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Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 08:24
Linus Torvalds merged the newest round of fixes to the experimental Bcachefs file-system, but it's left Linux creator Linus Torvalds frustrated and he's presented two choices for the file-system moving forward due to the continued LKML drama...

The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 01:12
The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future...

33 years of Linux - MyBroadband

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 23:44
33 years of Linux  MyBroadband

Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 21:42
It's been a long journey to see good web camera support for Intel Alder Lake and newer designs making use of the IPU6 imaging IP. But with Fedora 41 due for release in the coming weeks, there will finally be good out-of-the-box, open-source support for the IPU6-based web cameras in modern Intel Core laptops across Tigerlake / Alder Lake / Raptor Lake laptops...

Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 20:53
We are not done yet seeing new Arm cores still impacted by the Speculative Store Bypass handling errata. Merged to Linux 6.12 on Friday was adding the speculative SSBS workaround for the Cortex-A715, Neoverse-N3, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 cores...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 18:35
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 is now available for testing as the next major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 18:20
Sam Lantinga released SDL 3.1.3 on Friday as their "stable ABI preview" version ahead of the SDL 3.2.0 stable release. The developer at Valve notes that SDL3 has already been "battle tested by millions of people in DOTA, CS2 and Steam" and they are now gearing up for the SDL 3.2 stable release to get SDL3 out to the masses...

KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 18:11
KDE developers have been putting the finishing touches on the Plasma 6.2 desktop as it prepares to release next week. Plasma 6.2 will be out on Tuesday barring any last minute issues...

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