Linux

Ubuntu 25.04 Opens Development with Major Packaging Change
Ubuntu developers today announced that Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is officially open for development. There’s even a release date: Ubuntu 25.04 is out on April 17, 2025. Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching ou...
2024-10-30 20:59
AMD "Cleaner Shader" Coming For GFX11.0.3 GPUs To Help Ensure User/App Isolation
A new patch posted today for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is introducing a "cleaner shader" explicitly for GFX11.0.3 GPUs like the Radeon 780M integrated graphics to help ensure that there is sufficient data isolation between different workl...
2024-10-30 20:27
Audacity 3.7 Delivers Bug Fixes, Improves Compatibility with Linux
Music makers, podcast producers, and amateur audio enthusiasts alike will be pleased to hear a new version of Audacity is out – and it fixes a lot of bugs. Audacity 3.7.0 marks a new series of maintenance releases which will fix flaws, balm bugs, and...
2024-10-30 20:08
Audacity 3.7 Open-Source Audio Editor Is Out to Improve Linux Compatibility
Audacity 3.7 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with improved Linux compatibility and various bug fixes. Here's what's changed! The post Audacity 3.7 Open-Source Audio Editor Is Out to Improve Linux Co...
2024-10-30 18:22
Pre-Orders Open for Pine64’s e-Ink Linux Tablet
Forget Amazon’s recent Kindle refresh, the most exciting e-ink device around is the PineNote from prolific open-source hardware makers Pine64. I reported last month that Pine64 had confirmed a new PineNote production run, the first in several years, ...
2024-10-30 18:16
Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" Development Opens - Defaulting To -O3 Optimizations
Canonical has announced the formal state of the Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" development. Among other early changes are now defaulting to -O3 compiler optimizations rather than the default -O2 optimization level when building Debian packages...
2024-10-30 16:02
Mousam is a Detailed Desktop Weather App for Linux
Being a Linux nerd I rarely go outside —that’s a joke— but knowing what the weather is doing beyond my basement walls —still a joke— is useful – if only because it usually gives me an excuse to stay at my desk compiling my own kernel —not...
2024-10-30 15:03
Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value
Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better perf...
2024-10-30 12:00
OpenPaX Announced As "Open-Source Alternative To GrSecurity" With Free Kernel Patch
Enterprise security firm Edera today is announcing OpenPaX that they promoted in their advance press notice as a "new open-source alternative to GrSecurity." GrSecurity being the firm focused on providing out-of-tree Linux kernel patches focused in the...
2024-10-30 11:00
TUXEDO OS 4 Launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base and Linux Kernel 6.11
TUXEDO OS 4 distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.11 and KDE Plasma 6.1, based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS. Here's what's new! The post TUXEDO OS 4 Launches with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Base and Linux Kernel 6.11 appeared first on 9to...
2024-10-30 10:54
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - October 2024
This month, the rolling-release ran like a well-tuned engine as it powered through important updates and bug fixes with precision and speed. Updates were available for GNOME, systemd, qemu and more alongside important security patches. Various CVEs wer...
2024-10-30 09:00
Contribute at the Podman 5.3 Test Days
Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora befor...
2024-10-30 08:00
DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Support Being Extended To All Recent AMD GPUs
DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR c...
2024-10-30 06:23
RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance
The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver used by all modern AMD Radeon graphics hardware has landed support in Mesa 24.3 for async VCE/UVD video operations to enhance the performance with the widely-used FFmpeg multimedia library...
2024-10-30 06:09
VirtIO-GPU Vulkan Support Approaching Upstream QEMU
Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream...
2024-10-30 06:01
Wasmer 5.0 WebAssembly Runtime Released With V8, WAMR & WASMI Backends
Wasmer 5.0 is now available as the latest major update to this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime focused on being able to allow developers to write "universal apps" that will run anywhere thanks to the power and versatility of WebAssembly...
2024-10-30 05:48
Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Initial AI Feature
Shotcut 24.10 is now available as the latest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT framework, Qt6, FFmpeg, SDL, and other software components...
2024-10-30 05:38
Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Released with AI-Powered Speech to Text
Shotcut 24.10 open-source video editor is now available for download with a new AI-powered speech-to-text feature based on OpenAI's Whisper, as welll as other changes. Here's what's new! The post Shotcut 24.10 Open-Source Video Editor Released with AI-...
2024-10-30 01:30
ONLYOFFICE 8.2 Improves Startup Times, Adds New Theme + More
A big update to ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux is available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.2 offers a clutch of new features, several performance gains, and a miscellany of smaller enhancements acr...
2024-10-29 21:06
Intel Posts Updated Raptor Lake Microcode For Linux: Fixes Voltage Issue & Other Bugs
Intel off their typical second Tuesday of the month patch regiment today posted new CPU microcode just for 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" and 14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors for Linux systems. Notable with the updated Raptor Lake CPU microcode is the...
2024-10-29 20:36