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Canonical's 'distroless' Linux images are a game-changer for enterprises  ZDNet

Merged into Mesa 24.2 on Thursday is Vulkan sparse binding support for the CPU-based Lavapipe driver...

Besides Red Hat / Fedora working on a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer, (open)SUSE developers remain very busy working on their Agama installer with new web-based interface. Agama 9 has now been announced as the latest iteration of SUSE's OS installer work...

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso had been doing a lot of work on the Etnaviv driver stack for open-source, reverse-engineered Vivante driver support that began with the 3D graphics support but Vizoso tackled enabling the Vivante NPU IP as well. After all the successes with the Etnaviv NPU support, he turned his attention to creating an open-source driver stack for the Rockchip NPUs. Now thanks to a new sponsorship deal, he's back to making more Etnaviv improvements...

A few days ago was the release of the OpenShot 3.2 open-source video editor while Shotcut 24.06 also released this week as another great cross-platform, free software video editing solution...

The post How to Install CakePHP on Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

CakePHP is a most popular and widely-used open-source web application framework built in PHP that follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural

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Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form LF Decentralized Trust  Crypto Reporter

Canonical's 'distroless' Linux images are a game-changer for enterprises  ZDNet

Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux  AWS Blog

The post How to Convert WebM Videos to Any Format on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the world of digital media, the WebM format has gained significant popularity due to its open-source nature and efficient

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(Updated) HiFive Unmatched SBC showcases new FU740 RISC-V SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

The post RHCSA Series: Mastering Linux Boot & Process Management in Linux – Part 6 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this article of the RHCSA series, we will start with a brief revision of what happens from the moment

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Sent in as the sole patch for this week's Linux power management subsystem updates is an important fix for Intel Core hybrid systems with buggy firmware. The Intel P-State driver fix can address as much as a 50% performance hit seen with existing Linux kernel versions on affected Intel hybrid platforms...

Linux Fixing A Major Performance Issue For Intel Hybrid Systems With Buggy Firmware  Phoronix

Shotcut 24.06 Video Editor Adds AVIF Image Support and SVT-AV1 Encoder  9to5Linux

Proposed Linux Kernel Patch Could Boost Raspberry Pi 5 Performance by Up To 18 Percent  Hackster.io

Proposed Linux Kernel Patch Could Boost Raspberry Pi 5 Performance by Up to 18 Percent  Hackster.io

Last week the GNOME 47 development code saw Wayland DRM lease protocol support for enhancing VR headset handling and separately was also accent color support for GNOME Shell. Adding to the recent slew of changes landing for GNOME 47, the GNOME Shell and Mutter code can now be successfully compiled -- optionally -- without any X11 support or requiring any X11 build dependencies...

AMD today published version 1.4.34 of its Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK. This accelerated multimedia framework is used on Linux and Windows for integrating with games/applications leveraging DirectX, OpenGL, and OpenCL with interoperability support for Radeon GPU customers...

AMD's Advanced Media Framework Promotes RADV Support  Phoronix