LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite LibreOffice 24.8 is officially out today as the latest major feature update to this open-source office suite that's the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office. With LibreOffice 24.8 comes many new features throughout its various components...

LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite - Phoronix

LibreOffice 24.8 is officially out today as the latest major feature update to this open-source office suite that's the leading free software ...

Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility...

Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems - Phoronix

This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/di...

VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements. Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update...

VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update - Phoronix

Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle

Intel Continues To Show AMD The Importance Of Software Optimizations: 16% More Ryzen 9 9950X Performance As part of my ongoing AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Linux testing, last week I provided a look at the AVX-512 benefits to Zen 5 and also the Windows vs. Linux performance for the Ryzen 9 9950X. For sharing today is a look at multiple Linux distributions up and running on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) desktop. Among the distributions in the mix a…

Intel Continues To Show AMD The Importance Of Software Optimizations: 16% More Ryzen 9 9950X Performance - Phoronix

As part of my ongoing AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Linux testing, last week I provided a look at the AVX-512 benefits to Zen 5 and also the Windows vs.

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option Arch Linux powered CachyOS that is known for its performance optimizations and other enhancements is out with its "August 2024" rolling release update...

Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option - Phoronix

Arch Linux powered CachyOS that is known for its performance optimizations and other enhancements is out with its 'August 2024' rolling r...

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library...

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 - Phoronix

Lab Wayland Compositor 'labwc' v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the ...

GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GNOME-Session code have also seen the ability added to compile without X11 support...

GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support - Phoronix

Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GN...

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week.

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding - Phoronix

The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon

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...

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use - Phoronix

Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to 'make AI boring' by this inferencing tool stri...