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How to rebase to Fedora Silverblue 42 Beta
Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article...
2025-03-18 18:00
Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for As...
2025-03-18 16:51
Ubuntu Developers Discuss Abandoning Mailing Lists For Discourse
Ubuntu developers decided a few months back to switch from IRC to Matrix for real-time communication needs. The newest fundamental shift being discussed by Ubuntu developers is shifting from mailing list discussions to Ubuntu Discourse for mailing list...
2025-03-18 16:28
Blender 4.4 Released with a Big Update for the Experimental Vulkan Backend
Blender 4.4 open-source 3D graphics creation software is now available for download with new features and numerous improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post Blender 4.4 Released with a Big Update for the Experimental Vulkan Backend appeared first o...
2025-03-18 16:12
BLAKE3 1.7 Turns To Intel's oneTBB For Parallelizing C Code - Similar Perf To Rust+Rayon
BLAKE3 as the cryptographic hashing function that is much faster than the likes of SHA-1/SHA-1 while being more secure than SHA-1 and MD5 is out with a new feature update. BLAKE3 v1.7 is now available for the official C and Rust code as the reference i...
2025-03-18 15:09
Vivaldi 7.2 Released with Speed Improvements + More
A big Vivaldi web browser update is rolling out with a set of appreciable improvements long-time users will like, and would-be users may be tempted to try. Vivaldi 7.2 amps up its address bar logic to proffer more relevant results, faster. Search sugge...
2025-03-18 15:01
Final Draft Of PCI Express 7.0 Specification Published
The full PCI Express 7.0 specification remains on track for publishing later this year while out today is version 0.9 of the specification as the planned final draft...
2025-03-18 14:22
Fedora Linux 42 Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48
Fedora Linux 42 distribution is now available for public beta testing powered by Linux kernel 6.14 and featuring the GNOME 48 desktop environment. Here’s what to expect from the final release. The post Fedora Linux 42 Enters Public Beta Testing with ...
2025-03-18 14:05
Announcing Fedora Linux 42 Beta
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots to share with you about our upcoming release of Fedora Linux 42, and we want to give you a sneak preview of what’s in this release in the beta version ...
2025-03-18 14:05
Announcing Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta
We are happy to announce the availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta. This pre-release will bring the freshly announced Fedora Linux 42 Beta to Apple Silicon Macs. We expect to announce general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 42 in about a month....
2025-03-18 14:03
Blender 4.4 Released With Vulkan Improvements & AMD HIP RT No Longer Experimental
Blender 4.4 is out today as the newest version of this incredible, open-source 3D modeling software...
2025-03-18 11:38
OpenJDK Java 24 Released With Garbage Collector Improvements, Deprecating x86 32-bit
Along with the GraalVM 24 update today, Oracle has formally released OpenJDK Java 24. JDK 24 is now out under general availability status with many new features and changes...
2025-03-18 10:43
Fedora 42 Beta Released With Countless Improvements
The beta of Fedora Linux 42 is out this morning with countless improvements over the prior release. There is the near-final GNOME 48 desktop packages and a whole host of other software updates for living on the leading-edge of open-source software as w...
2025-03-18 10:12
Linux Kernel's Zstd Code Gets A Co-Maintainer
Hopefully leading to more timely updates to the Zstd compression code within the Linux kernel is a decision to add on a co-maintainer of the in-kernel Zstandard code...
2025-03-18 09:07
GraalVM Updated For Java 24, Adds Graal Neural Network Profiler For Better Performance
Ahead of the OpenJDK Java 24 release expected in the coming hours today, Oracle already released "GraalVM for JDK 24 Community 24.0" edition...
2025-03-18 09:00
ARM64 SMT Run-Time Controls Staged Ahead Of Linux 6.15
If you happen to have a rare ARM64 platform with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) support, with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel there is set to finally be run-time SMT controls similar to the functionality long available on x86/x86_64 processors...
2025-03-18 06:47
Theora 1.2 Beta Released After 16 Years
Theora is Xiph.Org's first released video codec designed for use with Ogg. Theora started out based on the VP3 codec. It's been over 16 years since the release of the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation and tagged this week was libtheora 1....
2025-03-18 06:31
ollama 0.6.2 Released WIth Support For AMD Strix Halo
The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run Llama 3, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models is out with its newest release. The ollama software makes it easy to leverage the llama.cpp back-end for running a variety of LLMs ...
2025-03-18 06:15
GIMP 3.0 Finally Released with a HUGE Set of Changes
Good things come to those who wait, and heck knows we’ve been waiting a while for GIMP 3.0 to be released — but rejoice: a stable release of GIMP 3.0 is finally available to download. With 7 years of development bundled up inside, the list of chang...
2025-03-17 20:08
Enlightenment 0.27.1 Desktop Is Out to Improve the CPUFreq and Battery Modules
Enlightenment 0.27.1 desktop environment is out now with battery, CPUfreq, system tray, client menu, file manager, and mixer improvements. The post Enlightenment 0.27.1 Desktop Is Out to Improve the CPUFreq and Battery Modules appeared first on 9to5Lin...
2025-03-17 18:52