Linux

Wine 10.0-rc1 Released With Updated VKD3D, Initial Bluetooth Driver
The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January...
2024-12-06 16:04
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Released with Simplified and Smoother Upgrades
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 distribution for containerized and virtualized workloads is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new! The post openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Released with Simplified and Smoother Upgrades appear...
2024-12-06 15:48
NVK Open-Source Driver for NVIDIA GPUs Reaches Vulkan 1.4 Conformance
Collabora announced this week that its open-source NVK Vulkan graphics driver in the Mesa open-source graphics stack for NVIDIA hardware is now officially conformant with … The post NVK Open-Source Driver for NVIDIA GPUs Reaches Vulkan 1.4 Conformanc...
2024-12-06 15:16
Leap Micro 6.1 fficially Released
The openSUSE community is excited to announce the official release of [Leap Micro 6.1]((https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/6.1/). Leap Micro continues its alignment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, ensuring robust container and virtual machine hosting...
2024-12-06 13:00
Leap Micro 6.1 Officially Released
The openSUSE community is excited to announce the official release of [Leap Micro 6.1]((https://get.opensuse.org/leapmicro/6.1/). Leap Micro continues its alignment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, ensuring robust container and virtual machine hosting...
2024-12-06 13:00
Linux 6.13 Features: AutoFDO+Propeller Optimizations, Many AMD Additions & SDUC + NVMe 2.1 Support
With the Linux 6.13 merge window having ended this past weekend, here's the Phoronix overview of all the interesting feature additions, new hardware support, and other kernel changes coming for Linux 6.13.
2024-12-06 12:56
Fwupd 2.0.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Power Quirk for Framework Laptops
Fwupd 2.0.3 Linux firmware updater utility is now available for download with power quirk for Framework laptops, support for the Primax Ryder mouse, and other changes. The post Fwupd 2.0.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Power Quirk for Framework Laptops a...
2024-12-06 12:25
Box64 v0.3.2 Emulator Adds Box32 Option, Introduces Native Flags & More
Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices. Box64 is one of the leading ways for allowing x86_64 games and Steam to be able to run on AR...
2024-12-06 11:28
Linux Preps For Kunpeng ARM Server SoC With High Bandwidth Memory
New Linux patches from Huawei engineers are preparing new driver support for controlling High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) with the ARM-based Kunpeng high performance SoC...
2024-12-06 10:03
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 Brings Nice Improvements To This Lightweight Linux OS
openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is now available as the newest version of this lightweight Linux operating system built for containerized environments and virtualized workloads...
2024-12-06 08:48
Fwupd 2.0.3 Delivers Latest Firmware Updating Capabilities For Linux Systems
Fwupd 2.0 debuted back in October while out today is Fwupd 2.0.3 as the newest incremental update to this open-source solution for updating system and device firmware under Linux...
2024-12-06 08:38
Contribute at the IPA Migrate Test Day
The IDM/IPA team is working on testing the new IPA (Identity Policy Audit) migrate feature and functionality. As a result, the Identity Management and QA teams have organized a test day on Monday, December 09, 2024. The wiki page in this article contai...
2024-12-06 08:00
Fedora 42 Eyes Replacing SDL2 With sdl2-compat To Leverage SDL3
The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software. Fedora 42 is eyeing the possibility of replacing SDL2 with the sdl2-compat code so that by way of this compatibility layer the newer SDL3 version will ultimately be used instea...
2024-12-06 06:58
Broadcom BCM2712 MOPLET Graphics For Linux 6.14, Other Early drm-misc-next Code
While the Linux v6.13 merge window has been over for less than one week, already the first pull requests of new feature code are being submitted to DRM-Next for queuing the display/graphics driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window in two mon...
2024-12-06 06:43
AMD P-State Driver Improvements Getting Ready For Linux 6.14
While Linux 6.13-rc1 was only released this past Sunday and there is around two months to go until the start of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle, AMD P-State driver improvements are already beginning to collect for this next kernel cycle...
2024-12-06 06:27
MGLRU Sees New Performance Optimizations For Linux
It's been a while since there have been any new advancements or performance optimizations to talk about for Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel two years ago as a very exciting kernel innovation. But that's changing now with s...
2024-12-06 06:19
Latest COSMIC Desktop Alpha Adds New Options, VRR Support
Development on COSMIC, a new open-source desktop environment created by developers a Linux-based hardware company System76, continues at pace, with a 4th alpha now available. System76 said new alpha releases of the COSMIC DE would roughly appear once a...
2024-12-05 23:15
Shaping the Future of Generative AI
Innovation and GenAI: Open source, cloud-powered, and transforming industries  Since ChatGPT became a household name just over two years ago, it’s indisputable that Generative AI (GenAI) has ushered in a new era of technological transformation, cha...
2024-12-05 21:10
Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Use GCC 15 As Well As Exploring Greater LLVM Use
Canonical's Matthieu Clemenceau as the Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Foundations Team has provided a public roadmap around some of the plans for Ubuntu 25.04. This next Ubuntu Linux (non-LTS) release that is due out in April is set to enjoy more ...
2024-12-05 20:30