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[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1

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Linux 6.19 GPU Driver Features: Color Pipeline API, Intel Xe3P, AMDGPU For GCN 1.0/1.1
The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the…
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December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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[Phoronix] Graviton5 Announced With Up To 192 Cores Per Chip, 5x Larger Cache

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Graviton5 Announced With Up To 192 Cores Per Chip, 5x Larger Cache
Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4…
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December 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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[Linux Journal] Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam

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Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam
by George Whittaker For years, Windows users frustrated with constant changes, aggressive updates, and growing system bloat have flirted with switching to Linux. But 2025 marks a noticeable shift: a…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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[Phoronix] NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model

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NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model
NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is "the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago." The most notable addition with the CUDA…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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[Linuxiac] When Linus Met Linus: Insights from Torvalds’ Conversation with LTT

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When Linus Met Linus: Insights from Torvalds’ Conversation with LTT
Linus Torvalds shares stories and views about Linux in a detailed conversation with YouTube host Linus Sebastian of Linus Tech Tips.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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[Phoronix] Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC

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Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC
The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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[Foss Force] Turkey’s Pardus Shows What an EU Linux Could Be — If Brussels Really Means It

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Turkey’s Pardus Shows What an EU Linux Could Be — If Brussels Really Means It
As Europe talks up “EuroLinux” and digital sovereignty, Turkey’s Pardus has already spent two decades quietly running in its public sector. The post Turkey’s Pardus Shows What an EU Linux Could Be —…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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[LWN.net] Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released

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Alpine Linux 3.23.0 released
Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes in this release include an upgrade to version 3.0 of the Alpine Package Keeper (apk), and replacing the linux-edge package with…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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[LWN.net] [$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window

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[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window
As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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[Linuxiac] Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support

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Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support
Audacity 3.7.6 patch update introduces FFmpeg 8 compatibility, Wavelet spectrograms, middle-mouse panning, cloud upload fixes, and library updates.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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[9to5Linux] Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support, Spectrogram Wavelet Analysis

#Linux #OpenSource
Audacity 3.7.6 Audio Editor Adds FFmpeg 8 Support, Spectrogram Wavelet Analysis
Audacity 3.7.6 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with FFmpeg 8 support, Spectrogram Wavelet analysis, and other changes. Here's what's new!
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December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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[Phoronix] Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years

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Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years
The out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system is ready with its reconcile feature, which previously was known as "rebalance_v2", and what lead developer Kent Overstreet calls the biggest feature to this…
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December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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[How-to Geek] Alpine Linux just got updated (and still supports 32-bit)

#GNOME #Linux #LinuxKernel
Alpine Linux just got updated (and still supports 32-bit)
One of the kernel options is being swapped, and GNOME is being upgraded to 49.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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[9to5Linux] Raspberry Pi OS Now Lets You Safely Eject HDD and NVMe Drives Connected via USB

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Raspberry Pi OS Now Lets You Safely Eject HDD and NVMe Drives Connected via USB
Raspberry Pi OS 2025-12-04 is now available for download with the ability to safely eject HDD and NVMe drives connected via USB and other changes. Here's what's new!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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[How-to Geek] Windows users can now get Ubuntu Pro for free

#Ubuntu #Linux
Windows users can now get Ubuntu Pro for free
Turn your home PC into a pro Linux workstation.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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[Linuxiac] Raspberry Pi OS December Update Adds Safe USB Drive Eject

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Raspberry Pi OS December Update Adds Safe USB Drive Eject
Raspberry Pi OS adds safe USB HDD/NVMe eject, a new Alt-F2 run dialog in Labwc, and multiple stability fixes in its December update.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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[Phoronix] FreeBSD 15.0 Benchmarks Versus FreeBSD 14.3 On AMD EPYC

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FreeBSD 15.0 Benchmarks Versus FreeBSD 14.3 On AMD EPYC
This week brought the official release of FreeBSD 15.0 as the latest major update to this BSD operating system. In being eager to test out this new FreeBSD release, for this first round of FreeBSD…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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[Phoronix] Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

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Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port
Developers behind Redox OS, the original open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language, have ported Wayland to it with initially getting the Smallvil Wayland…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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[It's FOSS] Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help

#Linux #OpenSource
Reddit Strangers Built an Open Source Linux Handheld, And They Want Your Help
A fully modular development tool that you can build, modify, and extend yourself.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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[Phoronix] Former Intel Open-Source Project SVT-VP9 Sees First Update In 5 Years

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Former Intel Open-Source Project SVT-VP9 Sees First Update In 5 Years
The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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[Phoronix] Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems

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Printk Improvement For Linux 6.19 Can Significantly Speed-Up Boot Times For Some Systems
The Linux kernel's printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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[Linuxiac] Proxmox Launches Datacenter Manager 1.0 With Rust-Powered Interface

#Rust #OpenSource
Proxmox Launches Datacenter Manager 1.0 With Rust-Powered Interface
Proxmox releases Datacenter Manager 1.0 with centralized control, unified dashboards, and multi-cluster management for VE and Backup Server.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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[LWN.net] [$] A "frozen" dictionary for Python

#Python #OpenSource
[$] A "frozen" dictionary for Python
Dictionaries are ubiquitous in Python code; they are the data structure of choice for a wide variety of tasks. But dictionaries are mutable, which makes them problematic for sharing data in…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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[It's FOSS] Fedora 44 is Replacing Decades-Old Kernel Console with Safer, Modern Alternative

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Fedora 44 is Replacing Decades-Old Kernel Console with Safer, Modern Alternative
It is making a more secure userspace console the default while keeping the old one as a backup.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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[LWN.net] cmocka 2.0 released

#Framework #OpenSource
cmocka 2.0 released
Andreas Schneider has announced version 2.0 of the cmocka unit-testing framework for C: This release represents a major modernization effort, bringing cmocka firmly into the "modern" C99 era while…
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December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM