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Linux 6.3-rc7 Released - Hoping For A Calm Week Ahead

Phoronix - Mon, 04/17/2023 - 06:54
Linux 6.3-rc7 was just released and if the next week remains calm, it would mean that Linux 6.3 is shipping next weekend...

AMD Squeezes In AMDGPU Fixes, FPO/FAMS Display Power Savings For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 21:30
While we are basically past the cut-off of new feature material to into DRM-Next that wants to be part of the upcoming Linux 6.4 merge window, this week AMD sent in a fixes-oriented set of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver updates that does include some minor feature updates...

Linux Fix On The Way For A Scheduler Imbalance Overflow Issue

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 21:00
Sent in this morning for Linux 6.3 is a Linux CPU scheduler fix to deal with an imbalancing issue that's been present in the mainline kernel since a scheduler rework that landed back in late 2019...

Microsoft Continues Building Out Its Linux Distribution With More Packages

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 20:24
Microsoft has published its latest CBL-Mariner 2.0.20230407 Linux distribution images this weekend as their in-house open-source OS that is used for a variety of purposes, mostly around Azure infrastructure...

FSF Slams Google Over Dropping JPEG-XL In Chrome

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 18:46
Last October Google engineers decided they would deprecate JPEG-XL support in Chrome over some debated rationale for the move. Even amid the community uproar they went ahead to drop the JPEG-XL support. The Free Software Foundation has finally commented on the matter...

digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 18:33
The digiKam 8.0 open-source professional photo management software has been released. The digiKam 8.0 release brings a host of new features and improvements, including ongoing work of porting over to the Qt6 toolkit...

LXQt 1.3 Released While Qt6 Porting Remains A Work-In-Progress

Phoronix - Sun, 04/16/2023 - 01:29
LXQt 1.3 was just released as the newest version of this lightweight Qt-based desktop environment...

Reworked x86_64 Parallel Boot Support Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 04/15/2023 - 23:44
Being worked on for a while has been Linux kernel patches to speed boot times by allowing the parallel bring-up of CPU cores. There were AMD boot issues since worked around and the patches gone through multiple revisions for helping with Linux kernel boot times. Those patches continue to be improved upon and yesterday saw a reworked patch series posted...

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