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It's Recommended To Avoid Using The Open-Source NVIDIA Driver On Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 01:48
It's recommended to avoid using the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" graphics driver on the current stable Linux 6.3 series as there is a serious bug present that could cause varying issues to your system...

LibreOffice 7.6 Beta Available For This Excellent Open-Source Office Suite

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 01:30
Ahead of the stable release being planned for August, today marks the availability of LibreOffice 7.6 Beta 1 for those wanting to help in testing this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...

NVIDIA 535.54.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Updates, DMA-BUF v4 Wayland Protocol

Phoronix - Wed, 06/14/2023 - 23:05
Following last month's NVIDIA 535 Linux driver beta that was launched at the end of May, NVIDIA has now released the 535.54.03 Linux driver as the first stable R535 driver in this new series...

Linux x86 Boot Process Trying To Cleanup "Hay-Wire Circuits, Duct Tape & Super Glue"

Phoronix - Wed, 06/14/2023 - 18:40
Thomas Gleixner of Linutronix, which was acquired by Intel last year, and his team are working on cleaning up the Linux x86/x86_64 boot process. A set of 17 patches that touch the early Linux kernel initialization code and other tree-wide changes have now been posted for discussion...

WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore & Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 06/14/2023 - 18:20
Microsoft has published the latest release of their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) implementation for running Linux distributions within the confines of Windows. With the WSL 1.3.10 update there is now experimental memory reclaim support and other changes...

Oracle's GraalVM Native Image Now Defaults To x86-64-v3, IGV Open-Sourced

Phoronix - Wed, 06/14/2023 - 18:10
Oracle has published the latest community edition releases of GraalVM targeting JDK17 and JDK20. GraalVM also continues to support a variety of other languages beyond Java as well...

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