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AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 Released With Strix Halo Support
When seeing a new AMDVLK release was just tagged on GitHub and just a few hours to go until the Radeon RX 9070 series announcement, I was hoping it was going to be a new driver officially rolling out their new RDNA4 GPU support. Today's AMDVLK 2025.Q1....
2025-02-28 05:57
NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements
NVIDIA 570 graphics driver is now available for download with VRR (variable refresh rate) support on multi-monitor setups and other changes. Here's what's new! The post NVIDIA 570 Linux Graphics Driver Released with New Features and Improvements appear...
2025-02-27 15:48
Intel Posts Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions
Intel initially detailed Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) back in mid-2023 as extensions to double the number of general purpose registers and add other performance features. In the time since they have done a lot preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang ...
2025-02-27 15:40
LibreOffice 25.2.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 77 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 25.2.1 is now available for download as the first point release to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with 77 bug fixes. The post LibreOffice 25.2.1 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 77 Bug Fixes appeared first on...
2025-02-27 15:14
EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert
In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...
2025-02-27 14:44
Motion Control Subsystem Proposed For The Linux Kernel
A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today propose the introduction of a Linux Motion Control "LMC" subsystem for drivers that could control devices like CNC machines and 3D printers...
2025-02-27 13:30
SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Receives Pleasant Facelift, Future Roadmap
SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and the...
2025-02-27 12:11
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - February 2025
This month delivered multiple snapshots and a wide range of updates plus a major default change highlighted in mid-February and a major version update of the Mesa 3D Graphic Library. GIMP 3.0.0~RC3 appears close to being final with GTK 3.24.48 integrat...
2025-02-27 12:00
Experience Edge AI use cases with Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) are increasingly driving change in telecommunications. Increased adoption is building organizational confidence in the positive impact that AI can bring, which in turn is leading business leaders to ...
2025-02-27 11:00
NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes
Going into beta just under one month ago was the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux driver that brought initial support for GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics cards as well as Vulkan driver improvements, Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) support with multiple displays,...
2025-02-27 10:39
FFmpeg Lands AV1 RTP Packetizer/Depacketizer
Merged yesterday to FFmpeg Git is an initial AV1 RTP packetizer and depacketizer in working to support the tentative AV1 RTP specification...
2025-02-27 10:08
FreeBSD In Q4 Saw More Work For AMD Systems, Framework Laptops & PinePhone Pro
The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...
2025-02-27 08:45
Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust
Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...
2025-02-27 08:24
AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support
Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE...
2025-02-27 06:58
x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM
Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups ...
2025-02-27 06:34
Zink Working On A "Nice Performance Boost" For OpenCL / DaVinci Resolve
Mike Blumenkrantz as the lead developer of Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation and working for Valve as part of their Linux graphics team has been spending much time recently optimizing for OpenCL with the Rusticl Gallium3D driver...
2025-02-27 06:25
Mozilla Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox
Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser. “Although we’ve historically relied on our open source l...
2025-02-26 19:45
Mozilla is Introducing ‘Terms of Use’ to Firefox
Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser. “Although we’ve historically relied on our open source l...
2025-02-26 19:45
Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface
Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system...
2025-02-26 13:57
5G without compromise: Building mission-critical private networks for Industry 4.0 with open source
Enterprises across industry verticals are looking for new ways to increase the efficacy of their businesses. One way to do this is building an efficient pipeline of processes, employees, devices, and services that are all tightly integrated to get the ...
2025-02-26 11:00