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FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512

FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week was enhancing the Bwdif deinterlacing video filter with a 23~28x speed-up over the basic C code path when using AVX-512...

openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase with SELinux by Default

openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC is out with Xfce on Wayland, powered by a new Agama installer, SELinux defaults, and a revamped Zypper experience.

Microsoft promises to eventually make WinUI 'truly open source'

Developer community skeptical following 'long silent stagnation' of the framework and accompanying SDK Microsoft lead software engineer Beth Pan has stated that WinUI, the modern user interface framework for Windows, will be made "truly open source," though no date is yet set because of deep entanglements with proprietary code in the operating system.…

About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Aug 5, 2025 3:58 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
Google is circling down the drain

Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory

In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the contiguous memory allocator to help yield less wasted RAM and greater reliability...

Foxconn says EV sales are so slow it's converting a factory to build AI servers instead

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Aug 5, 2025 12:55 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Cites low demand and overcapacity for electric cars on the same day Tesla gives Elon Musk $29 billion for similar reasons Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant Foxconn has sold its US electric vehicle factory and will use the land to make AI servers instead.…

F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 11:23 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...

Google agrees to pause AI workloads to protect the grid when power demand spikes

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 9:52 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
On hot summer days, air conditioning is rather more important than search summaries Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, the advertising giant announced on Monday.…

Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 8:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...

Big Changes Ahead for MX Linux 25

MX Linux 25 will offer Wayland by default on KDE, separate init system ISOs, Secure Boot support, and discontinue 32-bit ISO images.

NVIDIA Releases Linux Display Driver v580 Beta

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 4, 2025 5:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
NVIDIA drops 580.65 beta driver for Linux with Vulkan crash fixes, improved Wayland support, and new latency-reducing options for VR and gaming.

NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support

Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series...

Understanding Userspace Reboot (Soft Reboot) Operation In Linux

  • ostechnix.com; By Senthil Kumar (Posted by ostechnix on Aug 4, 2025 2:14 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
One of the most interesting and useful features in modern Linux distributions is the userspace reboot or soft reboot operation. Learn what userspace reboot is, its benefits, how it works, how to perform a userspace reboot in Linux.

Customizing KDE Plasma 6 | Beautiful Sweet Violet Theme

In this video, I'm trying to customize the KDE Plasma theme, using KDE Plasma 6 on Endeavor OS. To make it easier for you to follow each step, you can see the Time Stamps I created below.

NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 11:11 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...

Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it

Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready The former "Project Banana" now has a more sober name, albeit one a bit trickier to search for.…

Legendary OpenPrinting architect looking for new role

Canonical lays off one of its old hands – a longstanding FOSS developer – after nearly two decades Till Kamppeter, the lead developer of the OpenPrinting subsystem for Linux, has been laid off by Canonical after 19 years.…

Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Aug 4, 2025 6:37 AM CST)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
Why Fedora for Architects Architects depend on digital tools for every stage of design, from sketching to modelling and documentation. But many popular tools are expensive, closed-source, or limited to specific platforms. Fedora offers a fast, stable, and open environment for professional design work. With a growing ecosystem of free and open source software, architects […]

Immich 1.137 Photo and Video Backup Arrives with Breaking Changes

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 3, 2025 10:23 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Immich 1.137 lands with breaking changes, major bug fixes, new beta timeline improvements, and custom shared link support.

Intel QuickAssist Hit By Second Demotion In Linux 6.17 Due To Lack Of Kernel Benefit

A few days ago the Intel QuickAssist "QAT" accelerators were demoted by FSCRYPT in the Linux 6.17 development code due to being slow and bug prone with AVX-512 showing to be much faster than leveraging the QAT accelerators in this file encryption framework. With the Linux 6.17 crypto subsystem is a second separate demotion to Intel's QAT support for kernel use...

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