CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine
The Arch Linux powered CachyOS is out with its March 2025 update that delivers a number of new features for this OS that is popular with open-source enthusiasts and power users for its out-of-the-box performance optimizations and extensive tuning...
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Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management
Google's Ozone Wayland support continues to improve for benefiting the Chrome/Chromium web browser. The newest addition merged this past week is support for the xdg-session-management protocol...
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CrowdSupply recently introduced the TinyBeast FPGA, a compact platform based on Microchip’s PolarFire FPGA technology.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Lenovo ThinkEdge SE30 Watchdog Driver Coming For Linux 6.15
The watchdog subsystem changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.15 merge window that is now at the mid-way point...
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Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations
The first quarter of 2025 is already drawing to a close... It seemed like Q1'2025 flew by but when looking back at all the Mesa 3D graphics driver activity, there was a heck of a lot accomplished in this area of the open-source landscape. Open-source Vulkan drivers continued advancing feverishly, Mesa code continues to be adapted to new platforms from Windows…
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IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands In Linux 6.15
IO_uring continues maturing while being one of the greatest innovations within the Linux kernel in the past number of years. With Linux 6.15, IO_uring is getting even more interesting with introducing network zero-copy receive support. With this new code a 200G link could be saturated off a single CPU core in a recent demonstration...
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Shotcut 25.03 open-source video editor is now available for download with new features, various improvements, and many bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
MIPS Lands Multi-Cluster Support In Linux 6.15 For The EyeQ6 SoC
While the upstream MIPS architecture is at a dead-end due to RISC-V, the Linux kernel code for the MIPS CPU architecture continues to improve for all the existing MIPS-based platforms out there. With Linux 6.15 there is new work for enhancing the Mobileye EyeQ6 SoC support...
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There has been a dearth of new Chromebooks in the market, which could be a sign of what's to come.Andrew Myrick (Android Central)
Set to be merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel is the very initial NOVA driver core code that will be incrementally built up over time in succeeding kernel versionslxer.com
The Luckfox Pico Pi series consists of four models with a Raspberry Pi SBC form factor, designed for embedded applications.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Shotcut 25.03 video editor adds filter overlays, new video modes, UI enhancements, and fixes critical crashes and timeline bugs.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
All of the PCI subsystem feature updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel cyclelxer.com
: Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detectionThomas Claburn (The Register)
Shotcut 25.03 Open-Source, Cross-Platform Video Editor Released
Shotcut 25.03 is now available for this open-source and cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT Multimedia Framework...
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What is a 422 Error Unprocessable Content error and how can you fix it? Find out in our latest post or get our admins to fix it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
The auction was part of the Free Software Foundation's way of celebrating its 40th Anniversary. Coming up in May will be LibreLocal community meetups.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
Stalwart open-source mail server is expanding beyond email to become a full collaboration platform with calendaring, contacts, and file sharing support.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The networking subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel bring multiple nice performance optimizations to enhance Linux networking speedslxer.com
Bioinformatics is very important in the field of human genome research. It has become crucial for large-scale measurement technologies.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
Intel's 2025-Q1 Linux Excitement With Battlemage, AVX10 & Other Kernel Improvements
With the first quarter quickly drawing to a close, here's a look back at the most popular Intel Linux news of the quarter. There's been excitement with the Battlemage discrete graphics cards with their open-source driver, early work on Xe3 graphics, AVX10.2 dropping the optional 512-bit features to make it mandatory now (thankfully!), and a lot of exciting…
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Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!FOSS Force
Firmware Loader Makes It Possible To Use Old Samsung TV Cameras On Linux
Samsung used to sell web cameras for their smart TVs for use with living room video chatting with the likes of Skype. Samsung no longer supports Skype on their TVs (goodbye Skype!) or these devices but if you happen to have one laying around or buy one used for cheap, it's now possible to use these Samsung TV cameras as a standard web camera under Linux...
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: Thanks to Collabora's work on Zink and NVK… and indirectly to GPU-maker's FOSS release, tooLiam Proven (The Register)
Linux 6.15 PCI Brings New Drivers For Agilex PCIe Controller & AMD Multimedia DMA Bridge
All of the PCI subsystem feature updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. This includes some new drivers from AMD and Intel-Altera as well as various other PCI changes...
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While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.lxer.com
Xiph.Org's Theora libtheora 1.2 Officially Released: 16 Years After v1.0
Earlier this month brought the Theora 1.2 beta release coming 16 years after Theora's libtheora 1.0 release for this video codec designed by Xiph.Org for use with Ogg audio. Theora is derived from the now rather ancient VP3 video codec, but for those continuing to enjoy content in Theora format, today brings the version 1.2 library...
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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 To Fix The "Most Common" Crash, Other Crash Fixes Coming Too
Within This Week in Plasma, KDE developer Nate Graham notes the great excitement in KDE bug fixing this week/ KDE developers have lowered their HI/VHI priority bug counts down to "their lowest numbers ever numbers" in addition to working on new Plasma 6.4 features over the past few days...
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Within This Week in Plasma, KDE developer Nate Graham notes the great excitement in KDE bug fixing this week/ KDE developers have lowered their HI/VHI priority bug counts down to 'their lowest numbers ever numbers' in addition to working on new Plasm…www.phoronix.com
Debian 13 "Trixie" Freeze Process Begins
The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 "Trixie" transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month...
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The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 'Trixie' transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month.www.phoronix.com
We caught up with Nolen Royalty, known as eieio, the creator of experimental multiplayer games like One Million Checkboxes and Stranger Video.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
: That stands for I Probably Overestimated?Dan Robinson (The Register)
KaOS 2025.03 independent distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The big pull request was sent out today of the numerous Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernellxer.com
KaOS 2025.03 is out with Linux kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3.3, KDE Gear 24.12.3, and major scaling, graphics, and system info updates.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Since last year Canonical had been investigating using -O3 compiler optimizations for their Ubuntu package builds in the name of delivering better performance for Ubuntu Linuxlxer.com
Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15
The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he's unhappy with some new "hdrtest" testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the "turds" it leaves behind and this code "needs to die" at least from the perspecti…
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GNOME Builder IDE Adds Arduino Integration, New Remote Desktop Software For VMs
While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren't slowing down and there's been some interesting activity to report this week...
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