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Fwupd 1.9.4 Released With Linux Firmware Updating For More Devices

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 18:35
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has just released Fwupd 1.9.4 as the newest version of thus open-source software that goes along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making it easy to deploy new firmware/BIOS updates for systems and countless peripherals under Linux...

GNOME's Sysprof Integrates CPU Scheduler Data

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 17:53
GNOME's Sysprof is a wonderful system-wide profiling tool for helping developers analyze bottlenecks and debug other challenging issues. This system profiler has covered both kernel and user-space but to date has not provided any insight around the CPU scheduler behavior and thus developers have had to resort to other tooling there. But for the GNOME 45 release, Sysprof has integrated CPU scheduler details...

LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 17:41
One nugget of information in the LibreOffice 7.6 release announcement for those who missed it and deserves calling out specifically... Succeeding LibreOffice 7.6 will not be v7.7 or v8.0 but rather v24.2...

7 Best CCleaner Alternatives for Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 17:15
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A common category of software you will find on many Windows PCs are system optimizers and cleaners. One such application is CCleaner, a powerful and

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Intel Releases Updated Version Of Its Open-Source Font For Developers

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 07:00
Intel is well regarded for their vast open-source contributions from being a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other areas like Mesa, GCC/glibc, and other key open-source projects to various niche projects like ConnMan and other smaller software projects. Debuting a few months ago as one of the newest open-source Intel projects catching us by surprise was Intel One Mono as a font designed for developers. Today brings a new version of that font...

NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Broken - What Caused Open-Source Pains For Years

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 04:16
New (Windows) tools have been released that break the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock, the "security" functionality in use since the GeForce GTX 900 days around signed firmware/BIOS handling. This authentication mechanism is what in turn has led to the GeForce GTX 700 series still being the best supported series by the open-source Nouveau driver while the GTX 900 series and later have been crippled to their low boot clock speeds due to PMU/re-clocking restrictions. While Nouveau developers have been working on the GPU System Processor (GSP) approach for RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer to workaround this limitation as NVIDIA's blessed path forward, the NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock has now been broken by Windows modders...

Git 2.42 Released With Less Warnings For SHA-256 Usage

Phoronix - Tue, 08/22/2023 - 02:53
Git 2.42 is out today as the newest feature update for this dominant open-source distributed revision control system...

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