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Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn

The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...

DTI Adds i.MX 8M-Based Computing Modules to Embedded Portfolio

Diamond Technologies, Inc. has launched a new line of Embedded Computing Modules based on NXP’s i.MX 8M series processors. These compact, high-performance modules are designed for energy-efficient embedded computing across a wide range of industrial and OEM applications. DTI’s i.MX 8M-based modules support diverse use cases including edge processing, automation, vision, and general-purpose embedded systems. […]

Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches

Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...

Deep dive into sosreport: understanding the data pack layout in Fedora & RHEL

This article will describe the content and structure of the sosreport output. The aim is to improve its usefullness through a better understanding of its contents. ???? What is sosreport? sosreport is a powerful command-line utility available on Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and other RHEL-based systems to collect a comprehensive snapshot of […]

PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jun 25, 2025 7:12 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...

AVX-512's Enormous Advantage On AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jun 25, 2025 2:37 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost effectiveness. Among the many advantages to these budget-friendly EPYC processors is having AVX-512 support with a full 512-bit data path compared to the Xeon 6300 series only having AVX2. For providing more insight into the AVX-512 performance impact with the AMD EPYC 4005 series, here are some enabled/disabled comparison benchmarks and how they are positioned relative to the Xeon 6369P server processor.

CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jun 25, 2025 1:06 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview
Learning from the lessons of the past interview Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI-generated code for fear of missing out (FOMO) are starting to slow down and be more considered.…

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...

Tiling terminal multiplexers for the console connoisseur

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jun 25, 2025 4:46 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Split your shell for fun and profit – even over remote connections All the fun of a tiling window manager right on the console, without needing a GUI at all. What's not to like?…

Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space

Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...

From Windows to Freedom: How Zorin OS 18 Makes Migrating to Linux Seamless

In this article, we’ll explore how Zorin OS 18 bridges the gap between Windows and Linux, making the switch not only possible but pleasant.

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.

Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jun 24, 2025 7:37 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law.…

mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jun 24, 2025 6:06 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...

LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jun 24, 2025 3:03 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies One of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.…

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...

Banana Pi Puts RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU into Embedded Platform with Jetson-Like Form Factor

Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU. Designed for applications such as smart cameras, industrial vision, and embedded AI systems, the BPI-AI2N combines a compact SoM with a versatile carrier board. The BPI-AI2N Core is a 260-pin SO-DIMM module measuring 45 by 69.6 millimeters. […]

Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API

Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (ESR) version...

System insights with command-line tools: free and vmstat

In this fifth article of the “System insights with command-line tools” series we explore free and vmstat, two small utilities that reveal a surprising amount about your Linux system’s health. free gives you an instant snapshot of how RAM and swap are being used. vmstat (the virtual memory statistics reporter) reports a real-time view of […]

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