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Ubuntu 24.04: Same as it ever was, but with 5 big improvements  ZDNet

Ubuntu 24.04: Same as it ever was, but with 5 big improvements  ZDNet

With the Mesa 24.1-devel Git code as of this morning, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_KHR_video_decode_av1 for Vulkan Video accelerated decoding of AV1 video content...

The Linux kernel has supported the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" via the "intel_hfi" driver since 2022 for bettering supporting Core hybrid processors. The Intel HFI can be used for communicating performance and energy efficiency capabilities of individual CPU cores of the system. In turn the Linux kernel can leverage Intel HFI details for better task placement among the available CPU cores/threads. With a new patch series, the Intel HFI driver can "save tons of CPU cycles" by only enabling it when needed...

Intel HFI Driver Can "Save Tons Of CPU Cycles" By Only Enabling Itself When Needed  Phoronix

It looks like AMD will soon be announcing the ROCm 6.1 update to its open-source GPU compute stack...

The first release candidate of FreeBSD 13.3 is now available for testing. While FreeBSD 14 stable has been out now for months, FreeBSD 13.3 is the latest in the prior series for those continuing to rely on FreeBSD 13 in production...

5 things to consider before leaping from one Linux distribution to another  ZDNet

5 things to consider before leaping from one Linux distribution to another  ZDNet

Deno shrinks deno compile binaries  InfoWorld

Tiny Core Linux 15.0 Unleashed: A Giant Leap for Minimalist Computing  BNN Breaking

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Offers Solution To Elon Musk's Microsoft Woes: 'Join Us And Become A Desktop ...  TradingView

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Offers Solution To Elon Musk's Microsoft Woes: 'Join Us And Become A Desktop ...  Investing.com UK

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Open-Source Linux to Elon Musk Amidst Windows Frustration  BNN Breaking

Vitalik Buterin has an open-source solution to Elon Musk's Microsoft OS issues  Cointelegraph

Vitalik Buterin has an open-source solution to Elon Musk's Microsoft OS issues  TradingView

Best Linux distro for beginners of 2024  TechRadar

Ubuntu/Canonical has for a while now promoted the prospects of Rust programming within the Linux kernel and one of their kernel engineers, Andrea Righi, wrote a Rust-written Linux scheduler with promising results that leverages eBPF for dynamically loading it at run-time. While Ubuntu isn't yet committing to using it as part of their distribution, appearing on the Ubuntu blog today was more praise for the work and even talking about the potential for a "micro-kernel design" in the future via leveraging Rust and eBPF...

Ubuntu Blog Talks Up Rust Schedulers, Potential For Micro-Kernel Design Future  Phoronix

KiCad 8.0 has been released as the latest major feature release for this open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) software suite. KiCad supports designing PCB layouts, provides a 3D viewer for inspecting PCBs, and other functionality...