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PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 21:47
In addition to Linux 6.10 expected to drop support for very old DEC Alpha processors (EV5 and earlier), it looks like the PowerPC 40x (early PowerPC 400 series) processor and platform support will be retired too...

Fedora Cleared To Build Python Package With "-O3" Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 21:38
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on the plans for Fedora 41 to build its Python using the "-O3" compiler optimization level rather than the "-O2" default for Fedora packages in the name of better performance...

Linux 6.10 To Drop Support For Very Old DEC Alpha Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 20:50
The Linux 6.10 kernel is poised to remove support for old DEC Alpha EV5 platforms and earlier...

Framework Laptop EC Driver Being Prepared For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 18:40
The modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops employ an open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware derived from Google's Chrome OS EC project. This is great for open-source fans and allows re-using much of the same Chrome OS EC software support that already exists. But there is also vendor-specific commands supported by the Framework Laptop EC and thus a dedicated Linux kernel driver is now being worked on for handling those vendor/device-specific features...

FreeBSD 14.1 Beta Released For Testing

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 18:16
The first beta of FreeBSD 14.1 is now available for testing in kicking off what will be the first point release building off last November's FreeBSD 14.0 release...

NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.12 Brings Fixes, Chrome Compatibility Work

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 18:02
There's a new release of the open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver available, the third-party VA-API implementation that in turn targets NVIDIA's NVDEC interface to allow software like Mozilla Firefox that only targets VA-API for video acceleration to work on NVIDIA GPUs...

Dillo 3.1 Lightweight Web Browser Released After Nine Years

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 17:51
Dillo 3.1 has been released to succeed the Dillo 3.0.5 release all the way back from 2015... Dillo is a lightweight web browser making use of the FLTK toolkit and is cross-platform, maintains few dependencies, and implements its own rendering engine...

Neofetch Alternatives: 3 Best Linux System Information Tools

Tecmint - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 13:00
The post Neofetch Alternatives: 3 Best Linux System Information Tools first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Neofetch, the popular command-line tool for displaying system information in a visually appealing ASCII format, is no longer being actively developed. The project’s main developer

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How to Safely Eject a USB Drive in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 12:43
The post How to Safely Eject a USB Drive in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When using a USB drive on a Linux system, it’s important to properly unmount and remove the drive to prevent data loss or corruption. Simply

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GIMP 2.10.38 Released As What Might Be The Last Of GIMP 2

Phoronix - Mon, 05/06/2024 - 12:00
GIMP 2.10.38 was released on Sunday as what might be the "possibly last" GIMP 2 stable release ahead of the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release. GIMP 2.10.38 back-ports more features from the GIMP 3.0 / GTK3 codebase plus other improvements and fixes...

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