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FFmpeg Lands Vulkan Improvements With Initial FFV1 Vulkan Decoder
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan Video improvements today into FFmpeg Git. In addition, there is now an FFV1 Vulkan-based decoder...
2025-03-17 08:00
GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
GIMP 3.0 open-source image editor is now available for download with a much-refined interface, massive improvements to color management, and more. Here's what's new! The post GIMP 3.0 Image Editor Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New ap...
2025-03-17 07:56
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Begins Its Week Long Cloud/Server Migration
It's going to be a light week for development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, various other X.Org related components, and the dozens of other open-source projects that rely on the FreeDesktop.org GitLab for facilitating merge requests, CI testin...
2025-03-17 06:49
Ubuntu 25.04 To Enable NVIDIA Dynamic Boost By Default
The upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 Linux OS release will be enabling NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support by default when using their packaged driver support on capable laptops...
2025-03-17 06:37
GIMP 3.0 Stable Being Released As Long-Awaited Update To Adobe Photoshop Alternative
After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released...
2025-03-17 06:14
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 16th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 16th, 2025, brings news about Debian 12.10, KDE Plasma 6.3.3, Garuda COSMIC, DXVK 2.6, GStreamer 1.26, KDE Frameworks 6.12, Audacity 3.7.2, digiKam 8.6, LXQt 2.2 features, Mesa 25.1 defaulting to NVK, as well as a...
2025-03-16 23:23
Linux 6.14-rc7 Released With v6.14 Final Expected Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel with expectations of releasing Linux 6.14 stable next weekend...
2025-03-16 19:05
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 Brings New Features For NVIDIA GPUs With Valve's Steam Play
Following the DXVK 2.6 release from a few days ago for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 atop Vulkan and ahead of the upcoming Proton 10.0 release for further enhancing Valve's Steam Play, out today is DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 as the NVIDIA NVAPI integration for use with DXVK...
2025-03-16 13:41
Arm Changing Linux Default To Costly "KPTI" Mitigation For Some Newer CPUs
For some newer Arm core designs, Arm is changing the Linux kernel to defaulting to enabling Kernel Page Table Isolation "KPTI" if not running on a new firmware version in order to properly mitigate a recently disclosed CPU security issue. This change h...
2025-03-16 10:38
Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15
For those that happen to have a Huawei Matebook E Go 2-in-1 laptop or have been considering these ARM laptops, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel will be better supporting these devices thanks to a new driver set to be merged...
2025-03-16 10:18
Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...
2025-03-16 07:01
One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes
An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...
2025-03-16 06:38
Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers
A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development...
2025-03-16 06:27
Debian Med Sprint in Berlin
Debian Med sprint in Berlin on 15 and 16 February The Debian Med team works on software packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences, and makes them available for the Debian distribution. Seven Debian developers ...
2025-03-16 00:00
Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Released with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is now available for download as a new point release to Debian 12 "Bookworm" with 66 bug fixes and 43 security updates. The post Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Released with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-03-15 21:18
Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 "Bookworm" Linux distribution release...
2025-03-15 19:30
digiKam 8.6 Released with Many Face Management Updates and Improvements
digiKam 8.6 open-source photo management software is now available for download with face management improvements and color label usability. Here’s what’s new! The post digiKam 8.6 Released with Many Face Management Updates and Improvements appeare...
2025-03-15 12:26
Paid XR Desktop For GNOME "Breezy Desktop" In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support
The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with it...
2025-03-15 10:51
ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack... But No Sound Due To Bugs
It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a ne...
2025-03-15 10:26