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Following the announcement yesterday that Ubuntu 25.04 will default to the -O3 optimization level with GCC for its Debian package builds, Fedora stakeholders have begun debating the merits of switching to the -O3 optimization level or not instead of the existing -O2 optimization level default...

Ubuntu-based Br OS version 24.10 comes with KDE Plasma 6 and Wayland  Notebookcheck.net

How to format a drive on Linux from the command line  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case...

Linux Lite 7.2 Released with Lite Theme Manager, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

Intel compiler engineer Feng Zou has upstreamed AMX-FP8 support into the LLVM compiler stack. This FP8 extension to the Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is coming with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors alongside other new ISA extensions...

SUSE's Agama Installer Adds QR Code To The Console & Other Improvements  Phoronix

SUSE's Agama OS installer 10 was recently released as the newest feature iteration for this next-gen OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE...

SVT-AV1 2.3 is now available as the newest feature release to this leading open-source AV1 encoder. With SVT-AV1 2.3 there are yet more performance improvements...

One month has passed since the AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 driver release while today has brought the AMDVLK 2024.Q4.1 release with a few new Vulkan API extensions...

Edera Restores Security Benefits for Linux Application Memory Safety with OpenPaX  AiThority

FOSS Weekly #24.44: Fedora 41 Release, Russia in Linux Kernel, System Monitoring and More  It's FOSS

A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workloads running on the GPUs. The motivation isn't clear if there is some GFX11.0.3 security vulnerability, some AMD Linux customer particularly concerned about security on said GPUs, or some other motivation for focusing this latest cleaner shader work on GFX11.0.3 hardware...

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype  Yahoo Singapore News

Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated for Release on April 17th, 2025  9to5Linux

Audacity 3.7 Delivers Bug Fixes, Improves Compatibility with Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

Canonical has announced the formal state of the Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" development. Among other early changes are now defaulting to -O3 compiler optimizations rather than the default -O2 optimization level when building Debian packages...

Audacity 3.7 Open-Source Audio Editor Is Out to Improve Linux Compatibility  9to5Linux

Pre-Orders Open for Pine64’s e-Ink Linux Tablet  OMG! Ubuntu!

You Can Now Order Pine64’s Linux eReader  How-To Geek