A reminder that Ubuntu 24.10 and its community editions have reached the ends of their supported life spans:
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A series of articles comparing Wayland vs X11 performance across multiple GPUs and multiple distributions:
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Oracle Linux 10.0 is now available for people to download and try:
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Canonical plans to remove GPU exploit mitigation in order to boost Intel's performance by 20%:
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We now have over 1,000 open source operating systems in our database. Which means we've been adding an average of about one Linux distribution per week for 20 years.
Hammer Slackware services are moving to new servers:
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Bad news for Pixel owners and the open source projects trying to support them:
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About of a third of the projects in our database do not run systemd. It's unfortunate to see GNOME turn its back on so many members of the open source community:
Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd – Adrian's blog
PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME
This degree of compiler speed is impressive. I am curious to see how its code performance compares to LLVM.
It's FOSS
Wow! This New Open Source Compiler is 20 Times Faster Than LLVM
A new compiler backend framework focused on faster code generation appears.
AlmaLinux OS 10.0 released with compatibility for x86_64-v2, which was dropped by their upstream distro:
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