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OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux
OpenRazer 3.9 is out today as the newest version of this community project providing open-source driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux. This out-of-tree set of Linux kernel drivers allows for various Razer devices to be configured and fully lev...
2024-10-06 06:15
Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered
Linus Torvalds merged the newest round of fixes to the experimental Bcachefs file-system, but it's left Linux creator Linus Torvalds frustrated and he's presented two choices for the file-system moving forward due to the continued LKML drama...
2024-10-05 20:24
The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate
The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future...
2024-10-05 13:12
Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops
It's been a long journey to see good web camera support for Intel Alder Lake and newer designs making use of the IPU6 imaging IP. But with Fedora 41 due for release in the coming weeks, there will finally be good out-of-the-box, open-source support for...
2024-10-05 09:42
Linux 6.12 Patches Neoverse-N3 & Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 For Speculative SSBS
We are not done yet seeing new Arm cores still impacted by the Speculative Store Bypass handling errata. Merged to Linux 6.12 on Friday was adding the speculative SSBS workaround for the Cortex-A715, Neoverse-N3, and Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 cores...
2024-10-05 08:53
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 Delivers RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup & Direct IO
OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 is now available for testing as the next major feature release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
2024-10-05 06:35
SDL 3.1.3 Stable ABI Preview Release
Sam Lantinga released SDL 3.1.3 on Friday as their "stable ABI preview" version ahead of the SDL 3.2.0 stable release. The developer at Valve notes that SDL3 has already been "battle tested by millions of people in DOTA, CS2 and Steam" and they are now...
2024-10-05 06:20
KDE Plasma 6.2 Preparing For Release Next Week
KDE developers have been putting the finishing touches on the Plasma 6.2 desktop as it prepares to release next week. Plasma 6.2 will be out on Tuesday barring any last minute issues...
2024-10-05 06:11
Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland
We are quickly working our way to the end of the calendar year where Wine 9.xx bi-weekly development releases will focus on a shift to stability for releasing Wine 10.0 in early 2025. But we're not there yet and Wine 9.19 is out today to deliver the ne...
2024-10-04 20:29
Contribute at the Fedora CoreOS and IoT Test Week
Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux 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...
2024-10-04 16:51
Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator caters to a variety of edge-to-cloud industries. While the Qualcomm Cloud AI hardware isn't talked about as much as the AI accelerators from other vendors, there is the QAIC driver within the mainline Linux kernel ...
2024-10-04 16:10
NetworkManager 1.50 Released, Supports Veth Config in CLI
A new version of NetworkManager – used by most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) to manage wired and wireless network connections – was released this week. NetworkManager 1.50 won’t be included in Ubuntu 24.10 (that ships with v1.48) but I t...
2024-10-04 14:35
NetworkManager 1.50 Released, Supports veth Config in Terminal UI
A new version of NetworkManager – used by most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) to manage wired and wireless network connections – was released this week. NetworkManager 1.50 won’t be included in Ubuntu 24.10 (that ships with v1.48) but I t...
2024-10-04 14:35
Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes
Fwupd 2.0 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for new devices, numerous new features and improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major ...
2024-10-04 13:48
Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted
Intel's Linux engineers continue working on preparing for next-generation hardware support within the kernel well ahead of launch. The latest on the recent enablement around next-gen Panther Lake processors is enabling a new "5th Gen" neural processing...
2024-10-04 13:42
AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators
Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteo...
2024-10-04 12:41
Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
Ardour 8.8 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements. Here's what's changed! The post Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements appeared first on 9to5Li...
2024-10-04 11:05
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI
The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued fundi...
2024-10-04 10:00
Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes...
2024-10-04 09:41
Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering
Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
2024-10-04 08:58