Linux

Contribute at the Fedora CoreOS and IoT Test Week
Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora...
2024-10-04 16:51
Qualcomm Linux Driver Prepares For New "AIC080" Lower-Cost Cloud AI Accelerator
The Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 accelerator caters to a variety of edge-to-cloud industries. While the Qualcomm Cloud AI hardware isn't talked about as much as the AI accelerators from other vendors, there is the QAIC driver within the mainline Linux kernel ...
2024-10-04 16:10
NetworkManager 1.50 Released, Supports Veth Config in CLI
A new version of NetworkManager – used by most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) to manage wired and wireless network connections – was released this week. NetworkManager 1.50 won’t be included in Ubuntu 24.10 (that ships with v1.48) but I t...
2024-10-04 14:35
NetworkManager 1.50 Released, Supports veth Config in Terminal UI
A new version of NetworkManager – used by most Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) to manage wired and wireless network connections – was released this week. NetworkManager 1.50 won’t be included in Ubuntu 24.10 (that ships with v1.48) but I t...
2024-10-04 14:35
Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes
Fwupd 2.0 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for new devices, numerous new features and improvements, and a bunch of bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major ...
2024-10-04 13:48
Intel Panther Lake Introducing 5th Gen NPU - Initial Linux Patches Posted
Intel's Linux engineers continue working on preparing for next-generation hardware support within the kernel well ahead of launch. The latest on the recent enablement around next-gen Panther Lake processors is enabling a new "5th Gen" neural processing...
2024-10-04 13:42
AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators
Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteo...
2024-10-04 12:41
Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
Ardour 8.8 open-source digital audio workstation is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements. Here's what's changed! The post Ardour 8.8 Open-Source DAW Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements appeared first on 9to5Li...
2024-10-04 11:05
ZLUDA Takes On Third Life: Open-Source Multi-GPU CUDA Implementation Focused On AI
The open-source ZLUDA project began life as a drop-in CUDA replacement that ran atop Intel GPUs using the Level Zero API. Then AMD quietly began funding it for several years as a viable CUDA implementation running atop AMD GPUs until discontinued fundi...
2024-10-04 10:00
Fwupd 2.0 Released To Drop Legacy & Deprecated Bits, Adds New Features
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced Fwupd 2.0 as a major release to this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems. Fwupd 2.0 clears out a lot of long deprecated and legacy bits while adding new features and shipping many fixes...
2024-10-04 09:41
Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering
Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
2024-10-04 08:58
Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver
Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running...
2024-10-04 06:52
Zink Seeing VA-API Video Acceleration Implemented Over Vulkan Video
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has experimental code now available for testing that also implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop the Vulkan Video APIs. This is an interesting effort that now allows VA-API applications to rely on drivers w...
2024-10-04 06:39
Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6
Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...
2024-10-04 06:31
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine project that was born at Mozilla and now continued by Linux Foundation Europe with other stakeholders like Igalia has been making steady progress in recent months. The project's September 2024 status report is n...
2024-10-04 06:14
Debian welcomes Freexian as our newest partner!
We are excited to announce and welcome Freexian into Debian Partners. Freexian specializes in Free Software with a particular focus on Debian GNU/Linux. Freexian can assist with consulting, training, technical support, packaging, or software developme...
2024-10-04 03:17
Parabolic (Video Downloader) Rewritten in C++, Adjusts UI
There are plenty of ways to download videos from well-known video streaming sites on Ubuntu but I find Parabolic the easiest, least hassle option out there. For those yet to hear about it, Parabolic is a GTK4/libadwaita app for Linux (or a Qt one for W...
2024-10-04 00:33
New AMD Linux Patches Aim To Further Boost Performance For Heterogeneous CPU Designs
A new set of patches from AMD Linux engineers today aim to boost the performance for heterogeneous CPU designs such as the recent Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs that have multiple core types...
2024-10-03 20:22
Canonical at Cloud Expo 2024
The Cloud Expo Madrid 2024 will run on 16 and 17 October at IFEMA Madrid. Come down to our booth, K87, to meet us and chat about Cloud, AI, ML and more.
2024-10-03 15:09
What is a vector database?
what is vector database
2024-10-03 14:56