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Deep dive into sosreport: understanding the data pack layout in Fedora & RHEL

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
This article will describe the content and structure of the sosreport output. The aim is to improve its usefullness through a better understanding of its contents. ???? What is sosreport? sosreport is a powerful command-line utility available on Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and other RHEL-based systems to collect a comprehensive snapshot of […]
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PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...
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Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons)

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
From where I sit and based on what I can see, this is "Team Mono" all over again. "Team Wayland" is scoring many own goals this month. Trying to force some distros to default to Wayland (or worse, offer only Wayland as an option, i.e. opposite of freedom) isn't winning, it's making a lot more enemies (alienation and suspicion) and earning even more pushback than ever before.
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KDE Plasma 6.4: Opening the Hood to See What’s New

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
This minor point release of KDE Plasma 6.4 packs enough new features to make it worth your attention.
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AVX-512's Enormous Advantage On AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost effectiveness. Among the many advantages to these budget-friendly EPYC processors is having AVX-512 support with a full 512-bit data path compared to the Xeon 6300 series only having AVX2. For providing more insight into the AVX-512 performance impact with the AMD EPYC 4005 series, here are some enabled/disabled comparison benchmarks and how they are positioned relative to the Xeon 6369P server processor.
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CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
Learning from the lessons of the pastinterview Anuj Kapur, CEO of DevOps darling CloudBees, reckons that AI could retest the founding assumptions of DevOps as a whole, but warns against the risk of creating black-boxed code in the pursuit of greater efficiency. He also says that some customers who rushed into AI-generated code for fear of missing out (FOMO) are starting to slow down and be more considered.…
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Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People)

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
Techrights is very difficult to portray as "right-wing", so some people instead attempted to say something like, "well, there are some right-wing people in the IRC channel or the IRC network" (as if we choose who comes there, we very seldom use a ban-hammer).
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Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...
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Tiling terminal multiplexers for the console connoisseur

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:20
Split your shell for fun and profit – even over remote connectionsAll the fun of a tiling window manager right on the console, without needing a GUI at all. What's not to like?…
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Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 14:35
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...
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From Windows to Freedom: How Zorin OS 18 Makes Migrating to Linux Seamless

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 14:35
In this article, we’ll explore how Zorin OS 18 bridges the gap between Windows and Linux, making the switch not only possible but pleasant.
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Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 14:35
The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...
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Fedora 44 Plans to Drop i686 Support and 32-Bit Multilib Compatibility

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 10:34
Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release is helping tap additional performance out of modern servers.
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Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacyThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law.…
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mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...
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KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with various improvements and bug fixes.
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LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copiesOne of the most tech-savvy judges in the US has ruled that Anthropic is within its rights to scan purchased books to train its Claude AI model, but that pirating content is legally out of bounds.…
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Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...
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Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles on Fedora 42

Wed, 06/25/2025 - 17:54
This post is immedidate follow up for https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/354995/index.html . Hyprpaper is a fast Wayland wallpaper utility, primarily designed for use with Hyprland, that supports dynamic wallpaper changes via Inter-Process Communication (IPC). It enables users to switch wallpapers quickly and efficiently through commands or scripts. The "IPC" part refers to the mechanism that allows Hyprpaper to communicate with other programs and scripts, enabling real-time changes to the wallpaper.
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