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Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...

DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:00
While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...

Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 07:15
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...

Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 05:10
At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers

Mon, 05/12/2025 - 04:50
Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...

Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025

Sun, 05/11/2025 - 22:25
A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards. So for your viewing pleasure today is a look at the Arc Graphics B580 and B570 graphics cards on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how the graphics performance have improved with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack since launch.

GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian

Sun, 05/11/2025 - 14:00
This week Google announced all of the accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). There are 1,272 accepted students/projects this year for student developers working on various interesting open-source efforts over the summer...

The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code

Sun, 05/11/2025 - 13:00
Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping "echo", a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications use. But it's old, unmaintained, and likely not actively used...

Intel oneDNN 3.8 Brings More CPU & GPU Performance Optimizations

Sun, 05/11/2025 - 12:00
Intel software engineers released oneDNN 3.8 to end out the week with various new performance optimizations and more...

Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS File-System Performance On Linux 6.15

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 21:00
With the copy-on-write Bcachefs file-system considering its on-disk format now "soft frozen" and nearing the point of potentially removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag on it, a number of Phoronix readers have been requesting some fresh benchmarks of this open-source file-system. For your viewing pleasure today are some fresh benchmarks of Bcachefs and other file-systems atop the Linux 6.15 kernel being released as stable later this month. On the benchmarking block today are Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS in-tree file-systems.

KDE Plasma Will Now Make Sure Your System Doesn't Suspend When Transferring Files

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 18:00
KDE Plasma 6.4 embarked on its soft feature freeze this week. Thus KDE Plasma developers are now predominantly working on bug fixing and UI polishing for this next open-source desktop release...

Linux Lands Fix For Some TLB Flushes Being Inadvertently Skipped

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 17:35
Merged yesterday to Linux 6.15 Git and marked for back-porting to stable kernel series in the coming days is an x86 memory management fix to eliminate a window whereby TLB flushes could be inadvertently skipped...

Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 17:14
The Servo browser engine project has published a status update outlining some of the enhancements made over the past two months for this Rust-based web layout engine. This includes hitting a notable milestone that some websites like Gmail and Google Chat can now render correctly...

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 2 Brings WiFi Fixes, Reproducible ARM64 Kernel Binary Build

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 17:02
The second beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing as an incremental update to this BSD operating system and ahead of the feature-rich FreeBSD 15.0 due out later in 2025...

GNOME Showtime Accepted As Video Player App For GNOME 49

Sat, 05/10/2025 - 08:18
Back in January you may recall the news of GNOME's Showtime app looking to replace Totem as the default video player. That didn't happen in time for GNOME 48 back in March but this week all the formalities were met that Showtime has been cleared to replace the outdated Totem with GNOME 49...

Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 G81SF 4K UHD HDR Monitor

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 23:05
With modern Linux distributions beginning to see good support for HDR displays, if you have been looking to upgrade to a high dynamic range OLED monitor, one of the newest options that recently launched by Samsung is the Odyssey OLED G8 G81SF. I've been testing out the Samsung G81SF the past few weeks and it's been working out well paired with the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 to deliver a beautiful desktop experience and a great experience for Linux gamers with supporting a 240Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 20:50
Introduced at the end of March was Vulkan 1.4.311 with VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for allowing BFloat16 "BF16" operations within SPIR-V shaders with SPV_KHR_bfloat16. This BFloat16 support can be beneficial for Vulkan machine learning / AI workloads and other use cases moving forward. Now the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is the newest wiring up support for VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16...

DeepComputing's DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II For Framework Laptop Launches For $349

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 20:22
The past year we've been looking forward to a RISC-V motherboard option coming to the Framework Laptop 13 via Framework's partnership with DeepComputing. There was early access in late 2024 while this week DeepComputing has formally announced the DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC Mainboard II now available at $349 USD...

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 Released

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 18:40
Out this morning is the Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 release as the newest version of their user-space Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver code that interfaces with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver...

Debian Looks To Better Address Ill-Maintained / Dormant Packages

Fri, 05/09/2025 - 18:23
Newly re-elected Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille posted today to the project's mailing list a few updates about different happenings in the Debian world ahead of the Debian 13 "Trixie" release due out in the coming months and also with DebConf 25 happening this July in Brest, France...

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