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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition
A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 "dirty rect" mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more. Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull ...
2025-03-13 06:44
Zed Editor Rolls Out Native Git Integration
The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sou...
2025-03-13 06:24
Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support
A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers...
2025-03-13 06:09
Proposed Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel's libperf From Python
A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel's libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language...
2025-03-13 05:58
Google unveils Gemma 3 multi-modal AI models
Google DeepMind has introduced Gemma 3, an update to the company’s family of generative AI models, featuring multi-modality that allows the models to analyze images, answer questions about images, identify objects, and perform other tasks that invol...
2025-03-13 02:39
Iconography of the PuTTY tools
Ah, PuTTY. Good old reliable PuTTY. This little tool is one of those cornerstone applications in the toolbox of most of us, without any fuss, without any upsells or anti-user nonsense – it just does its job, and it has been doing its job for 30 years...
2025-03-13 00:37
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Ubuntu to replace classic coreutils and more with new Rust-based alternatives
After so much terrible tech politics news, let’s focus on some nice, easy-going Linux news that’s not going to be controversial at all: Ubuntu intends to replace numerous core Linux utilities with newer Rust replacements, starting with the ubiquito...
2025-03-12 23:16
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Chimera Linux drops RISC-V support because capable RISC-V hardware doesn’t exist
We’ve talked about Chimera Linux a few times now on OSNews, so I won’t be repeating what makes it unique once more. The project announced today that it will be shuttering its RISC-V architecture support, and considering RISC-V has been supported by...
2025-03-12 22:54
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‘I feel utter anger’: from Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading
In Canada, where the American national anthem has been booed during hockey matches with US teams, a slew of apps has emerged with names such as “buy beaver”, “maple scan” and “is this Canadian” to allow shoppers to scan QR barcodes and reje...
2025-03-12 21:26
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GitHub to unbundle Advanced Security
GitHub announced plans to unbundle its GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) product, breaking it up into two standalone products: GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security. The unbundling is set to happen on April 1. GitHub Secret Protection will d...
2025-03-12 21:06
Ubuntu 25.04 Default Wallpaper & Mascot Unveiled
The default wallpaper for Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ has been unveiled. Each new Ubuntu release bears a bespoke desktop background and animal mascot, and the upcoming release of the Plucky Puffin proves no exception. Ubuntu 25.04’s default wall...
2025-03-12 20:59
At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation
After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining the Linux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got togethe...
2025-03-12 20:52
Red Hat's Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features
It's been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device ...
2025-03-12 20:32
OpenAI takes on rivals with new Responses API, Agents SDK
OpenAI’s new Responses API and an upgraded Agents SDK will help enterprises more easily build agents with advanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The new tools may help it fend off challenges from rivals such as A...
2025-03-12 18:38
Lip-Bu Tan Named As Next Intel CEO
Intel announced a short time ago that Lip-Bu Tan has been named as the company's next CEO...
2025-03-12 16:55
Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components
Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use ...
2025-03-12 11:54
AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance
Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel's scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate ...
2025-03-12 11:30