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Sovereign Tech Fund Opens Up To Smaller Investments & Updated Criteria

Phoronix - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 21:32
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for those open-source projects seeking funding from this German government initiative...

Open Image Denoise 2.3 Prepares For Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake & Battlemage

Phoronix - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 21:15
Intel's Open Image Denoise open-source software that is a denoising library used by Blender and other applications is out with a new feature release as it prepares for the integrated graphics of upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors as well as nearing the launch of Xe2 / Battlemage discrete graphics...

Linux To Incorporate Intel CPU Hybrid Topology For Determining Vulnerabilities/Mitigations

Phoronix - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 18:55
Within the every increasingly complex world of CPU security mitigations, Intel engineers have submitted Linux kernel patches to begin taking into account the CPU core "hybrid" topology when determining relevant CPU security vulnerabilities and in turn the mitigations to apply...

Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin

Phoronix - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 18:18
Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn's Fedora 41 release...

NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance Thanks To Intel's x86-simd-sort & Google's Highway

Phoronix - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 18:09
NumPy 2.0 was released on Sunday that's been in the making for the past year and their first major release since 2006. While it comes with API/ABI breakage, NumPy 2.0 delivers new features and performance improvements...

Chrome Alternative: Install Chromium on Ubuntu 24.04

Tecmint - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 17:52
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Chromium is an open-source web browser project started by Google, and it’s the base for the popular Chrome browser. While

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The JFS File-System Remains In Sad Shape With The Upstream Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 06/17/2024 - 17:31
While at the start of 2023 was talk among kernel developers for orphaning the JFS file-system at a time that developers began the processes toward removing the ReiserFS file-system driver, the Journaled File-System so far remains within the mainline kernel and not yet officially orphaned...

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