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CentOS Stream 10 Starting To Get Underway, More Activity In 2024

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 19:39
Some Fedora Enterprise Linux Next (ELN) plans were shared on Friday with the process of launching CentOS Stream 10 getting underway that will ultimately form the basis of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10...

Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 19:14
As a follow-up to yesterday's article about the believed fix for the Nouveau use-after-free bug plaguing Linux 6.3 users of this open-source NVIDIA driver, the fix has now been merged to Linux 6.4 Git and in turn should also be picked up for an upcoming Linux 6.3 point release...

Distrobox 1.5 Released With NVIDIA GPU Containers Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 18:56
Distrobox is the open-source project for quickly and easily firing up other Linux distributions as containers on your desktop. Distrobox is a delight to use if needing to try different Linux distributions on your system or wishing to leverage different distributions for specialized workloads...

Plasma 6.0 Development Continues, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Land

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 18:42
It may be the middle of summer but there are no signs of Plasma 6.0 development efforts slowing down at all with this being another interesting week for KDE development...

Python 3.13 Aiming For More Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 17:59
Python 3.12 isn't even being released until October and Python 3.13 won't be out until H2'2024, but already the developers working on tuning CPython performance are aiming to make more enhancements this next development cycle...

Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 03:58
Mozilla's Firefox 116 web-browser should have experimental PipeWire camera capturing support available for Linux users...

The Nasty Linux 6.3 Nouveau Driver Bug Appears To Have Been Figured Out

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 03:45
As a follow-up to the potentially nasty open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver bug in Linux 6.3, the issue is believed to have been figured out and a patch is pending that appears to address the issue...

GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Performance For Radeon & NVIDIA Gaming On Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 23:06
Similar to prior Wayland vs. X.Org desktop comparison impact on Linux gaming, here is a fresh round of tests looking at the (X)Wayland vs. X.Org GNOME session performance with Ubuntu 23.04 and the latest NVIDIA proprietary and AMD open-source graphics drivers on Linux.

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