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openSUSE Leap 16.0 Pre-Alpha Available, GA Next October

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 20:56
While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...

RPM 4.20 Released With Declarative Build System Support, Public Plugin API

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 20:47
RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...

The Speedy Ptyxis Terminal Emulator Available On Ubuntu 24.10

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:59
For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...

Linus Torvalds Asks Kernel Developers To Write Better Git Merge Commit Messages

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:45
Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages...

NVGRACE-GPU VFIO Driver Preparing For NVIDIA Grace Blackwell

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:39
The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now being extended for supporting the forthcoming NVIDIA Grace Blackwell "GB" designs...

Linux Thermal/Power Platform Profile Support Coming For Alienware Systems

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 18:23
Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Linux. This newest effort is introducing the "dell-wmi-awcc" driver for handling functionality found under Windows with the Alienware Command Center...

Learn MySQL: Create, Update, and Delete Data in Database

Tecmint - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 13:31
The post Learn MySQL: Create, Update, and Delete Data in Database first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A database is a structured set of data stored electronically. The concept of a database was known to our ancestors

The post Learn MySQL: Create, Update, and Delete Data in Database first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.12-rc2 Released With Initial Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 10/07/2024 - 06:52
Building off last Sunday's inaugural release candidate of Linux 6.12, Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel a few minutes ago...

More Intel Diamond Rapids Enablement Landing For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 23:51
In addition to Intel's Linux engineers being busy preparing hardware enablement support for next-gen Panther Lake client processors, they are also busy beginning to plumb Linux driver support for next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support as the successor to Xeon 6 Granite Rapids. With Linux 6.12 some new bits are now set to land for Diamond Rapids...

Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 22:34
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser has released Cage v0.2, a Wayland kiosk compositor that runs single, maximized applications...

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