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  9.   <title>OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Switching From AppArmor To SELinux For New Installations</title>
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  12.   <description>SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux)...</description>
  13.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:47:35 -0500</pubDate>
  14.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  17.   <title>Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Delayed To Next Week</title>
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  20.   <description>Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS along with new point releases for its derivatives had been scheduled for release on Thursday. But a last minute issue has delayed this release...</description>
  21.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:06:58 -0500</pubDate>
  22.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  28.   <description>Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler does a very good job at keeping even 400 Watt processors running well.</description>
  29.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
  30.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  33.   <title>Mesa 25.0-rc3 Released With Numerous RADV &amp; RadeonSI Fixes</title>
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  36.   <description>Mesa 25.0-rc3 is out today as a rather large weekly release candidate to Mesa 25.0 that will be debuting as stable later this month...</description>
  37.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:51:35 -0500</pubDate>
  38.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  41.   <title>Linux 6.13 Performance For 250Hz vs. 1000Hz Timer Frequency Comparison</title>
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  44.   <description>Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware...</description>
  45.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
  46.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  52.   <description>In addition to the recent release of SysVinit 3.14 and systemd continuing to tack on new features, the GNU Shepherd system/user service manager written in Guile Scheme is out today with a new release...</description>
  53.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
  54.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  57.   <title>Linux 6.15 To Bring More Improvements To DRM Panic &quot;Screen of Death&quot;</title>
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  61.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:52:00 -0500</pubDate>
  62.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  65.   <title>Intel C1 Demotion Knob Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Help Newer Xeon CPUs</title>
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  69.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:35:53 -0500</pubDate>
  70.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  76.   <description>The open-source Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan driver within Mesa known as "TURNIP" has now matured enough that it's going to be built by default when compiling Mesa for ARM64/AArch64 hardware...</description>
  77.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:30:36 -0500</pubDate>
  78.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  81.   <title>Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 Prepares For Panther Lake</title>
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  84.   <description>Intel on Tuesday released Thermal Daemon 2.5.9 as their newest feature release of this open-source daemon to help monitor and control the CPU/SoC temperature within laptops and other modern Intel hardware...</description>
  85.   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 06:21:46 -0500</pubDate>
  86.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  89.   <title>Python 3.14 Alpha 5 Released With New Tail-Call Interpreter</title>
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  92.   <description>Python 3.14 Alpha 5 is out today as the latest of many development releases in stepping toward the Python 3.14 stable release in October...</description>
  93.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:53:37 -0500</pubDate>
  94.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  97.   <title>Healthy Competition With GCC 15 vs. LLVM Clang 20 Performance On AMD Zen 5</title>
  98.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/review/clang20-gcc15-amd-znver5</link>
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  101.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
  102.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  105.   <title>Intel CPU Microcode Updated For Five New Security Issues</title>
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  108.   <description>Intel just published new CPU microcode for Alder Lake,  Emerald Rapids, Ice Lake, Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest, and other platforms going back to Coffee Lake H. There are five new security issues being addressed plus a number of different functional issues being resolved...</description>
  109.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:15:28 -0500</pubDate>
  110.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  113.   <title>GNOME 48 Now Allows Grouping Notifications By App</title>
  114.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Notifications-App</link>
  115.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Notifications-App</guid>
  116.   <description>While the GNOME 48 feature and UI freezes went into effect just a little more than one week ago, a freeze exception was granted for merging support in GNOME Shell for grouping notifications on a per-app basis...</description>
  117.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:18:31 -0500</pubDate>
  118.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  121.   <title>Ubuntu 25.04&#039;s GNOME Web Browser Will Be Able To Play More Web Videos By Default</title>
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  124.   <description>Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change...</description>
  125.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:54:26 -0500</pubDate>
  126.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  129.   <title>Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1</title>
  130.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Panfrost-Lands-OpenCL-C</link>
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  132.   <description>The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...</description>
  133.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
  134.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  137.   <title>FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding</title>
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  140.   <description>FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...</description>
  141.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:36:39 -0500</pubDate>
  142.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  145.   <title>KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling &amp; Other Enhancements</title>
  146.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.3-Released</link>
  147.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.3-Released</guid>
  148.   <description>Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...</description>
  149.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:44:48 -0500</pubDate>
  150.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  153.   <title>AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The &quot;flang-new&quot; Fortran Compiler Option</title>
  154.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOMP-20.0-2</link>
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  156.   <description>AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware...</description>
  157.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:24:22 -0500</pubDate>
  158.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  161.   <title>BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver</title>
  162.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-2025-January</link>
  163.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-2025-January</guid>
  164.   <description>The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...</description>
  165.   <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:13:07 -0500</pubDate>
  166.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  169.   <title>Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP</title>
  170.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-disk-image-boot-HTTP</link>
  171.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-disk-image-boot-HTTP</guid>
  172.   <description>Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...</description>
  173.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:43:09 -0500</pubDate>
  174.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  177.   <title>Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance</title>
  178.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-ForkServer-Linux-Nears</link>
  179.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-ForkServer-Linux-Nears</guid>
  180.   <description>Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win...</description>
  181.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:11:29 -0500</pubDate>
  182.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  185.   <title>Intel&#039;s Newest Open-Source Project Is &quot;Polite Guard&quot;</title>
  186.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Polite-Guard</link>
  187.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Polite-Guard</guid>
  188.   <description>Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...</description>
  189.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
  190.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  193.   <title>Apple Touch Bar Backlight &amp; Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15</title>
  194.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Touch-Bar-Linux-6.15</link>
  195.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Touch-Bar-Linux-6.15</guid>
  196.   <description>For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...</description>
  197.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:18:22 -0500</pubDate>
  198.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  201.   <title>GIMP 3.0 RC3 Released For A Final Round Of Testing</title>
  202.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-RC3-Released</link>
  203.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-RC3-Released</guid>
  204.   <description>GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...</description>
  205.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 10:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
  206.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  209.   <title>Python 3.14 Lands A New Interpreter With 3~30% Faster Python Code</title>
  210.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.14-New-Interpreter</link>
  211.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.14-New-Interpreter</guid>
  212.   <description>Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can even outperform the current Python JIT compiler but for maximum performance benefits Python should be built with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO)...</description>
  213.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 09:02:30 -0500</pubDate>
  214.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  217.   <title>Union Hopes To Address KDE&#039;s Fragmented Ways Of Styling Apps</title>
  218.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Union-Hopes-Unified-Styling</link>
  219.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Union-Hopes-Unified-Styling</guid>
  220.   <description>KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less cohesive user experience. KDE developer Arjen Hiemstra is hoping to change that with the Union project...</description>
  221.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
  222.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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  225.   <title>Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration</title>
  226.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-Repo-Configuration</link>
  227.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-Repo-Configuration</guid>
  228.   <description>You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest feature...</description>
  229.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:28:26 -0500</pubDate>
  230.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
  231.  </item>
  232.  <item>
  233.   <title>New Proposal To Raise The Linux Kernel&#039;s Default Timer Frequency To 1000Hz</title>
  234.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2025-Proposal-1000Hz</link>
  235.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2025-Proposal-1000Hz</guid>
  236.   <description>A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...</description>
  237.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:43:50 -0500</pubDate>
  238.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
  239.  </item>
  240.  <item>
  241.   <title>RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low Latency Encoding Support</title>
  242.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Vulkan-Video-Low-Latency</link>
  243.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Vulkan-Video-Low-Latency</guid>
  244.   <description>Adding to the Vulkan Video support for Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is honoring of the low latency encoding options...</description>
  245.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:31:42 -0500</pubDate>
  246.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
  247.  </item>
  248.  <item>
  249.   <title>Microsoft Continues Enhancing Its Azure Linux 3.0 Distribution With February Update</title>
  250.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.20250206</link>
  251.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.20250206</guid>
  252.   <description>Microsoft engineers released Azure Linux 3.0.20250206 overnight as the newest monthly update to this in-house Microsoft Linux distribution that is used within their Azure cloud infrastructure and a variety of other purposes at the Redmond company...</description>
  253.   <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:07:20 -0500</pubDate>
  254.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
  255.  </item>
  256.  <item>
  257.   <title>Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes</title>
  258.   <link>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-rc2-Released</link>
  259.   <guid>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-rc2-Released</guid>
  260.   <description>The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week...</description>
  261.   <pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:12:43 -0500</pubDate>
  262.   <dc:creator>Michael Larabel</dc:creator>
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