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As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!..
GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing
GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...
Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days
This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers...
BeagleBoard Shares Details on Linux-Ready and Wi-Fi 6/BLE BeagleMod Modules
BeagleMod is a series of solder-down modules designed for embedded computing and wireless connectivity. Developed by BeagleBoard.org, the BeagleMod AM62 is a Linux-capable processor, while the BeagleMod CC33 consists of Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Low-Energy modules for Linux-based systems.
Contribute to GNOME Software with DNF5 Test Day
The DNF5 team is working on ironing out bugs around matching the existing functionality of GNOME Software with PackageKit. The DNF and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday,February 10, 2025 to Monday, February 17, 2025.
Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows
A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11...
Pineboards Introduces Modulo Carrier Boards for Raspberry Pi CM5 and CM4
Pineboards has introduced the Modulo4, Modulo5 Basic, and Modulo5 IO PoE+ carrier boards, adapting Raspberry Pi Compute Modules to the Raspberry Pi 5 form factor. These boards maintain compatibility with PCIe HATs, cases, and cooling solutions, with the Modulo5 IO PoE+ adding PoE+ support for network-powered operation.
SysVinit 3.14 Released: Overcomes Three Decade Limitation Of Inittab Line Length
For those continuing to make use of SysVinit as the aging init system that in the Linux world has been largely replaced by systemd, SysVinit 3.14 is out today and overcomes a long-standing limitation around the length of lines within the inittab files...
IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking
It's looking like IO_uring zero-copy receive support should be ready for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle this spring...
NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM
Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...
Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decoding For AMD GPUs On Linux By Default
With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this next iteration of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is finally enabling hardware video acceleration by default for AMD GPUs on Linux...
How to Install Jupyter Notebook with Nginx Proxy on Debian 12
Jupyter is a free and open-source web application for interactive computing and data science. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Jupyter and configure Jupyter Notebook on the Debian 12 server.
RISC-V Based Milk-V Oasis Gets Canceled and Refunds Are Issued to Supporters
The Milk-V Oasis, a highly anticipated RISC-V-based Mini-ITX motherboard, has been officially put on hold. Despite its promising features and bold vision, the project was suspended indefinitely due to development challenges and uncontrollable factors, according to the Milk-V team.
Rsync 3.4 Released Due To Multiple, Significant Security Vulnerabilities
Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems. Rsync is widely-used especially for backing up Linux servers in an incremental manner and unfortunately this v3.4 release isn't some cheery news...
Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14
Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramatic in leveraging this zero-copy path...
How to Use the Apache Web Server to Install and Configure a Website
If you've never deployed a website with the Apache web server, you're about to learn how.
Intel Preps Nice NPU Driver Improvements For Linux 6.14
For those with an Intel Core Ultra system bearing the company's Neural Processing Unit (NPU), some nice driver enhancements are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle.
Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars
Remember humanoid bot ‘Asimo’, which could kick balls and pour beer? It survives as EV software
Honda has announced it has developed an operating system for electric vehicles, using tech it first developed for a humanoid robot named “Asimo”.…
RUBIK Pi 3 Now Available for Ordering at $179 Following Global Launch at CES 2025
Thundercomm has officially launched the RUBIK Pi 3, a Linux-compatible development board powered by the Qualcomm QCS6490 processor, at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. This board is designed for on-device AI, machine learning, and prototyping advanced applications across robotics and smart devices. The RUBIK Pi 3 builds on its predecessor’s capabilities, offering 12 Dense TOPS […]
HipScript Allows NVIDIA CUDA & AMD HIP Code To Run Within Web Browsers
HipScript is a new open-source project that allows for compiling and running AMD HIP and NVIDIA CUDA code within web browsers by leveraging WebAssembly and WebGPU...