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AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models
Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models...
2025-03-05 19:13
Ubuntu 25.04’s New PDF Viewer App is Now Rolling Out
Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official. Papers is a fork of Evince that is actively maintained and ma...
2025-03-05 18:27
Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected
After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporti...
2025-03-05 13:09
Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations
The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor...
2025-03-05 10:06
AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance
Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks ...
2025-03-05 09:00
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute bench...
2025-03-05 09:00
4 cool new projects to try in Copr for March 2025
This article series takes a closer look at interesting projects that recently landed in Copr. Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects with a wide variety of purposes, targeting diverse groups of users....
2025-03-05 08:00
Making Vulkan More Of A "Joy To Use" Discussed At Vulkanised 2025
In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and m...
2025-03-05 06:57
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration
The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration...
2025-03-05 06:40
Linux 6.15 Preparing Support For The XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, A Big 4K Drawing Tablet
Linux already supports a number of XP-Pen drawing tablets while the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to include support for another one: the XP-Pen Artist Pro 19. This XP-Pen Artist Pro 19 is a big, 4K resolution display drawing tablet that retails fo...
2025-03-05 06:30
More Apple SoC DeviceTree Additions Being Upstreamed For Linux 6.15
Sven Peter continues work on upstreaming more of the Apple SoC support to the mainline Linux kernel. On the DeviceTree side following the DT support for Apple T2 SoCs sent out last month, another set of updates were submitted this week ahead of the Lin...
2025-03-05 06:13
Mozilla Thunderbird 136 Released with New “Appearance” Panel in Settings
Mozilla Thunderbird 136 open-source email client is now available for download with a new "Appearance" settings UI and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Mozilla Thunderbird 136 Released with New “Appearance” Panel in Settings appeared firs...
2025-03-04 23:23
Meet the Fedora Project Mentors for Google Summer of Code 2025
The Fedora Project is excited to participate in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025. This continues our commitment to fostering open-source contributions and mentoring new contributors. As an organization deeply rooted in collaboration and innovation, Fe...
2025-03-04 17:29
AMD ZenDNN 5.0.1 Released To Help With EPYC Inferencing For Recommender Systems & LLMs
Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 "Turin" processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out tod...
2025-03-04 16:35
Firefox 137 Enters Public Beta Testing with HEVC Playback Support on Linux
Firefox 137 web browser is now available for public beta testing with HEVC playback support on Linux and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Firefox 137 Enters Public Beta Testing with HEVC Playback Support on Linux appeared first on 9to5Linux -...
2025-03-04 15:36
LLVM/Clang 20.1 Released With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2, AMD GFX950 & Much More
LLVM 20.1 was just tagged in Git as the first stable version of the LLVM 20 compiler stack including sub-projects like the Clang 20 C/C++ Compiler...
2025-03-04 15:25
Install FreePBX and Asterisk on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for security patches until 2036
Deploying FreePBX and Asterisk on a single Ubuntu virtual machine in a public cloud is an ideal solution for personal users and small to medium-sized businesses with voice over IP (VoIP) and fax over IP (FoIP) needs. This setup costs nothing, is scalab...
2025-03-04 14:35
Certification as a strategy: How Ubuntu & SystemReady boost hardware competitiveness
Canonical and MediaTek enhance reliability, accelerate market entry and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for ODMs through Ubuntu Certified Hardware and Arm SystemReady programs  The hardware ecosystem is evolving rapidly, presenting a continuous c...
2025-03-04 14:31
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Azure: how to stay secure after standard support ends
As standard support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ends on May 31, 2025, Azure users must choose between upgrading to a newer version or enabling extended security with Ubuntu Pro to ensure continued compliance and protection against vulnerabilities.
2025-03-04 12:59