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If you’re using Canonical’s Steam snap to game on Ubuntu you may be pleased to hear that a number appreciable performance improvements have begun to filter out. Valve recommend Ubuntu users stick to the official Steam DEB for the best experience bu...

OBS Studio 31.0 enters public beta testing with NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur, refactored NVENC encoder, preview scrollbars, v210 format support for AJA device capture, and more. The post OBS Studio 31.0 Promises NVIDIA Blur Filter/Background ...

Within the competitive financial services landscape, staying ahead isn’t just about keeping up with new technology. It requires actively engaging in the most influential and rapidly changing spaces, with open source being one of the most impactful. ...

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 is now available for download as a secure, reliable, and lightweight operating system for containerized and virtualized workloads. Here's what's new! The post openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Launches with Self-Install and Full Disk Encr...

While the Linux 6.12 merge window has been closed for more than one week, the modern NTFS "NTFS3" driver has seen some late feature enhancements as well as some fixes merged today for this new kernel version...

GRUB2 with BLS is now in MicroOS and Tumbleweed Recently the openSUSE project released for MicroOS and Tumbleweed a new version of the GRUB2 package, with a new subpackage grub2-$ARCH-efi-bls. This subpackage deliver a new EFI file, grubbls.efi, that c...

For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 t...

Tails 6.8 amnesic incognito live system distribution is now available for download with a new file system repair feature and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Tails 6.8 Introduces File System Repair When Unlocking Persistent Storage appeared f...

KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment is now available with Wayland color management support, per-monitor brightness control, full Sticky Keys support on Wayland, and more. The post KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s...

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are...

Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to pr...

KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...

Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...

While there is the open-source MoltenVK project that implements the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers on iOS/macOS, the 3D graphics consulting firm LunarG is exploring the possibility of implementing Vulkan to Metal translation using Mesa...

Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit...

While the recently-departed GNOME Foundation Executive Director in the summer statement was described as "drafting a bold five-year strategic plan for the Foundation, securing two important fiscal sponsorship agreements with GIMP and Black Python Devs,...

OpenBSD 7.6 is out this evening as another major step forward for this BSD operating system with enhanced hardware support, security improvements, updating various user-space software, and enabling other kernel enhancements...

FEX 2410 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on Linux AArch64 (ARM 64-bit) systems, including for games and software like Steam. With FEX 2410 there are yet more fixes as well a...

Following a last minute delay due to a performance regression, Python 3.13 stable is out today as the annual major feature release to this widely-used scripting language implementation...

Git 2.47 is out today as the newest feature release to this immensely popular distributed revision control system...