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Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 19:16
Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution...

RISC-V User-Space Pointer Masking Appears Ready For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 19:00
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI...

Linux Patches Aim To Further Lower Intel Sierra Forest Idle Power Use

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 18:45
A set of patches are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list for helping to further lower idle power use for Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors...

RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 18:21
Thanks to Valve's Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release...

Google's Flutter UI Toolkit Forked As Flock

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 18:12
Google's open-source and cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit has been forked by community developers as Flock...

AV1 Still Picture Encoding Merged For Mesa 24.3 Radeon Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 18:00
David Rosca working for AMD has continued to improve their open-source video acceleration support within Mesa. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 is the code within the Gallium3D video acceleration front-end and the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for handling AV1 still picture encode...

KDE Plasma 6.3 To Improve XWayland Window Resizing

Phoronix - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 08:34
KDE developer Vlad Zahorodnii is out with an insightful blog post today on how XWayland window resizing has been enhanced for Plasma 6.3 so that resizing X11 clients will now appear much more polished than the status quo...

Open to options: How to build your modern virtualization strategy

Red Hat News - Tue, 10/29/2024 - 08:00
Virtualization has long been the backbone of IT infrastructure that, at its core, is an exercise in modernisation, efficiency and value. When paired with a hybrid cloud strategy, which sees workloads live on-premise, in the cloud, and in edge environments, it transformed how enterprises manage IT resources. It helps enterprises innovate faster and adapt to increasingly complex IT ecosystems.Right now, we are seeing the virtualization landscape change rapidly, driven by new dynamics and vendor acquisitions. With this, enterprises are experiencing challenges like rising costs and struggling to r

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