Tag: software
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GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs
GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we’re not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2. GIMP 3.0.2 is out to address bugs that have come up…
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Linux 6.15 on Apple SoCs
More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhoneWritten by Michael Larabel Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple’s T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were…
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Fedora supports RISC-V
Fedora Linux Now Supports RISC-V Processors The Fedora Linux project is “jumping on the RISC-V train,” joining other Linux distributions in supporting the emerging CPU architecture. RISC-V is an open-standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), intended as an alternative to the x86 architecture used in most desktop and laptops, and the ARM architecture used in most…
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Could Linux Lower Energy Use?
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux “could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,” according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. “… It’s the code that processes packets of network traffic, and Linux “is the most widely used…
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32-bit OS Alive and Well
x86 32-bit Operating Systems Aren’t Dead Yet: New Linux Patches Improve 32-bit PAE. The Linux x86 32-bit PAE kernel support for Physical Address Extensions allows addressing more than 4GB of memory for those still running 32-bit processors or otherwise opting to still run a 32-bit OS. While the Linux x86 32-bit specific code rarely sees…
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Linux Kernel Doubles in Size
Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade. Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1. It seemed inevitable that the Linux kernel sources would expand beyond 40 million lines early this year. Linux 6.13 was released early in January 2025, with 39,819,522 lines, and…
