Linux

LLVM Clang Lands Targeting Support For The SiFive P550 RISC-V Performance Core
Upstreamed to LLVM/Clang overnight is now targeting support for the SiFive P550 RISC-V core with the "-mcpu=sifive-p550" option...
2025-01-09 06:51
GNOME Mutter Merges Support For Wayland Timing & Queuing Protocols
After being in development the past year, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of GNOME 48 is support for the Wayland timing and queueing protocols...
2025-01-09 06:32
Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements
Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.36 as the newest update to this open-source linker that aims to deliver maximum performance at all costs...
2025-01-09 06:21
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Launches For $120 USD
One of the leading rare complaints over the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer (and the more recently launched Raspberry Pi 500) is that it tops out at just 8GB of system memory... 8GB was enough years ago and still is if planning to use the Raspberr...
2025-01-09 03:00
Scribus 1.6.3 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Bug Fixes
Scribus 1.6.3 free, open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various bug and crash fixes. Here's what's new! The post Scribus 1.6.3 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Bug Fixes appeared first on 9...
2025-01-08 23:34
Redox OS Ends 2024 On A High Note With Dynamic Linking Progress, ifconfig Port
The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their December 2024 development recap. The developers involved did a great job ending out 2024 with a lot of exciting improvements for this scratch-based open-source operating system...
2025-01-08 20:24
Intel's Clang Code Begins Landing For OpenMP Offloading To SPIR-V For GPU Execution
Intel software engineers have been working on allowing OpenMP offloading to their Intel GPUs by way of targeting generic SPIR-V, the common intermediate representation used across Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers. The initial patches to that work have ...
2025-01-08 16:47
Web Engineering: Hack Week 2024
At Canonical, the work of our teams is strongly embedded in the open source principles and philosophy. We believe open source software will become the most prevalent method of software development and delivery in the future. Being open source is more t...
2025-01-08 13:50
Linux 6.14 Preps UHBR For Intel Panther Lake, Lower Alchemist GPU Power Use With Whitelisted CPUs
Intel software engineers this week sent out two pull requests landing more of their final kernel graphics driver feature changes destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...
2025-01-08 10:10
Tumbleweed Monthly Update - December 2024
Tumbleweed continues to exemplify a solid rolling release and December 2024 wraps up a year of several snapshots and large array of updates! KDE Gear 24.12 improves app usability, SQLite introduces innovative query features and snapshots brought critic...
2025-01-08 09:00
AMD Linux GPU Driver Preps OEM i2c Bus Support Used For RGB Control & More
A set of patches posted this week for the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver is beginning to expose additional i2c buses that are used by some OEM/AIB partners for implementing RGB lighting controls and other extra functionality with Radeon graphics c...
2025-01-08 08:50
Intel Preps Nice NPU Driver Improvements For Linux 6.14
For those with an Intel Core Ultra system bearing the company's Neural Processing Unit (NPU), some nice driver enhancements are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...
2025-01-08 06:56
FEX 2501 Brings JIT Performance Improvements, Changes Needed For Denuvo Support
FEX 2501 is now available as the newest feature release to this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts...
2025-01-08 06:39
KDE Plasma 6.3 To Offer Better Night Light Mode On HDR Displays
KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl is out with a new blog post on his quest of providing optimal High Dynamic Range (HDR) display experience with the KDE desktop. The latest focus by Xaver has been on fixing the "night light" mode support under KDE Plasma o...
2025-01-08 06:25
Open3D v0.19 Brings Cross-Platform GPU Support Via SYCL
Open3D v0.19 is out as the newest feature release to this open-source library for 3D data processing in C++ and Python. Open3D provides various 3D data structures, processing algorithms, 3D visualizations, physically based GPU rendering, and machine le...
2025-01-08 06:05
Arch Linux User Repository Requires Packages To Support x86_64: No ARM-Only Software
It turns out the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" has a strict mandate that packages must be able to be built for the x86_64 CPU architecture. Software not supporting x86_64 like ARM-only software is not permitted for the common Arch Linux AUR reposito...
2025-01-07 20:47
Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with XZ Packaging on Linux
Firefox 135 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with XZ packaging for faster updates and many other changes. Here's what to expect! The post Firefox 135 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with XZ Packaging on Linux ap...
2025-01-07 17:28
Cross-Vendor Mesh Shading Being Worked On For OpenGL
While it's very rare in recent times for a new OpenGL extension -- especially one that is exciting -- given the continued great adoption of the modern Vulkan API, in 2025 we are looking at an interesting addition to OpenGL with cross-vendor mesh shadin...
2025-01-07 16:47
AMD's GPUOpen HIP RT 2.5 Released With Fixes, GFX1200 RDNA4 Support
AMD's GPUOpen team today released HIP RT 2.5 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP. This library in turn is used by the likes of the Blender 3D modeling software for ray-tracing acceleration on Radeon GPUs...
2025-01-07 15:40
Board Election Schedule Revised
Members of the openSUSE Election Committee have provided an update regarding this year’s Board election. This election will fill three board seats. All eligible openSUSE members are encouraged to participate in shaping the future of the project. The ...
2025-01-07 14:00