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Ubuntu 21.10 Systemd To Finally Ship With Cgroup v2 By Default

Tue, 08/17/2021 - 17:25
Ubuntu developers acknowledge "delaying this for a long time" but for Ubuntu 21.10 they are planning to ship its systemd package with the unified cgroup hierarchy (Cgroups v2) by default...

Git 2.33 Released With New "merge-ort" Merging For 500~9000x Speed-Up

Tue, 08/17/2021 - 08:24
Git 2.33 is out this evening as the latest stable update to this immensely successful open-source distributed revision control system...

AMD Posts Linux Patches In Preparing For DisplayPort 2.0 Radeon GPU Support

Tue, 08/17/2021 - 07:05
The latest feature display work to happen for the AMDGPU kernel driver since the debut of FreeSync HDMI in Linux 5.13 is around DisplayPort 2.0 support and specifically the SST UHBR10 handling...

LLVM Clang 14 Begins Landing Intel AVX-512 FP16 Support

Tue, 08/17/2021 - 02:33
Last month Intel began posting the developer documentation around AVX-512 FP16 support coming with Sapphire Rapids and initially accompanied by GCC compiler patches along with LLVM/Clang. While that GNU Compiler Collection support around AVX-512 FP16 has yet to be merged, the LLVM Clang support for this next iteration of AVX-512 has begun landing...

Tesseract 5.0 OCR Engine Bringing Faster Performance With "Fast Floats"

Tue, 08/17/2021 - 01:58
Tesseract as the leading open-source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that employs neural networks for converting images/scans of text into actual recognized text is nearing its 5.0 release...

Intel's New Brand For High Performance Discrete Graphics: Arc

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 21:23
Intel just announced the new brand they will use for their forthcoming high performance discrete graphics solutions...

Fedora 35 To Support Restarting User Services On Package Upgrades

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 21:00
While Fedora currently allows restarting of system services automatically when upgrading the packages for those services, there hasn't been that capability for user services to automatically restart as part of RPM package upgrades. But now approved for Fedora 35 is that change...

Mediatek MT8167 DRM Driver Support Coming For Linux 5.15

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 19:55
The Mediatek Direct Rendering Manager driver updates slated for Linux 5.15 were sent out this weekend...

Slackware 15.0 Coming Soon With RC1 Released

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:26
Not only did Debian 11 make it out this weekend, but Slackware 15 is finally up to its release candidate phase as the next major installment of this long-running Linux distribution...

Maui 2 Released For Open-Source UI Framework

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:18
The Maui open-source user interface framework and Maui Apps are out with a new release for those interested in this framework and applications that are designed to work well cross-device as well as largely working cross-platform too...

Kdenlive 21.08 Released For KDE's Video Editor

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 18:01
Kdenlive 21.08 is now available as the newest feature upgrade to KDE's non-linear video editor...

Linux 5.14-rc6 Released After Another Good Week

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 08:16
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 5.14-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 5.14 that should go gold around the end of August...

SilverStone TP04 M.2 SSD Cooling

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 02:41
With proper heatsinks becoming all the more important with speedy PCI Express 4.0 NVMe SSDs to avoid thermal throttling, SilverStone has been among the vendors offering after-market aluminum heatsinks designed for M.2 2280 drives. The SilverStone TP04 is a simple but effective aluminum alloy SSD cooling kit for about $17 USD.

Apple M1 PCIe Driver Under Review For The Linux Kernel

Mon, 08/16/2021 - 00:16
While Linux 5.12 saw initial support merged for the Apple M1, it was quite the basic support with more robust support still to come. Besides the graphics support being a large work-in-progress, one of the areas now coming about is the new PCI Express driver that is necessary for supporting more functionality of this driver...

Grep 3.7 Released To Fix "Extreme Performance Degradation"

Sun, 08/15/2021 - 19:00
If you have noticed grep regressing performance-wise in recent releases, you may want to upgrade to GNU Grep 3.7 released this weekend as it fixes a nasty performance regression...

OpenRazer 3.1 Released With Support For More Razer Devices

Sun, 08/15/2021 - 18:24
OpenRazer 3.1 is now available as the newest version of this open-source, third-party solution for enabling Razer devices under Linux...

Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed

Sun, 08/15/2021 - 14:00
Merged to the mainline Linux kernel six years ago was the LightNVM subsystem as part of Linux 4.4 LTS around "Open-Channel SSDs". That LightNVM code is now slated for removal with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

Debian 11 "Bullseye" Released

Sun, 08/15/2021 - 07:15
Debian 11 "Bullseye" has been officially released now after just over two years in development...

Ogre 13 Open-Source Game Engine Released

Sun, 08/15/2021 - 02:21
Besides the very successful Godot game engine and the up and coming O3DE, Ogre continues progressing as another useful open-source game engine. Out this weekend is Ogre 13.0 as the project switches up its versioning scheme...

Reverse Engineering & Bring-Up Of Linux On The Apple Silicon M1 Continues

Sun, 08/15/2021 - 00:06
A new status report has been published by the developers of "Asahi Linux" that are continuing to work on providing Linux support for the Apple Silicon initially with the M1 SoC...

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