APT 3.3.5 improves dependency solver performance by up to 20%, reduces page faults by 65%, and updates repository signing-key handling. The APT package manager, used by Debian, Ubuntu, and other Debian-based Linux distributions to install, update, and remove software, has been updated to…
Paru 2.2 adds pacman 7.1 compatibility, new AUR package filtering options, improved search results, and dependency resolution fixes. Paru, the Rust-based AUR helper for Arch Linux, has been updated to version 2.2, more than a year after version 2.1, released in July 2025. One main…
The Linux kernel's "macsmc" driver was developed for supporting the system management controller (SMC) on Apple Silicon Macs for supporting the light sensor, fan control, and other sensors. That macsmc driver now is seeing work to extend it for better…
Vulkan 1.4.367 is out this morning as the newest spec revision for this high performance graphics and compute API... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12 Michael Larabel is…
The I3C changes for Linux 7.4 were submitted this week by Bootlin's Alexandre Belloni and subsequently merged... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4 Michael Larabel is…
Following Xbox's continued revenue decline this past quarter, CEO Asha Sharma tried to focus on the positives (like record sales of Minecraft and World of Warcraft Forever), but Circana analyst Mat Piscatella has painted a rather troubling picture of Sharma's…
NVIDIA seems to have finalized the launch timeframe of its next big RTX 50 launch: the 24 GB GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card. Over the past few months, we have heard a lot about the 24 GB GeForce RTX 5080 that NVIDIA is preparing for…
Plus, Fortnite Linux news and anti-cheat requirements The Internet has not been kind to the new Epic Games Launcher. If you want to find out if the roasting is earned, you can try it out on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or later.
The 10 nm process gave Intel quite a bit of a headache in the past few years. It was supposed to arrive in 2017 initially, but the fabrication process had to be delayed because of design problems, and it looks like Intel…
The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization…
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