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Gzip 1.14 Released With Faster Decompression On Intel & AMD CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 18:24
Gzip 1.14 released earlier today as the first new release to this widely-used file compression format on Linux systems and other platforms...

New Patches Aim To Improve Unicode Support For The Linux VT Console

Phoronix - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 18:14
While there are efforts underway to effectively kill the Linux virtual terminal "VT" console by punting the functionality off to user-space, it's not dead yet and a new patch series out on Wednesday aims to enhance the modern Unicode handling by the Linux VT...

RADV Driver Now Emulates Ray-Tracing By Default For Older AMD GPUs For A Newer Game

Phoronix - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 17:46
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now exposing its emulated ray-tracing support by default for older AMD Radeon GPUs even without any form of hardware-accelerated ray-tracing in order to run the new Indiana Jones game. It turns out even the emulated RT mode is fast enough to allow various older AMD Radeon graphics cards to be playable with this title...

Gallium Nine Has Been Deprecated, Planned For Removal In Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 17:24
Long before the likes of DXVK for Direct3D APIs implemented atop Vulkan, and even before the Vulkan API was conceived, there's been Gallium Nine as a Direct3D 9 state tracker implementation for Gallium3D. Gallium Nine showed promise in its early days for speeding up D3D9 Windows games running atop Wine on Linux. But with DXVK working out better these days and Gallium Nine no longer being maintained in recent times, it's now deprecated and set for removal later this year...

termbin: A Secure Way to Share Terminal Output Online

Tecmint - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 14:00
The post termbin: A Secure Way to Share Terminal Output Online first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the world of troubleshooting and collaborative debugging, sharing command-line output and error logs is an essential task. Whether you’re

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ONLYOFFICE + LocalAI: AI Document Editing Setup on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 12:53
The post ONLYOFFICE + LocalAI: AI Document Editing Setup on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you want to edit your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations using an AI model locally deployed on your Ubuntu machine,

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Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon Graphics But No Actual Driver Yet

Phoronix - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 08:30
Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.16 merge window in June is the Asahi driver user-space API "UAPI" header. This is the user-space API intended for the Asahi kernel graphics driver for supporting the Apple M-Series graphics hardware under Linux. But due to being written in the Rust programming language and various kernel abstractions not yet ready among other obstacles, only the user-space API header is set to be added and not yet introducing the actual Direct Rendering Manager driver...

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