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Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store

Phoronix - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 12:00
The developers at System76 working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment catering to their in-house, Ubuntu-derived Pop!_OS Linux distribution have provided their latest monthly status update on the desktop effort...

AMD ROCm 6.1.1 Brings Fixes, Preps For Upcoming Changes & cuDNN 9.0 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 07:11
Following the release of ROCm 6.1 just under one month ago, ROCm 6.1.1 was published today as the newest point release to deliver various bug fixes and other minor improvements to this open-source GPU compute stack...

Mesa 24.0.7 & Mesa 24.1-rc3 Provide Latest Open-Source OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 02:00
Ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom continues carrying out a splendid job with the on-time releases of new bi-weekly Mesa point releases and the weekly release candidates heading toward the next feature release of these open-source predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Zed Code Editor Making Progress On Linux Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 01:11
Back in January the Zed editor was open-sourced for this new code editor from the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework. This high performance code editor has been initially focused on macOS support while the Linux support has begun coming together...

Intel Revises PCIe Cooling Driver To Reduce Link Speed When Running Too Hot

Phoronix - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 00:19
Since last year Intel's open-source software engineers have been working on a PCIe bandwidth controller driver for the Linux kernel to avoid thermal issues by being able to automatically reduce the PCIe link speed when needed. This driver still isn't over the finish line but today brought the fifth iteration of these patches...

RISC-V Performance On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS With Scaleway's EM-RV1

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 22:45
Recently I've been testing out the Scaleway's Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) RISC-V cloud servers. Initially they were using Ubuntu 23.10 for providing an up-to-date Ubuntu Linux RISC-V experience while quickly upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. For those curious how Ubuntu 24.04 is performing on RISC-V hardware, here are some comparison benchmarks.

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices, KDE Plasma 6 By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 21:49
Building off the recent release of Fedora 40, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for this downstream of Fedora Linux that's optimized to run on Apple Silicon ARM systems...

SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch

Phoronix - Wed, 05/08/2024 - 21:26
SHIFTphone 8 is the upcoming modular and easy-to-repair smartphone from Germany's SHIFT GmbH. This is the first major SHIFTphone update in four years and there are pending patches providing mainline Linux kernel support for this forthcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon powered modular/upgradeable smartphone...

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