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GIMP 3.1.2 Released As First Step Toward GIMP 3.2

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 21:05
GIMP 3.1.2 was just released as the first development version on the road toward GIMP 3.2 stable...

Fair DRM Scheduler Looking Good For Better Fairness & Scheduling Of GPU Clients

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 20:55
Being worked on for a while has been a "Fair" DRM scheduler inspired by Linux's CFS scheduler and aiming for better performance and scheduling behavior between multiple GPU interactive clients sharing GPU resources...

UEFI SBAT Support Coming Together Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 20:40
Support for UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting "SBAT" looks like it could be buttoned up in the mainline kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle...

RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 18:29
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 18:00
Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

IceWM 3.8 Brings New Optimizations & Changes

Phoronix - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 15:00
For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity...

Set Up Incremental Backups with rsync and cron on Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 06/23/2025 - 12:59
The post Set Up Incremental Backups with rsync and cron on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Backups are like insurance; you don’t need them every day, but when disaster strikes, such as accidental file deletion, a

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