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GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49

Wed, 07/02/2025 - 18:33
GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer. There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of the GNOME desktop...

Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability

Wed, 07/02/2025 - 18:20
Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues working on enhancements to Mesa's Zink driver for OpenGL implemented over the Vulkan API. A new merge request is further enhancing OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability by supporting the GL_NV_timeline_semaphore extension...

Linux Patches Posted For Axiado AX3000 SoC Support

Wed, 07/02/2025 - 18:07
The newest Arm SoC seeing Linux kernel patches working their way toward the mainline kernel is the Axiado AX3000 as a security processor designed for cloud data center, network gear, and more...

AMD Preps Some Compute Driver Fixes For Polaris & Hawaii Era GPUs With Linux 6.17

Wed, 07/02/2025 - 04:47
AMD today submitted their initial batch of "new stuff" for queuing into DRM-Next of their kernel graphics/compute driver changes they have prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle opening in a few weeks...

Performance & Power Of The Low-Cost EPYC 4005 "Grado" vs. Original EPYC 7601 Zen 1 Flagship CPU

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 22:00
For those on very long server upgrade cycles, typically just running the hardware until failure or consider buying second-hand servers that are generations old for lower up-front cost, today's unique article is for you with quantifying a first-generation EPYC server compared to today's entry-level EPYC processors in performance and power efficiency. With the fascinating AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" budget-friendly server processors I was curious how well they would stack up against AMD's original flagship EPYC processor, the AMD EPYC 7601 "Naples" processor from the Zen 1 era. Can an entry-level brand new Grado server processor with dual channel DDR5 memory outpace an original EPYC server with twice the core/thread counts and eight channel DDR4 server memory? Yes, with huge gains in performance and power efficiency.

Canonical Decides To Double Down On Their Investment In Java For Ubuntu

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 20:52
Ubuntu maker Canonical has decided to "double down" their investment in OpenJDK Java for Ubuntu Linux...

Gentoo Releases Updated Install Media Based On KDE Plasma 6.3 + Linux 6.12 LTS

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 20:00
The Gentoo Linux project ended the month of June by releasing new install media...

Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:44
The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely used by the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the NVK open-source driver for Vulkan usage...

NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:32
NVIDIA previously warned CUDA users that CUDA 12.x is the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. NVIDIA overnight now officially confirmed that the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta GPU support is going to end in their Linux driver with the upcoming NVIDIA R580 Linux driver series...

Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:17
Over the course of last month on Phoronix were 240 original news articles written by your's truly as well as another 24 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. On top of that last month also marked the 21st birthday of Phoronix.com...

digiKam 8.7 Released With AI Auto-Rotation Tool, OpenCV OpenCL + CUDA Support

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 18:06
The digiKam 8.7 professional photo management software has been released for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source solution for digital photography...

AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 08:27
Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors "NomadicCore" and "Ermo" have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months...

Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel Brings Experimental Panther Lake Support

Tue, 07/01/2025 - 07:24
While Q2 is drawing to an end in the coming hours, Intel software engineers this evening just released the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2025Q1 update that provides all of their latest patches around Intel GPU/video acceleration for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library that have yet to be upstreamed into FFmpeg proper...

Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 23:56
Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive...

The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 22:20
AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these popular downstreams compared to RHEL 10.

KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 20:55
KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support...

AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 19:07
Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into problems if the Linux server has only 2TB of system RAM... But a new patch series was posted today in working to address this problem with the Linux kernel for high-end systems failing to hibernate. A similar issue is that when thawing the system the process can take nearly one hour due to the amount of memory...

It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:46
Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS...

Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:23
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...

Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:12
A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...

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