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Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default for Games without Native Linux Builds
Valve released a new stable Steam Client update on June 30th, 2025, to further improve gaming on Linux for games without native Linux builds. The post Steam Client Now Enables Proton by Default for Games without Native Linux Builds appeared first on 9...
2025-06-30 23:00
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce el...
2025-06-30 20:42
AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates
Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors "NomadicCore" and "Ermo" have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months...
2025-06-30 20:27
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel Brings Experimental Panther Lake Support
While Q2 is drawing to an end in the coming hours, Intel software engineers this evening just released the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2025Q1 update that provides all of their latest patches around Intel GPU/video acceleration for this widely-used, open-sou...
2025-06-30 19:24
digiKam 8.7 Adds New Tool to Perform Auto-Rotation Based on Content Analysis
digiKam 8.7 open-source professional photo management software is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post digiKam 8.7 Adds New Tool to Perform Auto-Rotation Based on Content Analysis appeared ...
2025-06-30 14:39
How to get a job at Canonical
If you’re interested in applying for a role at Canonical, it can help to have some insider guidance. A lot has been written on social media about Canonical and our hiring processes. Some of it is even true. I share responsibility for what we do, beca...
2025-06-30 11:57
Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive
Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive...
2025-06-30 11:56
The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10
AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing agains...
2025-06-30 10:20
KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol
KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support...
2025-06-30 08:55
AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues
Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into...
2025-06-30 07:07
It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release
Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from ...
2025-06-30 06:46
Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...
2025-06-30 06:23
Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages
A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...
2025-06-30 06:12
Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4
The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...
2025-06-30 06:02
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 29th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 140 ESR, KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15, GIMP 3.2, PipeWire 1.4.6, GStreamer 1.26.3, qBittorrent 5.1.1, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195, and more. The post 9to5Linux ...
2025-06-30 00:38
Rename Audio Devices on Ubuntu with this ‘Simple’ App
If you regularly switch between different sound sources on Ubuntu—which you can do from the Quick Settings menu—you’re probably used to seeing a list of audio devices with generic names that skew more technical than intelligible. E.g., Intel HDA ...
2025-06-29 22:40
Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...
2025-06-29 17:07
Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...
2025-06-29 10:33
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics
It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...
2025-06-29 08:50
Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland
Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...
2025-06-29 07:07