Linux

Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers
A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development...
2025-03-16 06:27
Debian Med Sprint in Berlin
Debian Med sprint in Berlin on 15 and 16 February The Debian Med team works on software packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences, and makes them available for the Debian distribution. Seven Debian developers ...
2025-03-16 00:00
Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Released with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is now available for download as a new point release to Debian 12 "Bookworm" with 66 bug fixes and 43 security updates. The post Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Released with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-03-15 21:18
Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 "Bookworm" Linux distribution release...
2025-03-15 19:30
digiKam 8.6 Released with Many Face Management Updates and Improvements
digiKam 8.6 open-source photo management software is now available for download with face management improvements and color label usability. Here’s what’s new! The post digiKam 8.6 Released with Many Face Management Updates and Improvements appeare...
2025-03-15 12:26
Paid XR Desktop For GNOME "Breezy Desktop" In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support
The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with it...
2025-03-15 10:51
ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack... But No Sound Due To Bugs
It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a ne...
2025-03-15 10:26
Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14
The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel...
2025-03-15 10:16
OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux
OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a fe...
2025-03-15 08:00
digiKam 8.6 Released With Working To Better Its AI Integration
The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration...
2025-03-15 06:45
KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...
2025-03-15 06:36
Intel Compute Runtime Publishes Initial Panther Lake Xe3 GPU OpenCL/L0 Support
Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out ...
2025-03-14 20:22
KDE Frameworks 6.12 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes
KDE Frameworks 6.12 open-source software suite is now available with various bug fixex and improvements for Plasma desktop users. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Frameworks 6.12 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to...
2025-03-14 19:21
Ubuntu 25.04 Yaru Theme Update Brings New Icons
With Ubuntu 25.04 feature freeze now in effect the final licks of polish and paint have begun landing — including an update to Ubuntu’s Yaru theme. The Yaru theme is composed of a modified GTK4/libadwaita stylesheet, GNOME Shell theme, icon pack, a...
2025-03-14 17:57
Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15
Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes,...
2025-03-14 16:43
What is System Hardening? Essential Checklists from OS to Applications
Hardening a system aims to decrease its exposure to make it difficult to hack, and to lessen the potential collateral damage in the event of a compromise.
2025-03-14 14:39
Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...
2025-03-14 14:22
Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 "Genio 350" Support In Linux 6.15
On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this...
2025-03-14 11:24
GCC 15 Deprecates Support For The ESA/390 Architecture
In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...
2025-03-14 10:15
Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...
2025-03-14 10:03