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FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option

The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

2025-07-22 20:24

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Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported

The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...

2025-07-22 18:00

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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-...

2025-07-22 13:18

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Apple Silicon SoC/DT Changes Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Sven Peter today sent out all of the Apple SoC driver and DeviceTree (DT) updates aiming for the soon-to-happen Linux 6.17 merge window...

2025-07-22 13:03

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A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops

While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstre...

2025-07-22 10:08

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Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

2025-07-22 08:47

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AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs

A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...

2025-07-22 06:52

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Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver

Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs o...

2025-07-22 06:33

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Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes

LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...

2025-07-22 06:12

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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting

A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setti...

2025-07-22 00:00

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Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa

Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...

2025-07-21 18:05

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AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as...

2025-07-21 16:50

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NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source

Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helpin...

2025-07-21 11:54

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AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2

With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with R...

2025-07-21 10:30

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EROFS Implementing Metadata Compression For Even Smaller Image Sizes

The EROFS read-only file-system ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window has been working on metadata compression support to allow for even smaller container image sizes but at the cost of higher I/O latency...

2025-07-21 08:46

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The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History

Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance --...

2025-07-21 07:00

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LLVM Begins Landing Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" Support

The LLVM compiler toolchain has begun upstreaming support for Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" as a new means of handling ThinLTO compilations for leveraging link-time optimizations...

2025-07-21 06:30

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Around 8% Of Debian Source Packages Are Building Against Rust Libraries

At last week's DebConf25 Debian developer conference in France, Rust packaging within Debian Linux was talked about by Fabian Grünbichler. There an interesting statistic was shared around the growing expanse of Rust usage within Debian and the open-so...

2025-07-21 06:18

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HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements

HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Goog...

2025-07-21 06:00

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Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

2025-07-21 05:55

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