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KDE Gear 25.08 Released With Improvements For Many KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.08 is out this morning as the newest feature release to this collection of KDE applications...

2025-08-14 06:51

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AMDXDNA Improvements & New Rockchip NPU Accelerator Driver For Linux 6.18

Sent out today was the first DRM-Misc-Next pull request to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening around early October. There are a number of smaller DRM graphics driver improvements ready as well as continued work around the...

2025-08-14 06:36

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LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts

Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply h...

2025-08-14 06:22

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BeOS-Inspired Haiku Has Been Tackling File-System Issues, Better Wacom Tablet Support

Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made...

2025-08-14 06:13

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Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVID...

2025-08-14 05:58

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LVFS Asks Hardware Makers to Fund Future of Linux Firmware Updates

Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to firm up its future. Most vendors will see no change. You're reading LVFS Asks Hardware Makers to Fund Future of Linux Firmware Updates, a blog post from OMG! Ubunt...

2025-08-13 20:21

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Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It

Linux's firmware hub, the LVFS, announces a new funding model with quotas for vendors to firm up its future. Most vendors will see no change. You're reading Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...

2025-08-13 20:21

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Linux Foundation Newsletter: August 2025

Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter. This month, the Linux Foundation welcomed a groundbreaking project, expanded our India‑based open source footprint, and amplified developer collaboration across continents. Hig...

2025-08-13 17:00

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SR-IOV Will Only Be Supported On Intel Arc Pro Graphics Cards

SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards...

2025-08-13 16:36

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Linux Preps For New "SoC Power Slider" With Upcoming Panther Lake

While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks lik...

2025-08-13 15:18

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Linux Lands Fix For Early 6.17 Regression Causing 37~43% Performance Hit

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window was an optimization geared for ARM64 that could have a "16x reduction" in the number of calls. Unfortunately that commit ended up causing a rather significant regression for some systems that has now been address...

2025-08-13 14:51

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Google Develops KFuzzTest For Fuzzing Internal Linux Kernel Functions

Google engineers today introduced KFuzzTest as a new lightweight framework for in-kernel fuzz targets for internal kernel functions. KFuzzTest aims to make it easier to exercise Linux kernel code paths that are difficult to do from the system call boun...

2025-08-13 13:52

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Intel ISPC 1.28 Adds Optimized Support For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs

A new version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler "ISPC" was just published for supporting that C programming language variant optimized for single program. multiple data (SPMD) programming that is optimized for Intel's various hardware offerin...

2025-08-13 13:21

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Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"

The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source d...

2025-08-13 08:31

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Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System

It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of Reise...

2025-08-13 08:18

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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic spe...

2025-08-13 06:52

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WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges

Last week Microsoft released new versions of WSL2 for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability affecting their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 implementation. Those details around CVE-2025-53788 are now public for this vulnerability that could lead to e...

2025-08-13 06:41

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xf86-input-mouse 2.0.0 Released 12 Years After v1.9 Mouse Driver

The xf86-input-mouse driver for mouse support when using the X.Orrg Server on operating systems like the BSDs, Illumos, GNU Hurd, and Solaris is out with a rare update...

2025-08-13 06:30

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GCC Developers Discuss Dropping Poorly Supported, Niche CPU Architectures

Following the discussion over potentially obsoleting/deprecating the Itanium IA-64 support within the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), developers are discussing similar treatment for some of the other poorly-maintained CPU ports...

2025-08-13 06:15

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Orion Browser for Linux Now Has Working Tabs, Bookmarks

Work on the Linux port of Kagi’s privacy-focused Orion web browser just hit a new milestone, with the team updating interested users on the progress made in ‘Milestone 2’. “Since the completion of Milestone 1, the team has been focused on build...

2025-08-13 02:57

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