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Miracle-WM 0.3.5 was released this weekend as the newest step forward for this Mir-based window manager / Wayland compositor developed by a Canonical engineer. Miracle-WM continues being polished ahead of the upcoming Fedora Miracle Spin debuting as part of Fedora 41...

OpenJPH v0.16 has been released as the newest version of this open-source implementation of High-Throughput JPEG2000 (HTJK), also known as JPH / JPEG2000 Part 15. With this new release comes faster performance thanks to making use of Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) to complement its existing AVX-512 code...

Hyprland 0.43 is out as the newest version of this independent, very customizable Wayland compositor focused on providing a dynamic tiling experience...

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest  The Register

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 8th, 2024  9to5Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI extends innovation across the hybrid cloud  Help Net Security

The post How to Write Scripts Using Awk Programming Language – Part 13 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

All along from the beginning of the Awk series up to Part 12, we have been writing small Awk commands

The post How to Write Scripts Using Awk Programming Language – Part 13 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The post Nginx: Virtual Hosts, phpMyAdmin, and SSL on Arch Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The previous Arch Linux LEMP article just covered basic stuff, from installing network services (Nginx, PHP, MySQL, and PhpMyAdmin) and

The post Nginx: Virtual Hosts, phpMyAdmin, and SSL on Arch Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

The GNOME 47 release candidate was announced a short time ago in preparing for the stable GNOME 47 stable desktop coming up...

Following recent international travels, Linus Torvalds is back to his usual late Sunday Linux kernel release regiment. Linux 6.11-rc7 was released a few minutes ago as Linux 6.11 approaches the finish line...

GNOME 47 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Public Testing  9to5Linux

While Windows gamers seem mixed over the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, for creator, scientific / HPC, code development, and many other technical computing areas I remain very impressed by the Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) series desktop processors more than one month into constant testing with these Granite Ridge chips. One of the areas I hadn't explored until now but made me curious given the mixed messaging around gaming was how well workstation graphics workloads were performing with the new processors. For this brief weekend article is a look at the workstation graphics performance between the Ryzen 9 9950X and former Ryzen 9 7950X/7950X3D processors.

The work written about earlier this year on New Intel Linux Patches Continue Working To Improve Hybrid CPU Task Placement looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.12 cycle as the patches have now been queued into the power management subsystem's "-next" branch. This latest Intel Core hybrid handling work is particularly focused on hybrid P/E-core processors without SMT / Hyper Threading, such as found with the upcoming Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processors...

OpenBMC as the Linux Foundation project backed by vendors like Intel / Microsoft / Google / Meta for an open-source BMC firmware stack continues to be a growing success. This alternative to long-used proprietary BMC software stacks continues to grow in popularity with AMD now using it on their reference motherboards and Supermicro being another notable user with some of their server platforms. Not entirely new but been meaning to write about it and NVIDIA talked more openly about it this week: NVIDIA is also a big supporter and user of OpenBMC for their high-end AI/HPC servers and BlueField DPU hardware...

Even NVIDIA Has Jumped Big On The Open-Source OpenBMC Train  Phoronix

While RISC-V processors don't need to worry about Meltdown and Spectre or have any other severe CPU vulnerabilities at the moment, with the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel the RISC-V code is set to enable the generic CPU vulnerabilities support...

Merged three years ago in Linux 5.12 was IDMAPPED mounts for new use-cases from containers to systemd-homed. IDMAPPED mounts allow for different mounts to expose the same file or directory with different ownership such as for sharing files between multiple users or multiple systems. With time all of the major Linux file-systems have seen support added for IDMAPPED mounts while for Linux 6.12 support is on the way for FUSE file-systems...

FUSE Adding IDMAPPED Mounts Support In Linux 6.12  Phoronix

The adaptable Cicada3301 ransomware attacks Windows and Linux PCs  hi-Tech.ua

While KDE developers this weekend are busy attending Akademy 2024 as their annual developer conference taking place in Würzburg, Germany, prior to that there were a few last minute features merged for the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop...