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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Linux 7.2

« Last post by tle on August 17, 2026, 12:20:24 am »

So what's new?

* initial HDMI 2.1 FRL support to the AMDGPU driver -- so far no regression found yet, amdgpu works as expected
* support for devres-based management of ACPI notify handlers
* initial CRI platform support for the Intel Xe driver
* Rust support for the IBM System/390 (S/390) architecture
* Fair(er) GPU scheduler
* improves the new NTFS filesystem introduced in Linux kernel 7.1
and many more changes

Not much changes related to ppc64

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User Zone / Re: problems uploading photos

« Last post by MauryG5 on August 16, 2026, 08:35:02 am »

So there was indeed a problem, well then I will soon try to upload a photo reduced in size to make it fit within the limits as usual and see if I can do it this time, I will update the discussion in case there are problems thanks.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by Hasturtium on August 14, 2026, 12:38:56 pm »

Has the JIT made it into trunk for ppc64le yet? I am starting to run into dumb issues with anti-bot verification, and would love to use Fedora's provided Firefox for simplicity.

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User Zone / Re: problems uploading photos

« Last post by SiteAdmin on August 14, 2026, 09:22:29 am »

We have resolved a problem with the attachment storage and uploads should now be working again.  Apologies for the issues!

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User Zone / Re: problems uploading photos

« Last post by MauryG5 on August 13, 2026, 12:30:04 pm »

I can tell you that the error always refers to the size of the image, I use the resolution reduction to drastically reduce the file size, and yet nothing is wrong, I've always done it this way and up until now it has always worked, now for some time now I can't do it anymore, I don't understand...

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User Zone / Re: problems uploading photos

« Last post by DrNo7 on August 11, 2026, 11:44:09 pm »

It is possible that the "file too big" error refers to the resolution of the picture and not its size on disk. But usually, the error message should contain details about the max resolution supported.
Depending on the type of content (regular picture or avatar), you may be able to guess based on common or conservative values 🤔

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« Last post by tle on August 11, 2026, 10:14:29 pm »

https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox-ppc64/releases/tag/FIREFOX_153_0_4_RELEASE_PPC64 has also added support for PowerPC970 (G4/G5). I have tested it on Debian Linux running on my POWER9 box and had 2 folks in the ArchPOWER side to help with the verification with their G5 however I am not 100% certain that it would perfectly on native hardware (PowerMac G4)

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« Last post by daedalao on August 10, 2026, 05:22:04 pm »

I linked the wrong repo originally, apologies.

Edit:

This video was tested with the currently available git repo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtqy8X04fa8

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User Zone / problems uploading photos

« Last post by MauryG5 on August 10, 2026, 12:44:06 pm »

Guys, I'm having a problem uploading photos. Even though I reduce the file size to less than 1MB, I use files around 500 KB or so. The site keeps telling me they're too big and won't let me upload them, even though I've always used files of that size. I've even tried smaller files than 500 KB, but the result is always the same. Can anyone tell me what's going on? I've tried contacting the site administrator twice, but I've never received a response.

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Blackbird / Re: My Blackbird and Fractal Design Meshify C arrived yesterday

« Last post by isengaara on August 09, 2026, 01:22:46 pm »

https://isengaara.de/u/isengaara/m/raubvogel-computer-der-schwarze-vogel-1/
https://isengaara.de/u/isengaara/m/raubvogel-computer-der-schwarze-vogel-2/

Still have to buy SATA-cables and 4-pin ARBG fans for the Blackbird
To control the ARGB LEDs I plan to use a custom RP2040 board.