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Power Profiles Daemon 0.30 Preps Support for Linux 6.14  OMG! Ubuntu!

Get Windows on Linux in 10 Minutes With These 2 Commands  MSN

Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code...

Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements. Neat Video 6 continues to support Linux natively when it comes to DaVinci Resolve usage as well as various OFX hosts like Natron / Flame / Mistika / Fusion Studio / Nuke. As they also updated their NeatBench benchmark, I was curious to see how the performance of Neat Video 6 is for the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/5090 Performance With Neat Video 6 On Linux  Phoronix

Pi-Hole v6 Has Arrived: Here’s What’s New  How-To Geek

The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues... Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages within the Linux kernel kernel. Hellwig has been critical of Rust code for the Linux kernel and its long-term maintainability. Today he's out with another mailing list post where he notes that Linus Torvalds mentioned in private he would override maintainer vetoes on Rust code within the kernel...

For those interested in WebAssembly for the "run anywhere" prospects and container-like secure execution, Wasmer remains one of the leading WASM runtime options. Wasmer 6.0 Alpha 1 is out today as the latest to further along this quest...

Wasmer 6.0 Wires Up Support For Multiple Heterogeneous Backends  Phoronix

How to format USB drives on Linux, MacOS, and Windows  ZDNet

GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin  The Register

OCCT is coming to Linux, Steam and Steam Deck  KitGuru

For those that typically wait for the first point release before moving to a new software version, KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is out today with a few dozen fixes for the week since the Plasma 6.3 debut...

Who needs Windows 11? FreeXP is a modern version of Microsoft’s greatest OS, powered by Debian Linux  BetaNews

Get Windows on Linux in 10 Minutes With These 2 Commands  How-To Geek

OCCT for stress-testing comes to Linux and Steam Deck, with a Steam release planned  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement "HWE" stacks shipped as part of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) point releases. This would provide more comprehensive coverage of newer Intel driver components with future Ubuntu LTS point releases to benefit both the integrated and discrete graphics...

Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates  Phoronix

Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers The Gift Of Linux  Hackaday

One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production readiness with Zen 6. In turn, AMD openSIL should allow easier/better Coreboot support. One of the development milestone release targets did slip but they remain working on preparing AMD openSIL releases for Phoenix client and Turin server hardware...