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Inkscape 1.4 Brings Numerous Enhancements To This Vector Graphics Editor

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 18:25
Inkscape 1.4 released on Sunday as the newest version of this cross-platform, open-source vector graphics editor...

Llamafile 0.8.14 Introduces New CLI Chatbot Interface

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 18:14
Llamafile is the open-source project from Mozilla that allows distributing large language models as a single file that can work across operating systems, run on CPUs or GPUs, and all-around makes it much easier to distribute and run LLMs. This Mozilla Builders project ended out the weekend with a new feature release...

How to Disable Package Updates in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint

Tecmint - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 15:00
The post How to Disable Package Updates in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The Apt tool is an advanced package management system used in Debian-based Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, which allows you to

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How to Install ZRAM to Boost Ubuntu Performance

Tecmint - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 14:27
The post How to Install ZRAM to Boost Ubuntu Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re using Ubuntu and want to improve your system’s performance, especially on machines with limited RAM, ZRAM is a

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Linux 6.12-rc3 Released With Some Late NTFS Driver Enhancements

Phoronix - Mon, 10/14/2024 - 05:50
Linux 6.12-rc3 is out today as expected as the newest weekly release candidate in working Linux 6.12 toward a stable release in November...

Linux 6.13 To Drop Some Old & No Longer Maintained Staging Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:13
With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle...

Improvements To The Ad Experience

Phoronix - Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:00
As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix...

Mesa 24.3 Allows Rusticl On Asahi Gallium3D By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 10/13/2024 - 18:32
Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default, Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list...

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