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      Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:30

    The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...
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      LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:27

    The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...
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      OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:05

    The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...
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      Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:48

    Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.
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      Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:37

    Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...
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      AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:07

    AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC...
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      Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:23

    The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate...
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      Linux 7.3 To Make It Easier To Disable Syscall User Dispatch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:40

    Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming. Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it...
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      XWayland 24.1.13 Released To Fix Two More Security Issues In The X.Org Codebase

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:44

    Two more security issues were made public today concerning the X.Org Server codebase and in turn XWayland also being affected...