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Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus"

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 23:22
Following Canonical deciding to pull in control of the LXD project and LXD maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, the Linux Containers project has announced the forking of LXD as Incus...

Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 22:55
Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts...

Window Maker 0.96 Released For Window Manager Inspired By NeXTSTEP UI

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 22:31
For those that have fond memories of the NeXTSTEP days and in particular its graphical user interface during the pre-Apple times, Window Maker 0.96 was released this weekend for that X11 window manager inspired by the NeXTSTEP GUI...

Sourceware Looking To Expand Services, Diversify Partners

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 21:30
Sourceware.org that provides the open-source hosting for projects like GCC, Cygwin, and more had long been sponsored by Red Hat and a rather opaque organization. Earlier this year SourceWare.org became part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. In addition to now calling the SFC home, they are planning other changes ahead to expand their hosting services, diversifying hardware and software partners, and other changes...

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 Released With Phoenix APU Support, Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 20:46
AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is out this morning as the first update to AMD's official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver since mid-June...

Linux 6.6 Will Be Able To Handle Temperature Reporting When Having More Than 32 DIMMs

Phoronix - Mon, 08/07/2023 - 18:37
The Linux kernel's "dimmtemp" driver allows for reporting memory temperatures with capable memory modules and when exposed by the Intel processor's PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface). Currently though the DIMM temperature driver is hard-coded to only allow reporting up to 32 DIMMs while a change queued for Linux 6.6 will extend that limit...

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