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Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year's LTS Kernel - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Goes-LTS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Goes-LTS
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Linux 6.6 Formally Becomes This Year's LTS Kernel
As was expected but now made official: this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel is Linux 6.6.
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Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager Introduces New Notes Feature, Support for Audio EPUBs - 9to5Linux
https://9to5linux.com/calibre-7-0-e-book-manager-introduces-new-notes-feature-support-for-audio-epubs
https://9to5linux.com/calibre-7-0-e-book-manager-introduces-new-notes-feature-support-for-audio-epubs
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Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager Introduces New Notes Feature, Support for Audio EPUBs - 9to5Linux
Calibre 7.0 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with a new Notes feature, support for Audio EPUB books, and more.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8 - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-DRM-V3D-RPi5
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-DRM-V3D-RPi5
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Raspberry Pi 5 Kernel Graphics Driver Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.8
An initial set of drm-misc-next changes has been sent out today to DRM-Next of the very first feature patches to begin queuing until the Linux 6.8 merge window opens up around the start of the new year.
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See System Resource Usage in Ubuntu's Top Panel - OMG! Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/systemstatsplus-system-monitor-gnome-extension
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/systemstatsplus-system-monitor-gnome-extension
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See Real-Time System Resource Usage in Ubuntuβs Top Panel
We're not short of system monitoring tools for Ubuntu, with an array of desktop apps, extensions, widgets, Conky scripts, and command-line tools readily
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Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-120-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new
https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-120-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new
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Lenovo Prepares The Linux Kernel For "Ultra-Performance Capability" On Latest ThinkPads
A recently posted Linux kernel driver patch by Lenovo is for a new 'ultra-performance capability' with their latest ThinkPad laptops for ensuring their hardware achieves the best Linux performance when in the 'performance' ACPI Platform Profile while conservingβ¦
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Lenovo Prepares The Linux Kernel For "Ultra-Performance Capability" On Latest ThinkPads
A recently posted Linux kernel driver patch by Lenovo is for a new 'ultra-performance capability' with their latest ThinkPad laptops for ensuring their hardware achieves the best Linux performance when in the 'performance' ACPI Platform Profile while conservingβ¦
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The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers
Back during the Linux 6.3 kernel support for a number of legacy DRM drivers was removed and now patches have been volleyed for taking things one step further by now eliminating the infrastructure for supporting these older user-space mode-setting graphics/displayβ¦
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64-bit ARM Linux Kernel Against CPU-Specific Optimizations: "Pretty Unmaintainable"
While micro-architecture specific optimizations are rather common place within the Linux x86_64 kernel for various Intel and AMD CPU families with various performance tricks, the ARM64 Linux kernel maintainers are against introducing new micro-architectureβ¦
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GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule
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GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May
GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well.
Eben Upton Hints at an RP2040 Successor, Promises a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 in 2024
https://www.hackster.io/news/eben-upton-hints-at-an-rp2040-successor-promises-a-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-in-2024-ec331994aca3
https://www.hackster.io/news/eben-upton-hints-at-an-rp2040-successor-promises-a-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-in-2024-ec331994aca3
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Eben Upton Hints at an RP2040 Successor, Promises a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 in 2024
"We know what people don't like [and] what people do like," Upton says, "and we have a chip team."