The SoC power slider is the newest means for Intel systems to communicate their system-wide energy performance preferences. The SoC Power Slider support on Linux is building off the Linux Platform Profile API and using the same
Intel Power Slider Support For Panther Lake Set To Premier In Linux 6.18
The SoC power slider is the newest means for Intel systems to communicate their system-wide energy performance preferences. The SoC Power Slider support on Linux is building off the Linux Platform Profile API and using the same
Linux's Current & Future Rust Graphics Drivers Getting Their Own Development Tree
Currently the existing DRM Rust code has been going through the DRM-Misc tree that is the "catch all" for smaller Direct Rendering Manager drivers not being maintained on their own before being submitted to DRM-Next/DRM-Fixes. But to ease the development of
Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August
The Steam Survey results for August 202
GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature
GIMP 3.1.4 has initial support for Link Layers, which allow linking external image files as a layer in your project. With Link Layers you could use an external SVG image file as a link layer, edit that Scalable Vector Graphics
Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times
Linking time can contribute significantly to the overall compilation/build time. In tests carried out by Rust developers, the linker performance can improve by as much as 7x and in the case of ripgrep yielded a 40% reduction in the end-to-end compilation time. Or for
AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18
This initial batch of AMDGPU and AMDKFD compute driver changes for Linux 6.18 aren't too particularly exciting compared to some of the recent kernel releases, but there still are a few weeks to go where they may have additional feature code ready for merging to DRM-Next.
This initial pull of AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver changes for Linux 6.18 does
Gentex PLACE Any Space PL1AS / PL1K As A Replacement For Nest Protect Smoke Detectors
Not your typical review on Phoronix today but rather a brief look at the Gentex PLACE Any Space smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. For those facing ten years on their Nest Protect smoke detectors and looking for an end-of-life replacement to these smoke detectors discontinued by Google, the Gentex PLACE smart smoke detectors are an interesting and capable alternative. Being faced by needing to find a replacement to Nest Protects myself that have now expired and finding many others in the same boat with no clear winning smart smoke detector right now
Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time
Open-source exFAT file-system developer Namjae Jeon has a very nice optimization on the way to the Linux kernel. He explains with this patch now in the exfat.git "dev" branch:
exfat: optimize allocation bitmap loading time
Loading the allocation bitmap is very slow if user set the small cluster size
Redox OS Gets COSMIC Reader Working, Other Improvements To This Rust OS
Redox OS continues making progress for this original, from-scratch Rust open-source operating system. Some of the changes that took place over the past month included:
Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable
Instability issues have been somewhat common for the Nouveau driver usage but up until recently were hard to track down and reproduce. Fortunately, thanks to the stellar work of Faith Ekstrand and David Airlie, they managed to now address this in large part. Faith Ekstrand explained it's been a fencing bug where the