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Ubuntu Considers Taking It Easier On Software Updates Over Weekends

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 20:03
Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either...

12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 19:40
The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all these years later. Coming up for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle in 2025 is a fix to benefit Haswell and similarly aged Intel platforms with integrated graphics...

Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 19:25
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance...

ntopng – Web-Based Network Traffic and Security Monitoring Tool

Tecmint - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 15:06
The post ntopng – Web-Based Network Traffic and Security Monitoring Tool first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re a Linux user and want to monitor your network traffic, you’ve probably heard of ntopng, which is a

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How to Make Debian Automatically Update Security Updates

Tecmint - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 13:21
The post How to Make Debian Automatically Update Security Updates first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Keeping your system secure is essential, and Debian makes it easy to stay protected with automatic security updates. In this

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COSMIC Alpha 5 Desktop Brings COSMIC Media Player As Default, VRR Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 06:05
Building off the COSMIC Alpha 4 release from early December, COSMIC Alpha 5 is now available as the newest stepping stone toward the first stable release of this Rust-based open-source desktop developed by System76 for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

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