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Ubuntu 24.10 To See More Polishing, NVIDIA Wayland By Default & New Welcome Wizard

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 22:00
Oliver Smith who is serving as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical has shared some roadmap plans around Ubuntu 24.10. With this being the first post-LTS release following last month's Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support, they are more free to innovate this cycle and they have a lot of great plans for enhancing the Linux desktop experience...

Intel's OpenVINO Now Available In openSUSE

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 21:48
OpenSUSE is the first major Linux distribution to package up and offer Intel's OpenVINO open-source AI toolkit within its package repository...

Linux 6.10 Improves Performance For Opening Unencrypted Files

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 20:37
FSCRYPT is the file-system encryption framework within the Linux kernel for supporting optional encryption on file-systems like EXT4, F2FS, Btrfs, and others. With Linux 6.10 an optimization is coming for enhancing the performance of opening files on file-systems supporting FSCRYPT-based encryption but when the files are unencrypted...

Linux 6.10 Wires Up More Compute Express Link "CXL" Functionality

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 18:49
The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem development continues to be led by Intel engineers and with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel there are yet more features in tow...

Intel Readies Xeon Phi Removal For GCC 15

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 18:32
For the GCC 14 compiler release is the deprecation of the Xeon Phi targets. With Intel Knights Landing and Knights Mill being end-of-life at Intel, they are working to do away with the GNU Compiler Collection support. A patch has been posted to drop the Xeon Phi ISAs with GCC 15...

EROFS Adds Zstd & Btrfs Gets Minor Performance Work In Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 18:21
The EROFS and Btrfs file-systems saw their feature patches merged as part of the ongoing Linux 6.10 merge window...

Sysctl Sentinel Bloat Removal Wrapping Up In Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 18:12
The year-long effort to removal the sysctl sentinel for clearing bloat from the kernel and allowing faster build times should be crossing the finish line in Linux 6.10...

Top 5 Open-Source Enterprise Software for Linux in 2024

Tecmint - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 15:00
The post Top 5 Open-Source Enterprise Software for Linux in 2024 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Over the years, Linux has been gradually gaining more and more popularity not only with individual users but also with businesses and enterprises looking for

The post Top 5 Open-Source Enterprise Software for Linux in 2024 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

GNOME 47 Aims For Release On 18 September

Phoronix - Fri, 05/17/2024 - 08:43
The GNOME project has now solidified their release schedule for the current GNOME 47 development cycle: GNOME 47.0 should be out on 18 September...

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