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How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up

Tecmint - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 13:16
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If you use a USB drive regularly on your Linux system, you might want it to automatically mount every time

The post How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:36
Mesa 25.0 feature development is now over with the code having been branched from Mesa Git and the Mesa 25.0-rc1 release candidate issued. Mesa 25.0 is to be the next quarterly feature release for these open-source 3D graphics drivers and will hopefully see its stable debut before the end of February. In turn Mesa 25.0 will be found with the likes of Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 for providing the newest open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, including for upcoming AMD RDNA4 graphics...

GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:20
GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...

Intel Decides Against Bringing Falcon Shores To Market, Instead An Internal Test Chip

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 08:29
Intel Co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus announced during their Q4 earnings call this evening that they will not be bringing their "Falcon Shores" AI / HPC chip to market. Falcon Shores was to be their next-gen GPU accelerator to effectively succeed their Gaudi AI chips. Instead Falcon Shores will be used as an internal test vehicle while preparing the hardware/software ecosystem for Jaguar Shores as its successor...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 05:05
Over the past week I have published a number of GeForce RTX 5090 Linux compute benchmarks as well as the GeForce RTX 5080 on Linux. With that early NVIDIA R570 Linux driver build as part of the CUDA 12.8 package I was asked to wait on Linux gaming benchmarks until the proper RTX 50 Linux driver is released. Well, it was released this morning with the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux beta availability and have in turn been pushing the GeForce RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 through a number of Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks.

Bcachefs Lands More Bug Fixes In Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 03:05
Last week saw the big set of Bcachefs updates merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel that included the last anticipated big on-disk format change as well as scalability improvements. It was a particularly big pull after Bcachefs missed out on any changes being upstreamed for Linux 6.13. This week a set of follow-on fixes/improvements have been merged for this experimental copy-on-write file-system...

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