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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop Installer Adds New Accessibility Options
The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop installer has rolled out accessibility options built into the initial GUI for helping enable additional features...
dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support
While recent graphics cards support GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding, for those still relying on dav1d for CPU-based AV1 decode there is now version 1.4 "Road Runner" available that adds support for LoongArch and RISC-V architectures while continuing to further enhance the performance of this open-source AV1 decoder on x86_64 Intel/AMD processors too...
More Fixes Land Ahead Of KDE Plasma 6.0 Coming In Two Weeks
There is just two weeks to go until the much-anticipated KDE 6 Mega-Release that includes KDE Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6, and the updated KDE Gear apps. KDE developers continue fixing bugs as well as already working on KDE Plasma 6.1 features...
Intel's OIDn 2.2 Released With Meteor Lake GPU Support, Better CPU Performance
Intel on Friday released Open Image Denoise 2.2 as the newest version of this open-source denoising library used by Blender and other software...
New GNOME Mutter Code Prepares Fractional Scaling For XWayland
A merge request was opened this week for plumbing fractional scaling support for XWayland clients running on the GNOME Mutter compositor...
Modded NES runs Linux-like OS in bold DIY achievement - My Nintendo News
Modded NES runs Linux-like OS in bold DIY achievement My Nintendo News
Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code
Longtime Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner with Intel-owned Linutronix has been spending much time over the past several months reworking the Linux kernel's x86 CPU topology evaluation code. This is to clean-up a mess of aging kernel code as well as some areas of the code being incorrect in today's era of hybrid Intel Core processors with a mix of P / E cores with the E cores lacking SMT/HT and thus throwing off prior kernel assumptions. With the code now queued up in a TIP branch today, it looks like that CPU topology rework could be good to go with Linux 6.9...
FreeBSD Has Been Working On AMD64 SIMD libc Optimizations - Coming For FreeBSD 14.1
The FreeBSD project today issued their Q4'2023 status report that highlights all of their interesting work accomplished last quarter on this open-source platform. Among the interesting achievements were the FreeBSD Foundation sponsoring AMD64 SIMD improvements for FreeBSD 15 that will also be back-ported to FreeBSD 14.1...