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New Linux Patches Aim To Help Improve Intel Meteor Lake Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 19:40
There are some new Linux kernel patches that were posted by Intel on Monday that aim to help enhance the overall performance and power efficiency of new Meteor Lake laptop processors under Linux...

X.Org Server Clears Out Remnants For Supporting Old Compilers

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 19:27
There are still no signs of a new X.Org Server feature release coming in the near-term with most of the major stakeholders divesting from the xorg-server besides the XWayland portion of the code-base. But for those interested in the past few days there have been some NetBSD/OpenBSD build fixes to the X.Org Server as well as clearing out some remnants of old compiler support...

Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 10:40
With Valve's release today of the Steam Audio SDK 4.5.2 they have made the software development kit fully open-source under an Apache 2.0 license...

Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver Updated For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 08:54
For years Wine developers have been after a better synchronization API for the Linux kernel to better match the semantics of Microsoft Windows. Posted back in January was a request for comments on an "NTSYNC" Linux kernel driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel. At the start of the month a post-RFC version was posted of this open-source driver and today the latest iteration of that work has been published to the kernel mailing list...

Red Hat Global Tech Trends 2024: Security remains top priority while IT management funding priorities shift

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 08:00
Results from Red Hat's 10th Global Tech Trends survey are in, and, as in years past, we explore what the data reveals about where organizations are in their digital transformation initiatives, IT and non-IT funding priorities, and the state of cloud. We surveyed over 700 information technology (IT) leaders worldwide, across various industries and regions, to help us better understand new aspects of technology use and track trends. Here, we highlight key findings and trends from the report and how these results have changed over time.Security remains a top funding priorityIt is no surprise that

Fedora Workstation's Anaconda Web UI Installer Delayed To Fedora 41

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 06:50
For over two years Red Hat's engineers working on the Anaconda installer have been working on a modern web-based installer UI that integrates with Cockpit and is a modern alternative to their GTK-based installer interface for deploying Fedora Linux and eventually RHEL too. The hope was to offer this web UI installer option for Fedora Workstation 40 but that's now been delayed to Fedora 41...

AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 06:09
Following the initial AMDGPU driver updates targeting Linux 6.9 that were submitted to DRM-Next one week ago, another batch of AMDGPU feature updates were sent out today ahead of this next kernel cycle kicking off in March...

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