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Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week  Phoronix

Back in April was the release of the Amarok 3.0 music player for KDE after a six year hiatus and their first version ported to using the Qt5 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 5. Now in ending out 2024, the Amarok team has released an updated version of this open-source music player that provides initial support for the Qt6 toolkit and KDE Frameworks 6...

Why Arch Isn't My Daily Driver, but I Use It Anyway  How-To Geek

Last weekend a Meta engineer posted Linux kernel patches to make use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction for broadcast TLB invalidation. The Linux kernel can in turn invalidate TLB entries on remote CPUs without needing to send IPIs and without having to wait for remote CPUs to handle those interrupts. Synthetic benchmarks shown in that patch series were very promising and thus I carried out some benchmarking over the holidays of this AMD INVLPGB support for the Linux kernel.

Benchmarking The AMD INVLPGB Linux Kernel Patches For Better Performance  Phoronix

8 Ubuntu Tips and Tricks for First-Time Users  How-To Geek

8 Ubuntu Tips and Tricks for First-Time Users  Review Geek

The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025...

EndeavourOS Neo Provides a Stylish Route to Arch Linux  The New Stack

Thanks to work from Intel engineers, the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle will feature faster USB xHCI DbC performance for debug performance and a few other missing xHCI bits being addressed. Plus there is a fix for a rare 10 year old USB bug report...

12 Days of Tuxmas: Day 5  It's FOSS News

From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS shipped and has been well received across enterprises, Canonical engineers have been focusing more on performance optimizations for Ubuntu, and there has been other interesting changes like their new commitment to always ship the latest upstream Linux kernel version as of Ubuntu release time. Plus they have continued with various GNOME desktop improvements, Ubuntu on servers continues with steady traction, and all-around was a pretty exciting year for the Ubuntu camp...

Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust. Now with most of the Fish Shell code transitioned to Rust, the project put out a blog post this weekend outlining the successes and challenges they have encountered in porting their large C++ codebase to Rust...

Apple DWI Backlight Linux Driver Updated For Various iPhones, iPods & iPads  Phoronix

While Linux 6.13 is introducing basic support for various Apple iPads and iPhones using A-series SoCs, the support is just that: basic. Various feature limitations remain for those dreaming over the prospects of running Linux on older Apple mobile devices. One of various feature limitations remaining are around backlight control for different models and for that there is the Apple DWI backlight driver for Linux that continues to be hacked on...

The x86 fixes pull request was sent out this morning ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel being released later today. Both x86 fixes this week pertain to Intel bits: a self-test issue on upcoming Intel FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) systems and also an issue of Intel TDX confidential computing VM guests potentially leaking decrypted memory within the unrecoverable error handling...

Linux 6.13-rc5 To See Fix For Intel TDX CoCo VMs Potentially Leaking Decrypted Memory  Phoronix

Command Line Email With Mutt: Manage Your Inbox in the Terminal  How-To Geek

Command Line Email With Mutt: Manage Your Inbox in the Terminal  Review Geek