch for enabling Zen 6 processor support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for -march=znver6 targeting...
10 fun things you can plug into your Raspberry Piโs USB ports
Save your GPIO connector for something else.
The next Linux Mint, FreeBSD's big upgrade, and more: Linux news roundup
All the Linux excitement you might have missed this week.
9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands
Sure you can search in the Linux terminal. And sure, you don't have to do that if you don't want too. Use a graphical interface for your comfort.
Fastfetch 2.56 Arrives With Improved Config Loading and NUMA Detection
Fastfetch 2.56, the system information tool, enhances config loading, adds NUMA node detection, and broadens hardware and OS support.
Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs
The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olลกรกk is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textures with RDNA4 GPUs...
PeaZip 10.8 File Archiver Boosts RAR and TAR Support
PeaZip 10.8 debuts an archive preview overhaul, upgraded RAR and TAR handling, and improved tools for inspecting items inside archives.
PeaZip 10.8 Open-Source Archive Manager Overhauls Previewing Inside Archives
PeaZip 10.8 open-source archive manager is now available for download with a new image viewer component and various improvements. Hereโs whatโs new!
Tenstorrent Blackhole Support & Other New RISC-V + ARM64 Hardware In Linux 6.19
The set of six branches containing SoC and platform updates/additions for the Linux 6.19 kernel have been merged for enabling a lot of new RISC-V and ARM 64-bit hardware as well as enhancing some existing SoCs/platforms...
FEX 2512 Released With More Improvements For Gaming On ARM64 Linux
FEX 2512 is out toda as the newest monthly update for this software that enables running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for being able to run Windows games on 64-bit ARM Linux devices...
With This New Feature, Proton Has Made it Even Easier to Move Away from Gmail and Google Docs
The missing piece is here. There is no excuse to stick with Big Tech now.
Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port
Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application. Flowblade 2.24 brings a number of refinements while also interesting is their commentary concerning the future with Wayland and GTK4 porting...
Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Released With New Security Features, GCC 15
For anyone still relying on Solaris in production or just nostalgic Solaris users from the grand Sun Microsystems days, Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 was released by Oracle this week as one of the heavier stable release updates in recent memory...
Linux 6.19 Brings Many Driver Core Changes For Rust, Housekeeping CPUs Exposed
Beyond the main set of Rust changes to land in Linux 6.19 earlier this week, as we near the end of the first week of two for the Linux 6.19 merge window... More Rust changes. This time around the driver core updates for the kernel bring a number of Rust changes...