MagicaVoxel: A 3D Pixel Art App That Still Works on Linux via Wine!
MagicaVoxel is one of those applications you can use to create voxel-based artwork think of it like pixel art, but in 3D. Creating objects ...Illyaz (Jago Desain)
Linux 6.16 Will Begin Reporting The Cause Of Your AMD Zen System Being Reset/Rebooted
In the event of your AMD Ryzen or EPYC system being randomly reset or unexpectedly rebooted under Linux, the Linux kernel with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle is gaining the ability to report the reason for that reset. This is making use of a technical capability found going back to the AMD Zen 1 processors that the Linux kernel is now tapping into f…
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MoltenVK 1.3 Released For Vulkan 1.3 Support On Apple Devices
The MoltenVK 1.3 release candidate didn't end up needing much baking and overnight the MoltenVK 1.3 stable release was issued for Vulkan 1.3 API support on Apple devices that is built atop Apple's Metal drivers...
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Bcachefs Lands More Fixes As It Works Toward Better Self-Healing & Automatic Repair
This week's batch of Bcachefs file-system fixes have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc5 test kernel due out on Sunday...
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Compare Files Line by Line Using diff Command in Linux: A Beginner's Tutorial
This detailed guide explains how to compare files and directories in Linux using the diff command with practical examples.sk (OSTechNix)
Redis 'returns' to open source with AGPL license
: New plan may remain too restrictive for some developersLindsay Clark (The Register)
Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Open Source Labs Badly Needs Your Help! - FOSS Force
OSL, which among other things provides hosting for over 500 FOSS projects from all over the world, finds itself needing a helping hand.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Tails 6.15 Update Drops Support for Legacy Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips
Tails 6.15 privacy-focused Linux distro updates Tor Browser to 14.5.1 and kernel to v6.1.135.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Setup firewalld and KVM on openSUSE Leap 16 Beta manually
Finally I had decided to skip deployment templates for KVM Host and Cockpit Web Console for openSUSE Leap 16 Beta KVM Guest. Due to absen...lxer.com
Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development
Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now formally open for development.lxer.com
OpenZFS 2.3.2 Released With Linux 6.14 Compatibility
OpenZFS 2.3.2 is out today with a number of bug fixes for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems. With OpenZFS 2.3.2 also comes official support for the Linux 6.14 stable series...
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Valve Releases Steam Survey Results For April 2025
Like clockwork with the start of the new month comes the updated Steam Survey results from Valve to reflect the latest Linux gaming hardware and software trends...
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Plasma LTS Releases Being Discontinued, Better KDE Telemetry Like Valve's Steam Survey
KDE Plasma open-source developers were meeting the past week in Graz, Austria to plot out fundamental changes and improvements moving forward for this great desktoplxer.com
Plasma LTS Releases Being Discontinued, Better KDE Telemetry Like Valve's Steam Survey
KDE Plasma open-source developers were meeting the past week in Graz, Austria to plot out fundamental changes and improvements moving forward for this great desktop. Among the changes decided on were ending their practice of Plasma LTS releases, enhancing the telemetry capabilities to be more useful, and more...
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Tigera extends cloud-native networking with Calico 3.30
Open-source Calico 3.30 introduces staged policies that allow administrators to test network policy changes before implementation and flow logging capabilities that were previously only available in Tigera's commercial offerings.Sean Michael Kerner (Network World)
Thunderbird joins Firefox on the monthly treadmill
: We'll see if messaging client can keep up with sibling browserLiam Proven (The Register)
Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3
Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced …
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Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development
Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now formally open for development...
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Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development
Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now formally open for development.www.phoronix.com
openSUSE Leap 16 Beta Launches with Wayland and SELinux by Default
openSUSE Leap 16 Beta is now available, adopting SELinux by default, offering a stable base from SLE 16, kernel 6.12, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
GCC 15 Compiler Demonstrating Measurable Performance Gains For AMD EPYC Turin
With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build failures, and other refinements, there is the never-ending quest of compiler performance optimizations. Since the recent GCC 15.1 release candidate I've been testing this annual compiler feature release on more hardware, inc…
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Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux
Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation. Mediatek engineers testing these patches on their handheld Linux devices have found huge benefit in alleviating memory pressure and enhancing system responsiveness...
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LibreOffice Begins Landing Zstd Integration
LibreOffice supports Zip compression for ODT and DOCX files, among other compression uses. There's now work beginning to be merged for supporting Zstandard (Zstd) compression moving forward...
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Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15
As a follow-up to the Phoronix article a few days ago entitled A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs, there continues to be activity to address this issue with the performance impact catching the upstream kernel developers off guard. I've tested a patch now that does address the issue while still carrying the KVM protections desired...
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Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15
As a follow-up to the Phoronix article a few days ago entitled A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs, there continues to be activity to address this issue with the performance impact catching the upstream kernel developers off guar…www.phoronix.com
Framework 13 With Strix Point, Cheap RISC-V & Linux Kernel Happenings Topped April
During the past month on Phoronix were 249 original news articles and another 23 featured Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting topics in April from the launch of the Framework Laptop 13 powered by AMD Strix Point, an interesting and cheap RISC-V board coming about, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 proving …
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Intel Makes "AI Flame Graphs" Open-Source
Intel's AI Flame Graphs software is now open-sourcelxer.com
Sculpt OS 25.04 Released With Support For Intel Meteor Lake
Sculpt OS 25.04 hasbeen released as the newest version of this general purpose OS built atop the Genode OS operating system framework...
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OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding
For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that often are mirrored at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). The OSU OSL over the past two decades has also provided VMs for various architectures from x86 and AArch64 to POWER for CI and testing purposes to op…
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Libreboot 25.04 Open-Source Boot Firmware Released
Libreboot 25.04 "Corny Calamity" open-source boot firmware debuts with a new YY.MM versioning scheme, broad distro support, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Thunderbird 138 Adds New Default Color Override for High Contrast Mode on Linux - 9to5Linux
Thunderbird 138 open-source email client is now available for download with new default color override for High Contrast mode on Linux.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux
Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux.lxer.com
BTW Windows Subsystem for Linux officially uses Arch now
: The tryhard's favorite distro wins an approved home in Microsoft's OSLiam Proven (The Register)
Firefox 139 Beta Delivers Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance
Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support..lxer.com
DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes
For fans of the DragonFlyBSD operating system, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 has been released after two and a half years to ship various bug fixes for this popular BSD...
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PyXL: Run Python Code Directly In Hardware!
We all know Python. It's one of the most popular programming languages because it's…sk (OSTechNix)
UN Drops Google for CryptPad, an Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite - FOSS Force
The United Nations became the latest large organization to embrace CryptPad when it used it to replace Google Forms.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
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