GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49
GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer. There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of the GNOME desktop...
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Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability
Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues working on enhancements to Mesa's Zink driver for OpenGL implemented over the Vulkan API. A new merge request is further enhancing OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability by supporting the GL_NV_timeline_semaphore extension...
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Linux Patches Posted For Axiado AX3000 SoC Support
The newest Arm SoC seeing Linux kernel patches working their way toward the mainline kernel is the Axiado AX3000 as a security processor designed for cloud data center, network gear, and more...
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AMD Preps Some Compute Driver Fixes For Polaris & Hawaii Era GPUs With Linux 6.17
AMD today submitted their initial batch of "new stuff" for queuing into DRM-Next of their kernel graphics/compute driver changes they have prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle opening in a few weeks...
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AMD today submitted their initial batch of 'new stuff' for queuing into DRM-Next of their kernel graphics/compute driver changes they have prepared for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle opening in a few weeks.www.phoronix.com
Performance & Power Of The Low-Cost EPYC 4005 "Grado" vs. Original EPYC 7601 Zen 1 Flagship CPU
For those on very long server upgrade cycles, typically just running the hardware until failure or consider buying second-hand servers that are generations old for lower up-front cost, today's unique article is for you with quantifying a first-generation EPYC server compared to today's entry-level EPYC processors in performance and power efficienc…
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For those on very long server upgrade cycles, typically just running the hardware until failure or consider buying second-hand servers that are generations old for lower up-front cost, today's unique article is for you with quantifying a first-genera…www.phoronix.com
Canonical Decides To Double Down On Their Investment In Java For Ubuntu
Ubuntu maker Canonical has decided to "double down" their investment in OpenJDK Java for Ubuntu Linux...
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Ubuntu maker Canonical has decided to 'double down' their investment in OpenJDK Java for Ubuntu Linuxwww.phoronix.com
Gentoo Releases Updated Install Media Based On KDE Plasma 6.3 + Linux 6.12 LTS
The Gentoo Linux project ended the month of June by releasing new install media...
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Mesa 25.2 Should Have Initial Vulkan Support In Good Shape For NVIDIA Blackwell
The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely used by the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the NVK open-source driver for Vulkan usage...
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NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta
NVIDIA previously warned CUDA users that CUDA 12.x is the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. NVIDIA overnight now officially confirmed that the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta GPU support is going to end in their Linux driver with the upcoming NVIDIA R580 Linux driver series...
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Framework 12, AMD Strix Halo & Linux Kernel Improvements Were Most Popular In June
Over the course of last month on Phoronix were 240 original news articles written by your's truly as well as another 24 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. On top of that last month also marked the 21st birthday of Phoronix.com...
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digiKam 8.7 Released With AI Auto-Rotation Tool, OpenCV OpenCL + CUDA Support
The digiKam 8.7 professional photo management software has been released for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source solution for digital photography...
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AerynOS Tooling Now Written In Rust Rather Than D, New Software Updates
Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors "NomadicCore" and "Ermo" have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months...
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Coincidentally after writing this morning wondering about what's going on with AerynOS (formerly known as Serpent OS), contributors 'NomadicCore' and 'Ermo' have issued a new project update outlining what's been going on the past few months.www.phoronix.com
Intel's FFmpeg Cartwheel Brings Experimental Panther Lake Support
While Q2 is drawing to an end in the coming hours, Intel software engineers this evening just released the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2025Q1 update that provides all of their latest patches around Intel GPU/video acceleration for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library that have yet to be upstreamed into FFmpeg proper...
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While Q2 is drawing to an end in the coming hours, Intel software engineers this evening just released the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2025Q1 update that provides all of their latest patches around Intel GPU/video acceleration for this widely-used, open-s…www.phoronix.com
AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community.lxer.com
No more unofficial repos! Easily and safely install TUXEDO software on Fedora with the official TUXEDO Computers repository for drivers and Control Center.Djalel Oukid (Linux-Tech&More)
The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2.lxer.com
Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive
Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive...
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Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their 'Debcrafters' global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive.www.phoronix.com
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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