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GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer

Phoronix - Sat, 04/06/2024 - 18:53
In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer...

KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color

Phoronix - Sat, 04/06/2024 - 18:29
KDE developers have had another busy week working on fixes for Plasma 6.0 while simultaneously preparing new features for Plasma 6.1...

Pingora 0.1 Released As Cloudflare's Rust Code For Reliable & Fast Networked Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 04/06/2024 - 02:45
Back in 2022 Cloudflare began talking about replacing Nginx with their own in-house, Rust-written code called Pingora, talked about Pingora more in 2023, and then this past February made this Pingora framework open-source for creating reliable and fast networked systems. Today marks the first official release of Pingora with the v0.1 tag...

Wine 9.6 Adds Support For Advanced AVX Features In Register Contexts

Phoronix - Sat, 04/06/2024 - 01:39
Wine 9.6 has just been issued as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and applications under Linux...

New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"

Phoronix - Sat, 04/06/2024 - 00:21
Veteran Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra is working to wrap-up feature work around the EEVDF kernel scheduler code...

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/05/2024 - 22:49
The OpenZFS file-system has merged support for using multiple task queues (TaskQs) to enhance performance for multi-core systems...

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 04/05/2024 - 22:17
OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...

Fwupd 1.9.16 Adds Support For More USB Docks & Qualcomm Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 04/05/2024 - 20:57
Richard Hughes of Red Hat has published Fwupd 1.9.16 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for easy firmware redistribution...

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