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Confirmed: Ubuntu Dev Discussions Moving to Matrix
Ubuntu’s key developers have agreed to switch to Matrix as the primary platform for real-time development communications involving the distro. From March, Matrix will replace IRC as the place where critical Ubuntu development conversations, requests,...
2025-01-29 16:17
Protect your VPN from TunnelVision attacks with NetworkManager
Many users trust in a variety of VPN solutions to securely protect their privacy or access to personal or company’s resources when connecting from an untrusted network. This may be an airport or cafe’s WiFi network. This article describes how to us...
2025-01-29 15:43
Open-Source RADV Radeon Driver Support For RDNA4: "Should Be Good Enough"
Lead RADV developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has provided some insight into the support expectations for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver with the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 "RDNA4" graphics cards...
2025-01-29 15:29
X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon
About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up...
2025-01-29 13:07
PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support For x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience
PyTorch 2.6 is out today as the newest feature release to this widely-used machine learning library...
2025-01-29 12:49
Ubuntu Developers Moving From IRC To Matrix For Real-Time Communication
Following a discussion on the Ubuntu development mailing list, Ubuntu developers have decided to adopt Matrix for their official real-time communication channels while deprecating IRC chat...
2025-01-29 10:34
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - January 2025
Tumbleweed remains a strong example of a reliable rolling release as we step into 2025. This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates! Two much anticipated major version updates arrived in snapshots this month; GIMP’s release ca...
2025-01-29 09:00
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Last week was the review embargo lift on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card while today the review embargo lifts on the GeForce RTX 5080, both of which graphics cards are officially available in the retail channel tomorrow (30 January). Due to w...
2025-01-29 09:00
GNU C Library 2.41 Released With New C23 Features, Intel / AMD / Arm CPU Optimizations
As expected, GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 is now available as the newest half-year feature release to this important C library for Linux systems and other environments...
2025-01-29 08:43
Bytedance Praises eBPF - Notes 10% Improvement In Network Throughput
Bytedance is praising eBPF as the in-kernel virtual machine for dynamic programs to help speed-up network packet processing, greater tracing and profiling abilities, and a wide-range of other purposes for these dynamic in-kernel programs. By tapping eB...
2025-01-29 08:30
Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO
AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
2025-01-29 06:54
Ubuntu's Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support Enables Experimental Hardware Video Decode
Canonical has been maintaining experimental/testing ISOs of Ubuntu Linux for Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops. New ISOs for testing were recently published and allow enabling more features/functionality for these ARM laptops under Ubuntu...
2025-01-29 06:28
Linux 6.14 NFS Adds Direct I/O With LOCALIO, Attribute Delegation Support
The Network File System (NFS) client and server changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...
2025-01-29 06:12
LLVM 20 Feature Development Wraps Up With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2 & AMD GFX950
The LLVM 20 compiler stack saw its code branched from the mainline Git codebase last night as release preparations begin for what will be LLVM 20.1 as the inaugural stable release...
2025-01-29 05:54
KaOS Linux 2025.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.2
KaOS Linux 2025.01 independent distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here's what's new! The post KaOS Linux 2025.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.2 appea...
2025-01-28 21:49
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Ananthu C V (weepingclown) Andrea Pappacoda (tachi) Athos Coimbra Ribeiro (athos) Gioele Barabucci (gioele) Jongmin Kim (jmkim) Shengqi Chen (harry) Frans Spiesschae...
2025-01-28 20:00
Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now"
Greg Kroah-Hartman today sent out the pull request of all the driver core updates for Linux 6.14, which ends up being a big deal for those interested in the prospects of Rust drivers for the Linux kernel...
2025-01-28 19:26
Pinta 3.0 Beta Released with New GTK4/Libadwaita UI
A new beta release of open source graphics editing app Pinta is available for testing. Pinta 3.0 (beta) gives fans of this cross-platform raster image editor, which is directly inspired by the iconic Paint.NET Windows app, an early opportunity to try o...
2025-01-28 18:52
System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM
System76’s Meerkat mini Linux PC is now available to order with Intel Core Ultra processors, up to 62% faster RAM, and other updates. The post System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM appeared first on 9to5...
2025-01-28 16:12
AMD ROCm 6.3.2 Supports Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0, HIP Improvements & Better Docs
Following last month's release of ROCm 6.3.1, ROCm 6.3.2 was just tagged today from its various open-source repositories and binaries beginning to come down the pipeline. ROCm 6.3.2 is another point release but brings a decent set of refinements for th...
2025-01-28 16:05