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Intel FRED Suffers A Late "Incompatible Change" To The Architecture
Intel FRED has been seeing Linux software enablement going on for the past three years. FRED is the Flexible Return Event Delivery that overhauls CPU transitions between privilege levels with a goal of lower ring transition latency and more robust soft...
2025-08-15 08:24
DM-PCACHE Poised For Linux 6.18 As High Throughput, Low Latency DAX Cache
Barring any issues from coming up in the near future, it looks like DM-PCACHE will be submitted for the Linux 6.18 cycle later in the year as a high throughput, low latency cache for DAX-capable persistent memory devices...
2025-08-15 08:01
Generic VFIO Platform Driver To Be Marked As Deprecated For Removal
Some old and unmaintained drivers for Linux's Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) support are being marked as deprecated for eventual removal, including the generic VFIO platform driver...
2025-08-15 06:34
AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux
One of the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) patch series that has long been in the works is on a standardized Color Pipeline API. This is for improving advanced color management handling on Linux and aligns with what Valve and Igalia engineers have...
2025-08-15 06:21
Ubuntu 25.10 Enters Its Feature Freeze Period
As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October...
2025-08-15 06:06
Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues
Ghostty terminal has undergone a GTK rewrite, embracing the GObject type system. The result: new features, better memory management, and improved stability. You're reading Ghostty Terminal Rewrites its GTK Build to Fix Linux Issues, a blog post from OM...
2025-08-15 02:09
VirtualBox 7.2 Release Brings Big UI Change, Better ARM Support
VirtualBox 7.2.0 brings hardware-accelerated video decoding for Linux hosts, a rejigged interface, and support for running Windows on ARM. You're reading VirtualBox 7.2 Release Brings Big UI Change, Better ARM Support, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do ...
2025-08-14 21:02
Canonical launches general availability of Ubuntu for Qualcomm Dragonwing Platforms
This release brings certified Ubuntu to Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, accelerating time to market for ODMs/OEMs
2025-08-14 19:28
TrueNAS 25.10 Begins Testing With Faster Performance, 400GbE Networking
The folks at iXsystems announced this afternoon that nightly builds of TrueNAS 25.10 are now available for testing of this Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) operating system. With TrueNAS 25.10 there are more performance improvements, improved...
2025-08-14 19:13
Valkey 9.0-rc1 Taps AVX-512 For String-To-Integer Conversion For ~19% Gain
The open-source Valkey key-value database that is forked from Redis is preparing for the big Valkey 9.0 feature release. Valkey 9.0-rc1 was issued today and comes with some exciting performance optimizations and other enhancements for this in-memory KV...
2025-08-14 16:46
VirtualBox 7.2 Officially Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.17
VirtualBox 7.2 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with initial support for Linux kernel 6.17 and 6.16. Here's what else is new! The post VirtualBox 7.2 Officially Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.17 appea...
2025-08-14 16:34
Ubuntu 25.10 Continues Preparing For RISC-V RVA23 Baseline Requirement
Canonical is pursuing a rather ambitious baseline of Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V too require the RVA23 profile that will leave most existing RISC-V developer boards to using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 25.04. They continue to pursue this RISC-V baseline and wit...
2025-08-14 15:21
Fuzzy Application Search Extension for GNOME Works with your Typos
I am what I like to call an “inattentive typist”. Anything I enter with a keyboard, be it a blog post, chat reply, or search term is hammered out at thunderous pace – slower than the speed of my thoughts, but as garbled once externalised! Thing i...
2025-08-14 15:17
A New Fuzzy Application Search Extension for GNOME Shell
I am what I choose to call an ‘inattentive typist’, and when trying to launch apps in GNOME Shell, my spelling errors slow me down. GNOME Shell is a “stickler for specificity”. You must type what you’re looking for in the overview search box ...
2025-08-14 15:17
Fuzzy Application Search Extension for GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell search asks for perfect spelling, but fuzzy search extensions let you find apps even with typos – and a new one has just appeared to help. You're reading Fuzzy Application Search Extension for GNOME Shell, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do...
2025-08-14 15:17
SparkyLinux 8.0 Is Out as One of the First Distros Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
SparkyLinux 8.0 is now available for download as one of the first stable distributions based on the Debian 13 "Trixies" operating system series. Here's what's new! The post SparkyLinux 8.0 Is Out as One of the First Distros Based on Debian 13 “Trixi...
2025-08-14 13:15
VirtualBox 7.2 Released With Windows 11 ARM Support, Linux 6.16 Compatibility
Oracle today released VirtualBox 7.2 as the newest version of this cross-platform virtualization solution...
2025-08-14 12:50
KDE Gear 25.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released with Many Improvements
KDE Gear 25.08 open-source software suite is now available with improvements for many of your favorite KDE applications. Here's what's new! The post KDE Gear 25.08 Open-Source Software Suite Released with Many Improvements appeared first on 9to5Linux ...
2025-08-14 10:26
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX Performance With TRX50 + Quad Channel DDR5
The newly-launched AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series headlined by the 64-core Threadripper 9980X and 32-core Threadripper 9970X offer incredible performance and a wonderful addition to the Zen 5 family for the HEDT space. But there is also the Threadr...
2025-08-14 09:00
Intel's Habana Labs / Gaudi Accelerator Driver Maintainer Is Leaving The Company
One of the latest departures from Intel amid their ongoing restructuring is the official maintainer of the "habanalabs" accelerator Linux kernel driver that provides support for their range of Gaudi AI accelerator products...
2025-08-14 08:20