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AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 21:52
Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...

Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 21:44
Firefox 131 is out today with a few improvements worth mentioning for Mozilla's web browser...

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 18:50
For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release under Wayland. This support is also likely to be back-ported for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

Linux 6.13 To Bring Big/Super Pages For The Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver - Better Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 18:25
While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won't be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targeting the Linux 6.13 cycle that in turn will be the first major Linux kernel release of 2025. A nice improvement is on the way for the Raspberry Pi graphics driver...

WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 18:17
Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as the 2D graphics renderer. There are also other graphics improvements and more enhancements to come...

Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 18:07
During the month of September on Phoronix there were 265 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles. Here's a look back at the most exciting content for September...

Busd Taking Shape As A D-Bus Broker Written In Rust

Phoronix - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 17:56
Open-source developer Zeeshan Ali Khan presented at last week's systemd "All Systems Go" developer conference on busd as a new D-Bus broker written in the Rust programming language...

How to Create a Deb Package Repository on Sourceforge with Reprepro

Tecmint - Tue, 10/01/2024 - 14:31
The post How to Create a Deb Package Repository on Sourceforge with Reprepro first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Creating a Deb package repository on SourceForge is a great way to distribute your Debian or Ubuntu packages to users

The post How to Create a Deb Package Repository on Sourceforge with Reprepro first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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