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Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages
Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposa...
2025-06-24 06:43
Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...
2025-06-24 06:16
RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2
Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
2025-06-24 06:06
Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates
The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...
2025-06-24 05:40
Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR
Firefox 140 released with tab unloading, custom search engines, and more. ESR users gain major new features like tab grouping and vertical tabs. You're reading Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not...
2025-06-24 01:00
RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Some "Random Bits & Pieces" For CDNA Accelerators
The RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa supports GFX9/Vega graphics cards but not the later CDNA-based Instinct accelerators. However, some patches merged today for Mesa 25.2-devel did introduce some "random bits and pieces" for CDNA but ...
2025-06-23 20:40
Improving our web page creation workflow: how structured content is slashing design and development time
Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need for constant design involvement in the day-to-day creation of web pages. Our strategy for achiev...
2025-06-23 16:25
Revolutionizing Web Page Creation: How Structured Content is Slashing Design and Development Time
Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need for constant design involvement in the day-to-day creation of web pages. Our strategy for achiev...
2025-06-23 16:25
IBM Already Working On What Is Likely Power12 Support For The GCC Compiler
While we await the formal IBM Power11 launch in 2025, IBM engineers are already working on compiler support for "future" post-Power11 processors with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...
2025-06-23 15:15
Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Various Changes
Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 open-source and free disk cloning/imaging tool is now available for download with various changes and updated components. Here’s what’s new! The post Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Various...
2025-06-23 14:49
GIMP 3.2 Promises New Paint Mode, Support for Importing Photoshop Patterns
GIMP 3.2 open-source image editor is now available for public testing promising many new features and enhancements. Here's what to expect! The post GIMP 3.2 Promises New Paint Mode, Support for Importing Photoshop Patterns appeared first on 9to5Linu...
2025-06-23 14:03
Firefox 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
Firefox 140 open-source web browser is now available for download as the next ESR (Extended Support Release) series. Here’s what's new! The post Firefox 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New appeared first on 9to5Li...
2025-06-23 13:05
Ubuntu Core is now available on MediaTek’s Genio platform
This is the first optimized Ubuntu Core image available on MediaTek’s Genio 350, 510, 700, and 1200 platforms released under the strategic partnership between Canonical and MediaTek Inc.  Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and MediaTek announ...
2025-06-23 12:00
Intel Xeon 6300 vs. AMD EPYC 4005 SMT/HT Performance
While the latest Intel Core Ultra processors have done away with Hyper Threading (HT), Intel Xeon CPUs continue supporting HT/SMT, including with their latest Xeon 6300 series budget server processors. As the new AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors also s...
2025-06-23 12:00
qBittorrent 5.1.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Improves Wayland Support
qBittorrent 5.1.1 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post qBittorrent 5.1.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Improves Wayland Support appeared first on 9to5Linux...
2025-06-23 11:12
Firefox 140 Released With "Unload Tab", CSS Custom Highlighting API
Mozilla Firefox 140 release binaries are available today as what's going to be the web browser project's next Extended Support Release (ESR) version...
2025-06-23 10:20
IPFire Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 195 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with support for the WireGuard VPN protocol and other updates. Here’s what’s new! The post IPFire Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Pro...
2025-06-23 09:57
GIMP 3.1.2 Released As First Step Toward GIMP 3.2
GIMP 3.1.2 was just released as the first development version on the road toward GIMP 3.2 stable...
2025-06-23 09:05
Fair DRM Scheduler Looking Good For Better Fairness & Scheduling Of GPU Clients
Being worked on for a while has been a "Fair" DRM scheduler inspired by Linux's CFS scheduler and aiming for better performance and scheduling behavior between multiple GPU interactive clients sharing GPU resources...
2025-06-23 08:55
UEFI SBAT Support Coming Together Ahead Of Linux 6.17
Support for UEFI Secure Boot Advanced Targeting "SBAT" looks like it could be buttoned up in the mainline kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle...
2025-06-23 08:40