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5 Most Frequently Used Open Source Shells for Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 11:36
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The shell is the command interpretor in an operating system such as Unix or GNU/Linux, it is a program that executes other programs. It provides

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Steam Survey Results For August Show A Linux Dip After A Very Exciting July

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 08:19
In July the Steam Survey results pointed to a half percent jump in the Linux gaming marketshare, taking it to nearly 2% thanks to the success of Valve's Steam Deck that runs their Arch Linux powered SteamOS platform. After the big boost in July you are probably wondering what happened in August... Well, a few minutes ago the new Steam Survey monthly results were published...

Linux From Scratch 12.0 Published For Rolling Your Own Linux Build

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 07:07
For those with extra time over the US Labor Day holiday weekend, Linux From Scratch 12 has been published for those wishing to hand-roll their own Linux system build from source. Linux From Scratch 12.0 is accompanied by the Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 12.0 release too, including the systemd variant, for further extending LFS installations with more packages...

Wine 8.15 Released With Few Changes, 19 Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 04:32
Following the recent Wine summer holiday, Wine 8.15 is out today and back on track with the usual two-week release regiment...

New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 23:31
Palmer Dabbelt sent out the initial batch of RISC-V processor architecture updates for the Linux 6.6 kernel port...

AMD Patches To Generate DeviceTree Nodes For PCI Devices Merged In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 22:51
The DeviceTree changes for Linux 6.6 add the ability to generate DeviceTree (DT) nodes for PCI devices. AMD spearheaded this effort for applying DeviceTree overlays to PCI devices containing non-discoverable downstream devices...

Intel Visual Sensing Controller "IVSC" Driver Support Coming With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 22:19
The media subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.6 kernel and most notably is introducing the Intel IVSC MEI drivers as well as extending the Intel IPU bridge logic to work with these new drivers...

OpenColorIO 2.3 Released With New AVX/AVX2 Optimizations

Phoronix - Fri, 09/01/2023 - 18:41
OpenColorIO (OCIO) as the open-source color management solution for motion picture production and maintained by the Academy Software Foundation is out with a new feature release that will be part of their 2024 VFX Reference Platform. Notable with this release are new SIMD optimizations with AVX/AVX2 and Arm NEON...

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