NumPy 2.3 Introduces OpenMP Parallelization Support
NumPy 2.3 is out today as the latest release of this widely-used library for scientific computing. Notable with NumPy 2.3 is finally adding some parallelization support via OpenMP...
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Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibre—a fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions.lxer.com
Linux 6.16 Preps For RISC-V's SBI Firmware Features Extension
The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...
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NVIDIA 575 Linux graphics driver is now available for download with NVIDIA Smooth Motion, Xwayland improvements, and many bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users
It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...
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Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point
Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...
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GNOME's Papers App Lands Better Annotations Experience
For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...
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Intel's Clear Linux Rolls Out Software Packaging Bundle Improvements
Intel's Clear Linux distribution has made some packaging improvements to help better suit the needs of its users...
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Linux 6.16 Lands Support For EcoNet MIPS Platforms
While there isn't much new MIPS activity taking place due to other CPU architectures like RISC-V and LoongArch taking the interest away, the MIPS code within the Linux kernel does continue seeing enhancements as well as upstreaming of hardware that has long been relegated to downstream kernels...
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While there isn't much new MIPS activity taking place due to other CPU architectures like RISC-V and LoongArch taking the interest away, the MIPS code within the Linux kernel does continue seeing enhancements as well as upstreaming of hardware that h…www.phoronix.com
Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16
Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices...
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KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut Next Week With Better VRR Experience
KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5...
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Luckfox has released the Pico 2 Micro Development Board, a compact module designed around Raspberry Pi’s RP2350A microcontroller.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Discover a step-by-step guide to install the Epic Games Store on Ubuntu via the heroic game launcher, lutris, and bottles with practical examples.Ubuntu Shell
Discover how Atoms, a user-friendly GUI tool, simplifies Linux chroot environment creation and management, making it easy for developers to focus on testing and development.Linux TLDR
Our look at the popular Linux distro EndeavourOS reveals a distro that's both easy to use and powerful enough for experienced users.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
This article was contributed by Vedrana Vidulin, Head of Responsible AI Unit at Intellias (LinkedIn). As AI becomes central to smart devices, embedded systems, and edge computing, the ability to run language models locally — without relying on the cl…Linux.com Editorial Staff (Linux.com)
Morse Micro and Gateworks Corporation have partnered to bring Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah) to industrial environments.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Fastfetch 2.45 system information tool adds support for OnePlus devices, new GPU vendors, KDE version detection on BSDs, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
New AMD-SBI Code Merged For Linux 6.16
New AMD code merged today to the mainline Linux 6.16 kernel that's in-development is the introduction of the AMD-SBI driver/subsystem for primarily benefiting EPYC server platforms. AMD-SBI is for their Side-Band Interface also known as the Advanced Platform Management Link (APML)...
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Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play
Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...
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Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel 'ANV' open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D.www.phoronix.com
Linux system administrators have seen remarkable salary growth leading into 2025, with the increasing reliance on Linux in enterprise IT and emerging technologies driving up demand significantly.Linux Jobs & Careers
LibreOffice 25.2.4 is now available for download as the fourth point release to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite with 52 bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Installation was performed via paru, which appears to be preinstalled on CachyOS 053025 (Gnome 48.2 as DM) . I have to notice that CachyO...lxer.com
Intel Linux Driver Patch Posted For Wildcat Lake NPU Accelerator Support
Last month Intel software engineers began posting Linux enablement patches for Wildcat Lake. Some of those first patches were merged for Linux 6.16 while more work is forthcoming. Posted yesterday for the first time on the Linux kernel mailing list was enabling the NPU accelerator support for Wildcat Lake...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compiler Performance
Since recently picking up a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop for Linux testing now that the Linux support is starting to evolve into better shape (albeit still with many rough corners limiting the daily usability of such devices with Linux), one of the areas I was curious about was looking at the performance of Linux binaries with GCC vs. LLVM Clang. Here are some benc…
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Box64 v0.3.6 Brings Better AVX Handling, Volatile Metadata For Windows Executables
Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals...
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The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo
While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8060S graphics, if going for the recently-released Linux 6.15 kernel there are some performance gains to enjoy as well as if opting for the latest Mesa 25.2 development code for the latest RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV …
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AMD's Kernel Compute Driver "AMDKFD" Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V
Following all of the Linux kernel graphics driver features merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel, sent out this morning were the initial batch of fixes to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code. Besides fixes to these graphics / display / accelerator drivers, there is one new feature: the AMDKFD kernel compute driver can now be enabled on RISC-V systems...
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KDE Gear 25.04.2 is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series with fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra PCIe Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.16
The many PCI subsystem changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Linux 6.16 NFS Client Exposes LOCALIO State Via sysfs
In addition to the NFS server changes for Linux 6.16 with now supporting larger I/O block sizes, the Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged this week for this next kernel version...
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More KVM Changes Merged For Linux 6.16: AMD "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" Merged
Following the Intel TDX host support for KVM being merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window, another batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were merged for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Mesa's modern Rust-written OpenCL driver for Gallium3D 'Rusticl' has closed one of the few remaining gaps with the former Clover OpenCL state trackerlxer.com
Here's how GitHub Copilot is reshaping software development — transforming DevOps and DevSecOps with AI-powered precision and scalability.Grant Knoetze (ITPro Today)
Karton is a new, still-in-development KDE-native virtual machine manager using libvirt, aiming to bring VM tools closer to the Plasma desktop experience.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Wireshark 4.4.7 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available to download with various bug and security fixes, and updated protocols.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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