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The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed - ZDNet

Google News - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 04:47

The best Linux distributions for beginners in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed ZDNet

How to Install Linux on Chromebooks? - Sportskeeda

Google News - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 03:04

How to Install Linux on Chromebooks? Sportskeeda

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 02:12

While Intel typically does a great job with their open-source Linux hardware support with enabling all features under Linux and doing so in a timely manner -- often well in advance of the client and server hardware availability -- an exception in recent years has been around the web cam support for many newer Intel laptops. Since Alder Lake an increasing number of Intel-powered laptops have been relying on a raw MIPI camera sensor connected to the IPU6 IP. Intel has been tightly controlling the intellectual property around IPU6 so in turn their Linux support has consisted of an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But thanks to Linaro and Red Hat, an open-source alternative has been forming...

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux - Phoronix

Google News - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 02:12

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux Phoronix

AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 01:28

While not quite as exciting as yesterday's AMD XDNA driver publishing for Ryzen AI on Linux, a notable patch series out of AMD today on the Linux front is enabling AMD Core Performance Boost controls within their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...

AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver - Phoronix

Google News - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 01:28

AMD Core Performance Boost Patches Posted For P-State Linux Driver Phoronix

Red Hat Updates RHEL Pricing For The Cloud - Now Scales With vCPU Count

Phoronix - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 23:27

Red Hat announced today that beginning April they will be rolling out a new pricing model for Red Hat Enterprise Linux use in the public cloud...

Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons

Phoronix - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 23:13

As part of the renewed efforts around the Servo open-source web engine and making it usable for embedded purposes, the Servo engine has been tacking on a number of new features in recent weeks...

Sway 1.9-rc1 Supports New Wayland Extensions & Better Rendering Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 23:03

Simon Ser just released Sway 1.9-rc1 as the newest test release for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

Flathub now has over one million active users - GamingOnLinux

Google News - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 23:02

Flathub now has over one million active users GamingOnLinux

Uutils 0.0.24 Advances Rust-Written Coreutils Implementation

Phoronix - Fri, 01/26/2024 - 21:46

The uutils project providing a Rust-written Coreutils re-implementation has released v0.0.24 and it passes another 29 GNU test cases as the project nears its 1.0 release...