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SysVinit 3.12 Brings Fixes & Better Documentation For Christmas

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 19:23
For devoted SysVinit users trying to avoid systemd still on Linux systems in 2025, SysVinit 3.12 has been released for the holidays with the latest fixes to this open-source init system...

Flatpak XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 Brings USB Portal & Notification v2 Portal

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 09:19
Debuting as a new development release today was XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 as this portal front-end service for Flatpak sandboxed apps and other desktop containment frameworks. The XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 milestone is exposing new and expanded portal capabilities for dealing with various hardware devices and APIs...

Darktable 5.0 Released With Many UI/UX Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 12/22/2024 - 02:45
In time for editing any end-of-year/holiday photos, Darktable 5.0 is out today as a major update to this open-source RAW photography workflow application...

CachyOS Update Now Uses AutoFDO-Optimized Kernel, Rusticl Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 23:21
The CachyOS December 2024 update is out today as the newest monthly release to this performance-optimized, Arch Linux based operating system...

Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted For Linux Kernel Review

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 22:31
The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...

Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 21:44
The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code...

AdaptiveCpp 24.10 Delivers More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 12/21/2024 - 19:48
AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimizations with this update...

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