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Linux Kernel Surpasses 40 Million Lines

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
The Linux kernel has rapidly grown, reaching an impressive milestone, surpassing 40 million lines of code.
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Linux performance overlay MangoHud 0.8.0-rc1 out now for testing with Intel GPU support and lots of improvements

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
MangoHud is a performance overlay you can use on Desktop Linux, and it's what powers the built-in overlay on Steam Deck. A new release candidate is now available for testing for an upcoming stable release with version 0.8.0-rc1.
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"NOVA-Core" Patches Propose Building New NVIDIA Driver Piece-By-Piece In The Linux Kernel

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Red Hat engineers have been working on Nova as an open-source driver successor to the Nouveau driver for upstream NVIDIA GPU support within the Linux kernel that can be used with the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers.
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Yandex’s High-Performance Profiler Is Going Open Source

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Hello! Today, we’re open-sourcing Perforator, a continuous profiling system we use at Yandex to analyze the performance of most of our services.
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Contribute at the Fedora Linux Test Week for Kernel 6.13

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 6.13. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux. As a result, the Fedora Linux kernel and QA teams have organized a test week from Sunday,February 02, 2025 to Sunday, February 09, 2025.
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This Sculpt OS video walkthrough explains how to use Sculpt OS

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
We talk about the Genode project and Sculpt OS quite regularly on OSNews, but every time I’ve tried using Sculpt OS, I’ve always found it so different and so unique compared to everything else that I just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
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Plasma secrets: icons-only task manager & selective grouping

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
I said this many times before, and I'll say it again. Plasma is by far the best, most elegant and ergonomic desktop out there. It's visually pleasing, it's designed with clever thought and passion, and it comes with a bewildering array of options and settings so you can set it up just the way you like it.
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Let’s Encrypt Phases Out Certificates Expiry Notifications

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Let’s Encrypt, the world’s leading provider of free, automated, and open SSL/TLS certificates for websites, has announced plans to end its longstanding practice of sending email reminders about certificate expirations.
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Running inference in web extensions

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
We’re shipping a new API in Firefox Nightly that will let you use our Firefox AI runtime to run offline machine learning tasks in your web extension.
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 / RTX 5090 Linux Gaming Benchmarks

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Over the past week I have published a number of GeForce RTX 5090 Linux compute benchmarks as well as the GeForce RTX 5080 on Linux. With that early NVIDIA R570 Linux driver build as part of the CUDA 12.8 package I was asked to wait on Linux gaming benchmarks until the proper RTX 50 Linux driver is released.
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How To Mount A Drive Permanently In Linux Using Fstab: A Step-by-Step Guide

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
This detailed guide explains how to permanently mount an external drive in Linux using the fstab file. It also covers best practices to ensure a reliable setup.
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Using Lynix for Linux Security Audits (Video Tutorial)

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Watch this tutorial to learn how to use Lynis, an open source security auditing tool, to audit and enhance Linux security.
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Adafruit CLUE: A Sensor-Packed nRF52840 Development Board in a micro:bit Form Factor

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
The Adafruit CLUE is a development board with a built-in display, multiple sensors, and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity. It follows the form factor of the BBC micro:bit while incorporating additional processing power and expanded functionality. The board is designed for applications involving data visualization, sensor-based measurements, and wireless communication.
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GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, Linux 6.12 LTS

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
GParted 1.7 and GParted Live 1.7 have been released today for this open-source and free partition manager that lets you resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss.
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DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims. The speed and efficiency at which DeepSeek claims to be training large language models (LLMs) competitive with America's best has been a reality check for Silicon Valley. However, the startup isn't the only Chinese model builder the US has to worry about.
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Alpine Linux Expands Funding Model with Open Collective Support

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Alpine Linux is now on Open Collective, opening new ways for users and organizations to support its infrastructure and long-term sustainability financially.
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High Tide is a Promising New Linux TIDAL Client

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
Linux users hunting for a native client to stream music from TIDAL will want to keep an eye on a promising new open-source app called High Tide.
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ELevate Now Allows No Fuss Migration to CentOS 10

Linux News - Sat, 02/01/2025 - 22:20
If you’re using CentOS 9 in production and you’re ready to make the move to CentOS 10, AlmaLinux’s ELevate tool can help.
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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Merges "Major Improvement" For Xe3 With VRT Support

Linux News - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 22:20
The open-source Intel Linux Mesa graphics driver code has merged support for a "major improvement" found with next-gen Xe3 graphics... Variable Register Thread (VRT) as one of the nifty features that will help with Intel integrated and discrete graphics performance.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Matrix Clients

Linux News - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 22:20
This roundup features the finest terminal-based Matrix clients. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
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