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VTE-Based Linux Terminals Now Support A Nice Feature Led By Windows Terminal

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 19:03
VTE-based terminals on Linux like Ptyxis are now seeing support introduced to better display progress state for long-running processes with a more visually pleasing progress bar. Microsoft's Windows Terminal has already supported this feature while now with systemd beginning to support using these Operating System Command escape sequences, Linux terminal support is on the rise...

SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 18:45
Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO_uring functionality...

Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Image Compression Going Back To Tigerlake

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 18:37
Merged for Mesa 25.0 yesterday to the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan Linux driver is enabling more storage compression on Tigerlake graphics hardware and newer...

How to Install FrankenPHP App Server in Ubuntu 24.04

Tecmint - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 14:57
The post How to Install FrankenPHP App Server in Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

FrankenPHP is a modern application server for PHP that enhances the performance and capabilities of PHP applications. It is built

The post How to Install FrankenPHP App Server in Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD ROCm 6.3 Tags Begin Appearing On GitHub

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 09:50
Last week ROCm 6.3 was announced on the AMD Community Blog with a set of nice enhancements to this open-source GPU compute stack. While some good additions, when the announcement went live ROCm 6.2 software was still showing up as the latest and the open-source code via GitHub wasn't yet reflecting ROCm 6.3... That changed today...

Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 03:37
A new feature proposal seeks to improve the Fedora Linux experience when running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11...

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