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Firefox 142 Now Available - Allows Browser Extensions/Add-Ons To Use AI LLMs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:36

The Firefox 142.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement due out on Tuesday. Firefox 142 isn't bringing many notable changes but one is likely to cause some contention around Firefox Extensions...

How much RAM does your Linux PC really need in 2025? - ZDNET

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:30

How much RAM does your Linux PC really need in 2025? ZDNET

Linux Kernel Netfilter Vulnerability Enables Local Privilege Escalation - cyberpress.org

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:13

Linux Kernel Netfilter Vulnerability Enables Local Privilege Escalation cyberpress.org

GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:12

Merged today to Mutter ahead of next month's GNOME 49 release is an important improvement for those making use of Variable Rate Refresh (VRR)...

Linux Kernel Netfilter Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation - GBHackers News

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:07

Linux Kernel Netfilter Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation GBHackers News

These Are the 7 Oldest Linux Distros Still Being Developed - Yahoo! Tech

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 20:30

These Are the 7 Oldest Linux Distros Still Being Developed Yahoo! Tech

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 20:17

It's been 15 years already since the Illumos project was formed as based on the OpenSolaris codebase after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and closing down OpenSolaris. Illumos Cafe is a new effort akin to BSD Cafe aiming to be a resource and helping to reinvigorate interest in Illumos-based platforms...

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 20:17

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms Phoronix

Lightweight Zephix v8 Linux OS focuses on portability and efficiency - BetaNews

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:51

Lightweight Zephix v8 Linux OS focuses on portability and efficiency BetaNews

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:22

The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:22

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU Phoronix

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 Fixes PyTorch For Battlemage GPUs, Adds BMG-G31 + WCL

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:14

Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux...