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Serpent OS Demonstrates Working Offline Rollbacks With Its Package Manager

Phoronix - Sun, 01/05/2025 - 19:42
Hot off the recent Serpent OS Alpha release and talking up new features for 2025, this original Linux distribution led by open-source developer Ikey Doherty is now demonstrating its offline rollback support with integration around its package management system...

Marvell Begins Working On Linux Support For Their Next-Gen Octeon "CN20K" DPU

Phoronix - Sun, 01/05/2025 - 19:17
For Marvell's line of Octeon line of data processing units (DPUs) and baseband processors, it looks like a new DPU is on the way with the CN20K silicon seeing work on enabling Linux support...

John Knight - SlashGear

Google News - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 21:21
John Knight  SlashGear

Rusticl OpenCL Driver Nearing Cross-Vendor Shared Virtual Memory Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 20:27
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst who continues persevering with the Rusticl Rust-based OpenCL driver for Mesa has an exciting late Christmas present on the way... He's been hacking on Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for Rusticl that works across GPU vendor drivers/hardware...

GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 19:36
There weren't too many changes this week for the GNOME project given the end of year holidays wrapping up and many taking time off. But This Week in GNOME is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting desktop changes that did get made...

LLVM Had Another Exciting Year With More Than 37k Commits, 35.5 Million Lines

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 19:27
LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack...

KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

Phoronix - Sat, 01/04/2025 - 18:57
After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week...

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