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The Ultimate Guide to Latest Linux Distros: Downloads, Features & More

Tecmint - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 13:00
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Welcome to the Linux Distros page where we catalog the latest versions of your favorite Linux distributions, highlight their latest features, direct you to the

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VKD3D 1.12 Released With Support For Directly Outputting SPIR-V & D3D Shader Assembly

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 08:23
While VKD3D-Proton that is bundled with Valve's Steam Play (Proton) is the most common source for mapping Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API for Windows games on Linux, Wine's VKD3D upstream continues to be developed. Out today is VKD3D 1.12 as the newest feature release for this open-source D3D12-on-Vulkan implementation...

XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 04:14
It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...

Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 03:49
A massive uptick in traffic to Fedora's package mirrors is causing problems for the Linux distribution. Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud...

Framework Announces Intel Core Ultra Powered Laptop With 2.8k Display

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 01:54
Framework is out today with some exciting announcements from lowering the price of the existing Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 series SoC to announcing a new Framework Laptop 13 powered by Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) and having a new 2.8K display option for this modular/upgradeable laptop shipping this summer...

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

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 00:15
Now that the Linux 6.10 merge window has wrapped up, here's a look at all of the exciting features/changes coming to this summer 2024 kernel. Linux 6.10 brings a lot as usual for the latest/upcoming Intel and AMD platforms, never-ending work on file-systems, a new memory sealing "mseal" system call, TPM bus encryption, and dozens of other exciting changes and new hardware support.

Arm Announces The Cortex-X925 & Cortex-A725

Phoronix - Thu, 05/30/2024 - 00:00
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...

QuestDB 8.0 Brings Up To 50% Performance Improvement, ZFS Data Compression

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 22:39
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 Launches "Opt Green" Initiative For Sustainable Software & Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 20:58
KDE's Eco group announced today "Opt Green" as a new initiative for sustainable software...

Canonical Developing "Flamenco" For Enhancing .NET Developer Experience On Ubuntu

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 19:06
One of the newest open-source projects in-development by Ubuntu maker Canonical is a new C# written program called Flamenco...

Valve's AMD Shader Compiler "ACO" Makes More Preparations For Radeon RDNA4

Phoronix - Wed, 05/29/2024 - 18:41
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...

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