Google's (and Others) Approach to Vendor Lock-In - FOSS Force
Our Marco Fioretti shares his thoughts on Google's (and others') bad boy behavior against Nextcloud (and others).Marco Fioretti (FOSS Force)
More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16
In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.lxer.com
AMD Announces ROCm-DS
AMD this evening announced ROCm-DS as a new toolkit for their ROCm compute stack to accelerate data processing workloads on Instinct accelerators...
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LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop
: Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love blingLiam Proven (The Register)
Samsung Back To Working On Upstreaming Tesla FSD SoC Support In The Linux Kernel
In early 2022 Samsung engineers began working on upstreaming support for the Tesla Full Self-Driving 'FSD' SoC to the mainline Linux kernellxer.com
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy
Opinion: There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on itRupert Goodwins (The Register)
Linux Scheduler Patches Aim To Address Performance Regressions Since Last Year
A set of Linux kernel scheduler patches posted today are trying to address some performance regressions observed since the Linux 6.11 kernel that was released back in September 2025. These performance-fixing patches are flying under a "request for comments" flag and some of the regressions are tricky and perhaps not completely resolved, but it looks to be…
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United States Federal Government's Digital Analytics Program (DAP): GNU/Linux Users Represent Close to 6% of Visitors This Year
How far has GNU/Linux gotten? Very far!Roy Schestowitz
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Released, This Is What's New
RHEL 10 debuts with built-in AI guidance, post-quantum cryptography, and streamlined OS-container management for modern hybrid infrastructure.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is Now Officially Open Source
After years of work, Microsoft has made the WSL code publicly available. Yes, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now officially Open Source!sk (OSTechNix)
Red Hat & AMD Collaborating To Further Enhance Open-Source GPU Stack For AI
In addition to AMD being involved with Red Hat on the new llm-d open-source project for Gen AI, AMD and Red Hat also announced today further collaboration around open-source GPU/accelerator support for AI workloads...
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Red Hat Announces The llm-d Open-Source Project For Gen AI
In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...
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Some Minor Performance Hits Observed With New Intel Arrow Lake 0x118 CPU Microcode
Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection. In this article today are some benchmarks looking at the performance difference from simply upgrading to the new CPU microcode on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" desktop system...
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LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha 1 Released With Performance Optimizations
The first alpha release of LibreOffice 25.8 is now available for testing of this cross-platform, free software office suite...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Formally Announced, Joined By RISC-V Developer Preview
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 GA images have been available for download since last week, Red Hat used the Red Hat Summit this week in Boston to formally announce the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 availability...
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VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support
VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux...
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Adaptive Sharpness Property Still Being Worked On For Intel Lunar Lake & Newer On Linux
Since last summer Intel open-source driver engineers have been working to make use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening capabilities under Linux. This is being done via a proposed DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences while the hardware capabilities within Lunar Lake equate to minimal power and performance costs when in us…
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These all just look like the same image with the saturation boosted, no?
Edit: Actually the bottom right one does seem to have some sharpening going on with the colour bands, but it looks pretty bad.
Intel Enabling Platform Temperature Control Interface For Linux 6.16
Queued up within the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch is enabling support for the Intel Platform Temperature Control Interface...
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Intel Enabling Platform Temperature Control Interface For Linux 6.16
Queued up within the Linux power management subsystem's 'linux-next' branch is enabling support for the Intel Platform Temperature Control Interface.www.phoronix.com
More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16
In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nova driver for future open-source NVIDIA GPU support is set to become a bit more full with this next kernel release...
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Rust Abstractions For CPUFreq Prepped For Linux 6.16
More Rust programming language abstractions are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle to allow for more areas where Rust-based drivers can be created for the kernel...
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New Patch Series Allows OverlayFS To Work With Casefolding
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet posted ap atch series today enabling use of the OverlayFS file-system in cojunction with an underlying file-system supporting case-folding for case insensitive files/folders/..
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Boardcon Idea3576 SBC Showcases RK3576 SoC with CAN Bus and Dual Gigabit Ethernet Boardcon Idea3576 SBC Showcases RK3576 SoC with CAN Bus and Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Boardcon has recently introduced the Idea3576, a compact single-board computer built around the Rockchip RK3576. Key features include CAN, RS485, 4G connectivity, and support for Debian 12.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu
Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions...
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FUSE To Enjoy A Performance Improvement With Linux 6.16
Queued up via the FUSE 'for-next' Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance.lxer.com
Solution for raw.githubusercontent.com PORT 443: Connection refused
Fixing the annoying error "Failed to connect to raw.githubusercontent.com port 443: Connection refused" during the download process from GitHub.Linux TLDR
Intel Adds OpenMP Multi-Threading To Its Speedy x86-simd-sort Library
Intel's x86-simd-sort open-source project is a C++ template library for high performance sorting routines that can leverage AVX2 and AVX-512 for crazy fast sorting. The x86-simd-sort code in turn is used by Numpy, more recently adopted by PyTorch too, and has shown off the great performance potential of AVX-512 for very fast sorting algorithms. Out today is x86-simd-sort …
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Samsung Back To Working On Upstreaming Tesla FSD SoC Support In The Linux Kernel
In early 2022 Samsung engineers began working on upstreaming support for the Tesla Full Self-Driving "FSD" SoC to the mainline Linux kernel. Those early patches were mainlined in Linux 5.18 and later in 2022 turned to working on the PCIe support for the Tesla FSD SoC with the mainline kernel, but then work seemingly ceased on this upstreaming effort. Mo…
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Samsung Back To Working On Upstreaming Tesla FSD SoC Support In The Linux Kernel
In early 2022 Samsung engineers began working on upstreaming support for the Tesla Full Self-Driving 'FSD' SoC to the mainline Linux kernelwww.phoronix.com
Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16
Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge windowlxer.com
Avaota Previews C1 SBC in Raspberry Pi A Form Factor with Allwinner H618 Avaota Previews C1 SBC in Raspberry Pi A Form Factor with Allwinner H618
Avaota has recently shared details about the C1, a compact single-board computer in the Raspberry Pi A form factor.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
GIMP 3.0.4 Is Out Focused on Fixes
GIMP 3.0.4 is out, bringing bug fixes, UI polish, and performance improvements—especially for font handling and non-destructive filters.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Microsoft Makes "Edit" Command Line Editor Open-Source, WSL Going Open-Source Too
Microsoft kicked off its Build 2025 developer conference today with some open-source announcements...
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Microsofters Issuing Threats to Microsoft Critics Who Blog About Microsoft
So far we see that theirRoy Schestowitz
Intel Gaudi 3 PCIe Accelerator Cards Now Available - Still Waiting On Upstream Linux Driver
In addition to announcing the Arc Pro B-Series workstation graphics cards and "Project Battlematrix" Linux software improvements, Intel also used Computex 2025 for announcing that Gaudi 3 accelerators are now available in PCIe card form factors and rack scale systems...
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Intel Gaudi 3 PCIe Accelerator Cards Now Available - Still Waiting On Upstream Linux Driver
In addition to announcing the Arc Pro B-Series workstation graphics cards and 'Project Battlematrix' Linux software improvements, Intel also used Computex 2025 for announcing that Gaudi 3 accelerators are now available in PCIe card form factors and r…www.phoronix.com
Intel Announces Arc Pro B-Series, "Project Battlematrix" Linux Software Improvements
Intel is using Computex 2025 to showcase their new Arc Pro B-Series graphics cards that will be available in Q3 for professional use-cases as well as focusing on AI inference workstations and edge computing workloads. Plus they are noting some significant improvements coming to their Linux software stack.
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Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16
Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. So barring any surprises, this next version of the Linux kernel will feature preliminary open-source mainline kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs...
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Device Memory TCP TX Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.16
Google engineers the past few years have been working on Device Memory TCP for the Linux kernel to allow zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions such as device memory attached directly to a GPU or AI accelerator or other device memory accessible with DMA-BUF. For Linux 6.12 that initial Device Memory TCP receive support was merged while slated for the upcoming Linu…
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Device Memory TCP TX Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.16
Google engineers the past few years have been working on Device Memory TCP for the Linux kernel to allow zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions such as device memory attached directly to a GPU or AI accelerator or other device memory ac…www.phoronix.com
PowerVR Rogue BXS-4-64 GPU Firmware Uploaded To linux-firmware.git
For going along with kernel DRM driver changes expected for the Linux 6.16 kernel, the Imagination PowerVR BXS-4-64 GPU firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for readying that open-source driver support for this PowerVR Rogue GPU...
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FUSE To Enjoy A Performance Improvement With Linux 6.16
Queued up via the FUSE "for-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance...
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FUSE To Enjoy A Performance Improvement With Linux 6.16
Queued up via the FUSE 'for-next' Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance.www.phoronix.com
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