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Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 02:05
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

Phoronix - Wed, 06/25/2025 - 01:45
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...

mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 06/24/2025 - 23:30
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

Phoronix - Tue, 06/24/2025 - 22:15
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.

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