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Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 18:09
A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers...

Proposed Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel's libperf From Python

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 17:58
A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel's libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language...

How to Automatically Restart a Failed Service in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 16:36
The post How to Automatically Restart a Failed Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In a Linux system, services (also called daemons) play a critical role in handling various tasks such as web hosting,

The post How to Automatically Restart a Failed Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Red Hat's Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 08:32
It's been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments...

Lip-Bu Tan Named As Next Intel CEO

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 04:55
Intel announced a short time ago that Lip-Bu Tan has been named as the company's next CEO...

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 23:54
Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils "uutils" software...

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