Released last week, this minor point release of KDE Plasma 6.4 packs enough new features to make it worth your attention.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
interview: Learning from the lessons of the pastRichard Speed (The Register)
Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn
The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...
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Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
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AVX-512's Enormous Advantage On AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost ef…
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The AMD EPYC 4005 'Grado'' processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition.www.phoronix.com
: Split your shell for fun and profit – even over remote connectionsLiam Proven (The Register)
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.lxer.com
RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...
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The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton.www.phoronix.com
Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance
With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those that may prefer running their system(s) hotter in order to enjoy better performance...
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Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...
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Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more.lxer.com
Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...
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PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...
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The Intel Graphics Compiler 'IGC' 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics drive…lxer.com
Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use.lxer.com
: The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacyThomas Claburn (The Register)
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux.lxer.com
Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...
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KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
: Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copiesIain Thomson (The Register)
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …lxer.com
This post is immediate follow up for https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/354995/index.html Hyprpaper is a fast Wayland wallpaper utilit...lxer.com
Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3
While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...
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While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration uti…www.phoronix.com
Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...
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Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
mmc-utils 1.0 Released For Managing MMC Storage On Linux
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux...
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KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is a bugfix release that improves translations and refines your desktop experience across KWin, Discover, Plasma Desktop, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Performing Well, Achieving Faster Results On AMD EPYC 9005 Series
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use. Jiving with what I had seen out of RHEL 10 beta performance and general expectations considering the plethora of software upgrades from RHEL 9 to RHEL 10, the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 releas…
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It’s funny how useful a 34-year-old software design can still be.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 Continues Baking Panther Lake, More Optimizations
Building off this morning's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 is now the updated Intel Compute Runtime 25.22.33944.8 as their June 2025 feature release...
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Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 open-source and free disk cloning and imaging tool is now available for download with various changes and updates.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
GIMP 3.1.2 gives a first look at what’s coming in GIMP 3.2, including non-destructive editing, new file format support, and system theme integration.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
After struggling with WordPress comments & Disqus, I found wpDiscuz! Discover why this open-source alternative was my choice for better engagement & privacy.Djalel Oukid (Linux-Tech&More)
Fedora 43 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages
Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 43 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for …
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Cryptsetup 2.8 Released With Support For Inline Hardware Metadata Space
Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more...
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RadeonSI Lands Shared Virtual Memory "SVM" Support For Mesa 25.2
Adding to the many graphics driver features to look forward to with next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is now Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
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Intel Graphics Compiler 2.12.5 Brings Fixes, C++20 Compatibility Updates
The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics driver...
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The Intel Graphics Compiler 'IGC' 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics drive…www.phoronix.com
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