Fedora 44’s proposal to drop i686 support has been withdrawn following backlash, especially over its potential impact on Linux gaming.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10
AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, here are some benchmarks looking at the performance of these popular …
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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Deepin 25, Plasma 6.4.1, Firefox 140, Wine 10.11, the curious case of XLibre Xserver, Hyprland launches subscription plan, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol
KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support...
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KDE developers are improving its clock 'KClock' app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support.www.phoronix.com
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release.lxer.com
AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues
Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into problems if the Linux server has only 2TB of system RAM... But a new patch series was posted today in…
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Ubuntu maker Canonical reported a 2024 revenue increase to $292M, driven by strong enterprise subscriptions and US market dominance.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release
Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS...
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Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide 'accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs.www.phoronix.com
Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...
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Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages
A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...
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Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4
The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...
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Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the 'Alpha 1' releases.lxer.com
Incus 6.14 is out now, bringing security fixes, performance boosts, and new features like S3 backup uploads and customizable snapshot expiry.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Wayback: experimental layer to run X desktop environments on Wayland
With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future. Alpine Linux, a distribution focused on musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC, also wants to reduce its maintenance bur
This week, Orange Pi previewed its upcoming Orange Pi Nova, a single-board computer developed in collaboration with Loongson.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems.lxer.com
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 140 ESR, KDE Plasma 6.4.1, GIMP 3.2, PipeWire 1.4.6, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
GPD has shared early information about the MicroPC 2 on Indiegogo, describing it as an updated version of its ultra-compact computer for mobile technical tasks and on-site troubleshooting. The device measures about 171 × 110 × 23.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...
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Wayback is a new experimental minimal Wayland compositor that supports Xwayland, letting X apps function without a full X server.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Our morning after report on how Google's new open source Gemini CLI started acting as if it were on mind altering drugs.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...
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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics
It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...
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It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the 'Cyan Skillfish' support to some new APU devices.www.phoronix.com
Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland
Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...
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GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes
Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...
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Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the 'Alpha 1' releases.www.phoronix.com
KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year.lxer.com
AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter
With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...
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: Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22%Dan Robinson (The Register)
The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolationlxer.com
OBS Studio 31.0.4 fixes crashes related to media sources with no video size and improves stability for macOS 13 and Linux users.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI program…lxer.com
Detailed instructions as of 06.28.25 Installation via Dotfiles Installer (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora 42 Dual DE (Gnome && KDE Plasma) As of ...lxer.com
Disagreements over late-stage fixes and developer conduct led Linus Torvalds to drop Bcachefs from the upcoming Linux kernel 6.17 release.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Wine 10.11 brings fixes and early NTSync groundwork, improving Windows app compatibility on Linux with 25 bug fixes and WIDL enhancements.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Libre Computer has released new firmware updates for its low-cost single-board computers, the AML-A311D-CC Alta and the AML-S905D3-CC Solitude.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
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 enginelxer.com
In collaboration with Inria, at look at the progress made over the past year on the CoccinelleForRust project.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
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