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One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 12:00
One of the several Rust for Linux kernel maintainers has decided to step away from the project. The move is being driven at least in part due to having to deal with increased "nontechnical nonsense" raised around Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel...

Mesa 24.2.1 Released, Mesa 24.1 Series Comes To An End

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 12:00
Mesa 24.2.1 was released today as the first bi-weekly point release to the newly-minted Mesa 24.2 stable series. This also marks the Mesa 24.1 series from last quarter drawing to a close with one last point release...

GNU Screen 5.0 Released With Rewritten Authentication Mechanism

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 09:38
The very useful GNU Screen program for multiplexing terminals between processes is out with a shiny new feature release...

Wireshark 4.4 Released For This Leading Network Protocol Analyzer

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 07:20
Wireshark 4.4 has been released as the newest version of this leading network protocol analyzer. Wireshark 4.4 brings many new and improved features...

TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen 2 Linux Laptop Pairs The AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS With Radeon RX 7600M XT

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 05:08
While AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops have begun appearing with Zen 5 CPU cores, to date the launched laptops have revolved around having either the integrated Radeon 890M RDNA3.5 graphics and/or NVIDIA GeForce discrete graphics. For those wanting a Linux-friendly laptop with Radeon discrete graphics for more gaming and GPU/compute potential, that still leaves the still very powerful Zen 4 laptop options. Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers recently launched the Sirius 16 Gen 2 as a nice workstation/gaming laptop featuring the Ryzen 7 8845HS with Radeon RX 7600M XT discrete graphics.

Microsoft Advances Its Open-Source Font For Developers With "Cascadia Next"

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 03:11
Back in 2019 Microsoft announced Cascadia Code as an open-source font designed for terminals and code editors. This monospaced font they view is great for developers like those using Visual Studio Code. Over the years Microsoft has further improved upon Cascadia Code with subtle revisions while now they are working to roll-out "Cascadia Next" as their next big step forward...

Ubuntu 24.10 Prepares To Employ The Linux 6.11 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 08/29/2024 - 00:55
Thanks to the Canonical decision to commit to shipping the very latest upstream Linux kernels in Ubuntu releases moving forward, Ubuntu 24.10 shipping in October will have the Linux 6.11 kernel that is debuting as stable in mid-September. Canonical's kernel engineers are currently preparing for rolling out that new kernel version in the Oracular Oriole archive...

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