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Founded by Michael Larabel in 2004, Phoronix is the largest #opensource news, #Linux hardware reviews & performance #benchmark site.

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2024-08-15 17:09:05

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use
Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to "make AI boring" by this inferencing tool striving for simplicity so users can quickly and easily deploy AI workloads without much fuss...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Ramalama
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2024-07-10 17:39:05

Zed Editor Now Publishing Native Linux Builds
The Rust-written, GPU-accelerated Zed text editor is finally providing official Linux builds!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Native-Linux-Builds
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2024-06-15 13:54:05

New Linux Change Helps Ensure AMD Ryzen With NVMe Works After Resuming From Suspend
A Linux power management change merged on Friday aims to help ensure AMD Ryzen systems with NVMe solid-state drive storage will work properly when resuming from suspend...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-rc4-PM-Ryzen-NVMe
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2024-06-14 21:24:09

KDE Receives New Human Interface Guidelines For 2024
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-New-HIG-2024
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2024-06-11 23:24:05

systemd 256 Released With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & Other New Features
Systemd 256 is out today as the latest major feature update to this integral component to modern Linux distributions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-256
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2024-06-04 10:09:06

FreeBSD 14.1 Released With Performance Improvements, OpenZFS Upgrade & Better Sound
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is now available as the newest stable release to this leading BSD operating system. There are a number of package updates, new features, and expanded hardware support to find with FreeBSD 14.1...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.1-Released
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2024-06-03 12:54:04

Linux Mint Disabling Unverified Flatpaks By Default
The Linux Mint project is out with its monthly newsletter that highlights recent progress made on this Ubuntu (and Debian) derived, desktop-focused Linux distribution. In May they worked out enhancements to Linux Mint's software manager and also continued working on optimizing their package archive hosting...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Unverified-Flatpaks
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2024-05-29 20:24:06

XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed
It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6.2-Released
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2024-05-23 16:54:07

Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD
Coreboot 24.05 is available today as the newest stable release of this open-source system firmware solution. With Coreboot 24.05 there is support for 25 more motherboards/platforms and an assortment of other improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-24.05-Released
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2024-05-23 00:54:14

systemd 256 Nears Release With run0, systemd-vpick, importctl & More
It looks like systemd 256 will officially debut as stable in the near future with systemd 256-rc3 being released today and not tacking on any new features compared to the prior release candidates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-256-rc3-Released
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2024-05-22 16:24:05

Linux 6.10 Shows People Are Still Using USB To Parallel Port Adapters In 2024
Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out the USB/Thunderbolt changes this morning for the Linux 6.10 merge window that is wrapping up this weekend. Surprisingly, in 2024, a new USB to parallel printer port adapter variant is being introduced with Linux 6.10...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-USB
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2024-05-15 12:54:05

XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan just announced the stable release of XWayland 24.1 as the newest feature release for this X.Org Server code allowing X11 clients to work within the confines of Wayland compositors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-Released
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2024-05-14 20:24:09

Framework 13 AMD Laptop Seeing Experimental Coreboot Port
The Framework Laptops are some great systems with their upgradeable/modular design, friendly Linux support, both Intel and AMD options, the latest models making use of an open-source embedded controller, and nice build quality. The Framework Laptops have proven very popular with Linux/open-source enthusiasts but one of the recurring critiques has been the lack of Coreboot firmw…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-AMD-Coreboot-WIP
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2024-05-14 10:24:05

Manjaro 24.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.9 & The Latest Desktops
Manjaro 24.0 has been released today as the newest version of this Arch Linux derived desktop OS. Manjaro 24.0 ships with the latest the newly-released Linux 6.9 kernel and a slew of other updated packages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-24.0-Released
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2024-05-06 13:54:04

PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel
In addition to Linux 6.10 expected to drop support for very old DEC Alpha processors (EV5 and earlier), it looks like the PowerPC 40x (early PowerPC 400 series) processor and platform support will be retired too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerPC-40x-Removal-Patches
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2024-05-06 10:54:06

Framework Laptop EC Driver Being Prepared For Linux
The modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops employ an open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware derived from Google's Chrome OS EC project. This is great for open-source fans and allows re-using much of the same Chrome OS EC software support that already exists. But there is also vendor-specific commands supported by the Framework Laptop EC and thus a dedicated Linux kernel driver is …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-EC-Driver
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2024-05-06 04:09:05

GIMP 2.10.38 Released As What Might Be The Last Of GIMP 2
GIMP 2.10.38 was released on Sunday as what might be the "possibly last" GIMP 2 stable release ahead of the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release. GIMP 2.10.38 back-ports more features from the GIMP 3.0 / GTK3 codebase plus other improvements and fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-2.10.38-Released
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2024-04-21 14:39:05

AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users
This weekend AMD upstreamed a number of new AMDGPU firmware files into the linux-firmware.git repository that serves as a basis for all of the binary firmware/microcode files used by the Linux kernel drivers. This big set of new AMDGPU firmware files is likely for the upcoming RDNA 3.5 / "RDNA3 refresh" / RDNA3+ as it appears will be called updated RDNA3 graphics for upcoming AMD Ryzen S…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA3-Plus-Firmware-Files
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