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FreeBSD In Q4 Saw More Work For AMD Systems, Framework Laptops & PinePhone Pro

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 21:45
The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...

Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 21:24
Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...

AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 19:58
Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE) hardware to deal with HDR video on Linux...

x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 19:34
Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups were shuffled into the tip/tip.git "x86/cpu" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window...

Zink Working On A "Nice Performance Boost" For OpenCL / DaVinci Resolve

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 19:25
Mike Blumenkrantz as the lead developer of Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation and working for Valve as part of their Linux graphics team has been spending much time recently optimizing for OpenCL with the Rusticl Gallium3D driver...

How to Set Up FreeDOS on Linux Using Qemu

Tecmint - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 14:19
The post How to Set Up FreeDOS on Linux Using Qemu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

FreeDOS is a free and open-source DOS-compatible operating system that allows you to run legacy DOS software and games on

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How to Reduce RAM & CPU Usage on Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 12:00
The post How to Reduce RAM & CPU Usage on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux is a powerful and efficient operating system, but high RAM and CPU usage can degrade performance, slow down applications,

The post How to Reduce RAM & CPU Usage on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface

Phoronix - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 02:57
Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...

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