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Arm today announced the latest products in the Armv9 CPU portfolio: the Cortex-X925 as their "ultimate performance" processor and the Cortex-A725 as their processor option for sustained performance...

Linux 6.10 Features Include TPM Bus Encryption, More AMD Zen 5 & A Prison Letter Merge Request  Phoronix

QuestDB 8.0 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source time-series database. QuestDB continues to cater to high throughput ingestion and fast SQL queries so it can handle use-cases from financial data to IoT sensors. With today's QuestDB 8.0 release, it's even faster...

KDE's Eco group announced today "Opt Green" as a new initiative for sustainable software...

One of the newest open-source projects in-development by Ubuntu maker Canonical is a new C# written program called Flamenco...

The AMD shader compiler "ACO" alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end has seen another batch of changes merged in preparations for next-generation Radeon RDNA4 GPUs...

Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out  The Register

Alpine Linux 3.20 arrives with support for 64-bit RISC-V  The Register

Coming up on my radar today is a commit made to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adjusting the loop alignment with Intel's generic tuning path. In turn this should address "some random performance penalty in benchmarks" with coping better around cache lines...

The past year there's been a big Linux kernel patch series in the work by Intel to improve Sub-NUMA Clustering "SNC" support so it behaves well with Intel Resource Director Technology (RDT) on modern Intel hardware. Hopefully that work will soon be ready for mainlining in the Linux kernel while this week brought the 19th revision to those patches...

Intel's Sub-NUMA Clustering Support Linux Patches Spun A 19th Time  Phoronix

Get AI-Generated Images for Free on Linux, Thanks to Google and Opera  It's FOSS News

Flowblade 2.16 is out today as the newest version of this open-source non-linear video editor...

Linux in the Metaverse: Building Virtual Worlds With Open-Source Tools  ITPro Today

Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Fixes Drag and Drop Quirk on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

SVT-AV1 that started out as an open-source AV1 video encoder at Intel and more recently an an Alliance of Open Media project quietly released SVT-AV1 v2.1 last week. With this new SVT-AV1 release are yet more performance optimizations and tuning...

Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be quite busy preparing their Xe kernel driver and Mesa user-space ANV Vulkan / Iris Gallium3D driver for upcoming Lunar Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.2-devel is more Lunar Lake platform enablement work plus early support for ray-tracing with the integrated Xe2 graphics. However, more work is still needed before this Lunar Lake / Xe2 support will be ready for end-users on the Linux desktop...

How to migrate from Fedora Linux to Ultramarine (and why you'd want to)  ZDNet

AlmaLinux 8.10 Released, With Support for Deprecated Hardware  WebProNews

Exploring Linux Kernel 6.9: New Features and Improvements  Security Boulevard