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Kodi is a free and open-source media server application that transforms your Linux system into a full-fledged entertainment center. It lets you organize, play, and

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When it comes to gaining absolute control over your Linux system, then nothing comes close to the command line interface (CLI). In order to become

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Since 2006, Red Hat has used the Red Hat Innovation Awards to recognize the technological achievements of Red Hat customers around the world who demonstrate creative problem-solving to make a positive impact on the business world and society. This year’s winners are Banco da Amazonia, Eusko Jaularitzaren Informatika Elkartea (EJIE), Informationstechnikzentrum Bund (Capgemini) and Transpower New Zealand.A community-wide, online voting process will determine which customer is distinguished as the 2024 Red Hat Innovator of the Year. Voting is now open and will close at 9 a.m. ET on May 2nd. The

Ubuntu Linux 24.10 is named 'Oracular Oriole'  BetaNews

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc6 as the latest weekly test release of Linux 6.9 as it works toward its stable release by mid-May...

Linux 6.9-rc6 Released With This Kernel Looking "Pretty Normal"  Phoronix

While AMD Zen 4 processors whether it be the Ryzen 7000/8000 desktop/mobile series or EPYC 8004/9004 series server processors are already performing very well on Linux and with great power efficiency against the competition as shown in dozens of Phoronix articles at this point, it turns out there's been a minor power/performance optimization left untapped yet under Linux for select Zen 4 processors. A new patch series posted this Sunday allows for this "fast CPPC" feature to be utilized on supported processors...

AMD Enabling "Fast CPPC" For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs  Phoronix

On top of prior DRM-Next pull requests for the AMD kernel graphics driver working on next-gen GPU support along with fixes and other low-level improvements, on Friday another batch of new feature code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window opening up in mid-May...

A commit made to the Linux kernel three weeks ago accidentally broke the default CPU security mitigations for non-x86 CPUs. With code sent in today via x86/urgent ahead of tonight's Linux 6.9-rc6 release, that accidental default breakage is being addressed...

Linux 6.9-rc6 To Fix Accidentally Disabling Mitigations By Default For Non-x86 CPUs  Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 39 Adds NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P Support  Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 39 was released on Saturday for this cloud-focused, Rust-based VMM started by Intel and now a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project...

Since going beta in 2020, the Zrythm open-source digital audio workstation software has been inching its way toward a v1.0 release. On Saturday marked the release of v1.0.0-rc.1 as a release candidate for the upcoming v1.0 release of this GTK-based digital audio workstation (DAW) software...

Merged on Friday to the development codebase for the LLVM/Clang 19 compiler is support for the Arm Neoverse N3, V3, and V3AE SoCs...

How to disable Ubuntu Firewall  XDA Developers

SteamVR Beta gets Linux fixes, plus Beta updates for Desktop and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Proton 9.0 Beta updated and nearing release for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

The uutils' Rust-based Coreutils implementation is out with another update that further increases the drop-in replacement compatibility with GNU Coreutils...

Linux games get a performance boost with new NVIDIA NVK Vulkan graphics card driver  ITC