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systemd Highlights For 2024 From Run0 To Varlink To Advancing systemd-homed

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 22:46
Systemd had another busy year working on many new features from run0 as a sudo alternative to making systemd-homed more robust, increasing Varlink use, systemd-boot continuing to gain more traction, and more...

Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 19:46
A patch series six months in the making and consisting of 24 patches by longtime Intel Linux graphics engineer Ian Romanick was merged on Christmas Eve for Mesa 25.0...

Ruby 3.4 Programming Language Brings "it", Better Performance For YJIT

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 19:09
Ruby 3.4 is out today as yet another annual major feature release for this programming language known for its major updates on Christmas Day...

New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 18:00
While there has been Vulkan Video support within Intel's open-source "ANV" driver since early 2023 and extended over time to handle H.265/HEVC decode, H.264 and H.265 encode, and more, the AV1 decode support has lagged behind until now...

CachyOS Had A Really Great Year Advancing This Performance-Optimized Arch Linux Platform

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 16:00
The CachyOS Linux distribution has really been on fire this year delivering impressive new features and performance optimizations for this Arch Linux derived OS...

How to Use sed for Dynamic Number Replacement in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 13:32
The post How to Use sed for Dynamic Number Replacement in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The sed command, short for Stream Editor, is a powerful text processing tool in Linux, which is widely used for

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How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops

Tecmint - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 12:21
The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The awk command is a powerful tool in Linux for processing and analyzing text files, which is particularly useful when

The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Rust Drama, Russian Kernel Maintainers & Other Top Linux Kernel Happenings Of 2024

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 05:12
With 2024 drawing quickly toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux kernel news of the year ranging from exciting performance optimizations and new features such as QR code error messages over to kernel drama around Russian kernel developers, Bcachefs disturbances, and the contentious growing Rust programming language use within the kernel...

SDL3 Adds Cross-Platform System Tray Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/25/2024 - 02:56
A new feature landing in the SDL3 software/hardware abstraction library today that is commonly used by cross-platform games is a native system tray implementation that works across operating systems...

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