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How to Fix Ubuntu Freezes, Crashes or System Hangs

Tecmint - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 13:26
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When your Ubuntu system suddenly freezes, it can be very frustrating, especially if you’re working on something important project. Although

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GNU C Library Lands Workaround After Breaking Various Steam Games, Discord & Other Apps

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 08:43
The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software. A workaround was merged today for Glibc to workaround the problem...

PostgreSQL Merges Initial Support For NUMA Awareness

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 02:50
The PostgreSQL open-source database server has been on an exciting spree of recent changes... IO_uring support was recently merged for PostgreSQL 18 along with AVX-512 acceleration of CRC32 computations for up to a 3x improvement. Merged today to PostgreSQL is initial support for NUMA awareness for helping with the PostgreSQL performance for multi-node/socket servers...

UALink 200G 1.0 Specification Published For Connecting Up To 1,024 Accelerators

Phoronix - Wed, 04/09/2025 - 02:01
UALink as the open standard alternative to NVIDIA NVLink that is backed by Intel, AMD, and other vendors has published the UALink 200G 1.0 specification...

Linux 6.15 Features Deliver A Lot For Intel & AMD, Many Other Changes

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 23:00
The Linux 6.15 merge window ended on Sunday with the release of Linux 6.15-rc1. There is a lot of exciting features and updates that were merged during the two-week merge window. Here is a look at all of the most prominent changes to be found with Linux 6.15.

Blender Is Looking For Help Testing Its Maturing Vulkan Backend

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 22:13
With the recent release of Blender 4.4 it brought many improvements to its Vulkan back-end but is still being treated as experimental. But they hope to make their Vulkan renderer production-ready this year and in order to do that they need more help from the community in testing it...

OpenSSL 3.5 LTS Released With Server-Side QUIC

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 21:24
OpenSSL 3.5 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used library for SSL and TLS protocol handling...

Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 20:18
Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1...

CUPS 2.4.12 Released To End Out The CUPS 2.4 Print Server Series

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 19:05
After the CUPS lead developer left Apple and OpenPrinting taking up CUPS developer after Apple ceased development, CUPS 2.4 eventually materialized. CUPS 2.4 released in 2021 as the culmination of that work to restore the open-source development around this print server while today brings CUPS 2.4.12 for ending out the series and looking toward a future with CUPS 2.5...

Linux Patches Revised For The Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 18:50
One of the patch series that unfortunately weren't finished up in time for the recent Linux v6.15 kernel merge window were the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers. These are the drivers for supporting some of the Lenovo gaming-oriented hardware under Linux and all the more interesting with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld having an official Steam OS option...

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