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Linux 6.10 Preps For "When Things Go Seriously Wrong" On Bigger Servers

Phoronix - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 18:34
While machine check exception (MCE) events tend to be uncommon, a change made by Intel engineers is accommodating the ability in the Linux kernel to store more machine check records for "when things go seriously wrong" on increasingly high core count servers...

KDE Apps Improving Experience When Running Outside Of Plasma

Phoronix - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 18:23
KDE development remains very busy ahead of next month's Plasma 6.1 desktop release...

Wine 9.9 Brings ARM Improvements, Drops Obsolete WineD3D Features

Phoronix - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 08:37
Wine 9.9 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

Linux 6.10 Adds Support For Posted Interrupts On Bare Metal Hardware

Phoronix - Sat, 05/18/2024 - 00:10
Merged as part of the IRQ changes for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel is support for posted interrupts on bare metal hardware...

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...

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