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AerynOS 2025.03 Released Following Rebrand From Serpent OS

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 19:01
AerynOS 2025.03 is now available for this Linux distribution that began life as Serpent OS as a new original distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame...

KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:48
KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME's GDM as a "gold standard" for display managers. While not yet an official project, they have begun working on a new KDE Login Manager for improving the situation...

IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:34
The Linux 6.15 kernel is set to remove support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those server platforms from around two decades ago that used the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture processors. IBM Cell Blades at the time powered a few supercomputers but these IBM QS20 / QS21 / QS22 platforms are no longer relevant and the IBM Linux kernel maintainers no longer even have these platforms available/running. With no apparent users remaining, it's time to say goodbye to the IBM Cell Blades from the mainline kernel...

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released For Linux Users

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:08
Intel engineers today released LPMD 0.0.9, the newest version of their open-source Low Power Mode Daemon for Linux systems to optimize active idle power consumption on Intel Core processors...

Microsoft Brings Two More Features To Hyper-V With Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 17:53
With the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel there are two new features worth mentioning...

Minor VFS File Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 17:12
Among other Linux Virtual File-System (VFS) changes submitted and already merged for Linux 6.15 was a set of minor performance optimizations around VFS file operations...

Install Subsonic to Create Your Personal Media Server on Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 14:02
The post Install Subsonic to Create Your Personal Media Server on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re looking for a powerful and easy-to-use media streaming solution, Subsonic is an excellent choice to access your music

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How to Set Up Auto-Restart for Failed Services on OpenRC

Tecmint - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 12:42
The post How to Set Up Auto-Restart for Failed Services on OpenRC first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

OpenRC is a fast and lightweight init system used by many Linux distributions like Alpine, Gentoo, and Artix. It helps

The post How to Set Up Auto-Restart for Failed Services on OpenRC first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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