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DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs
DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabl...
2025-07-05 11:45
SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI
SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other ch...
2025-07-05 09:12
Fedora 43 GNU & LLVM 21 Toolchain Updates Planned
It shouldn't be particularly surprising as Fedora Linux has always been known for shipping with a leading-edge compiler toolchain, but the formalities have now been submitted for Fedora 43 to ship with the latest GNU and LLVM toolchain components...
2025-07-05 09:00
Intel Wildcat Lake HID Support & Dell + ASUS Additions Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc5
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 kernel expected to be released tomorrow, a round of x86 platform driver updates were merged this week with several fixes as well as some new device additions...
2025-07-05 06:41
GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing
It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July...
2025-07-05 06:27
KDE Working On New Virtual Keyboard, Many Plasma Improvements Kick Off July
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week...
2025-07-05 06:13
Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake
Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel plat...
2025-07-04 20:18
Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions
The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...
2025-07-04 19:15
GPD MicroPC 2: Souped-Up Successor to Original Pocket PC
Everything receives a sequel eventually, and so it is so for the GPD MicroPC. A souped-up, second-gen successor to the small, serial-port-packing original goes on sale this summer. It boasts a bigger, brighter screen that rotates, a beefier Intel-based...
2025-07-04 15:26
Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...
2025-07-04 14:07
Travel Support Available for openSUSE.Asia Summit
The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 will take place from August 29 to 31 at MRIIRS in Faridabad, India, and we’re excited to welcome community members from across Asia and around the globe. To make the summit more accessible, the Travel Support Program (TS...
2025-07-04 13:00
Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...
2025-07-04 11:00
Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16
Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...
2025-07-04 09:18
🧱 Building better initramfs: A deep dive into dracut on Fedora & RHEL
Learn how to harness the full power of dracut, the modern tool behind Fedora and RHEL's boot process. This hands-on guide explores real-world scenarios, custom module configurations, and performance tuning tips for building better initramfs images.
2025-07-04 08:00
Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics
Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablem...
2025-07-04 07:00
Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers
The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is neede...
2025-07-04 06:30
Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA
The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/communi...
2025-07-04 06:19
Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...
2025-07-04 06:09
Open Source at the Crossroads of AI Opportunity and Cybersecurity Necessity
Each year, Open Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation, brings together people from around the world to learn, connect, and collaborate. As a Research Mentee, I had the amazing opportunity to attend this conference and see firstha...
2025-07-04 01:21
GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More
GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support. You're reading GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewh...
2025-07-03 22:59