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Fedora 41 Installer Proceeding To Transition From X11 To Wayland App

Phoronix - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 18:08
With Fedora's new web-based installer UI being delayed to 2025 with Fedora 42, part of Red Hat's justification for that setback was needing to invest resources first in Fedora 41 by transitioning the OS installer to being a native Wayland application. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now signed off on that work as expected to make the Anaconda OS installer a native Wayland application...

OpenShot 3.2 Released With Better Performance For This Open-Source Video Editor

Phoronix - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 17:38
OpenShot 3.2 has been released as the latest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editor that is popular on Linux systems...

RHCSA Series: Mastering Essential Commands & System Documentation – Part 2

Tecmint - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 13:00
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RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) is a certification exam from Red Hat company, which provides an open-source operating system

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RadeonSI Enables Compute PBO Blits: "Massively Improves Perf In A Number Of Cases"

Phoronix - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 01:59
Related to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz for significantly improving the Mesa glReadPixels performance by more than 100%, the open-source driver developer at Valve has now enabled compute PBO blits within mainline Mesa for the AMD Radeon "RadeonSI" Gallium3D driver...

Llamafile 0.8.7 Brings Fixes, Better ARM Performance & Preps For New Server

Phoronix - Mon, 06/24/2024 - 23:11
Llamafile has been one of the better new initiatives out of Mozilla in recent years. Llamafile makes it easy to conveniently distribute and run large language models as a single file while supporting both CPU and GPU execution and all-around making AI LLMs much more approachable for end-users. Out today is Llamafile 0.8.7 with more performance optimizations and new features...

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