OpenCode: An AI Coding Agent Like Claude Code, But For Any LLM lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL
Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the upcoming multi-device support...
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Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL
Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern 'Xe' kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cyclewww.phoronix.com
NovaCustom Launching An Intel Meteor Lake NUC Box Running On Dasharo/Coreboot
For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...
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Sparky Linux: “Takes the Options Ball and Runs With It!” lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Sparky Linux: "Takes the Options Ball and Runs With It!" - FOSS Force
Our reviewer dives into Sparky Linux and discovers a distro bursting with choices, flexibility, and user-friendly features.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
Linux's Ascendancy: Charting the Open-Source Surge in the Desktop OS Arena lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions
The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...
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Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster
Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefits in select workloads...
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Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster
Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA 'NAK' compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction schedulingwww.phoronix.com
Arduino and Red Pitaya Learning Lab Connects Makers with Real-World Engineering lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Arduino and Red Pitaya Learning Lab Connects Makers with Real-World Engineering Arduino and Red Pitaya Learning Lab Connects Makers with Real-World Engineering
Arduino and Red Pitaya have partnered to create a combined hardware bundle and structured curriculum designed to help students, educators, and hobbyists move from basic electronics projects to advanced signal analysis and real-world system prototypin…Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations
Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versions. The main headline of today's stable kernel releases are picking up the mitigations for the Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigations that were disclosed this week for AMD processors...
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Miracle-WM 0.6 Released with Rounded Corners Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Miracle-WM 0.6 Released with Rounded Corners Support
Miracle-WM 0.6.0 tiling Wayland window manager lands with rounded corners, runtime display management, smoother animations, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Blender 4.5 RC1 Released With Much Better Vulkan Support
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testing. There are many great improvements to find with Blender 4.5 and this new version is all the more important in being the next Long Term Support (LTS) release for this popular cross-platform 3D modeling software...
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LibreOffice 25.8 RC1 Released With Various File Performance Improvements
The first release candidate of the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite is now available for testing. This half-year update as the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office has been working on performance improvements for various file types, dropping support for old versions of Windows, and various other enhancements...
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Canonical Releases Multipass 1.16 As Now Fully Open-Source Project
Ubuntu maker Canonical today released Multipass 1.16 stable for this Linux / Windows / macOS means of deploying Ubuntu VM instances using this lightweight VM manager built atop Linux's KVM, Windows' Hyper-V, and QEMU on macOS. Notable with Multipass 1.16 is that it's now fully open-source software...
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Krita 5.2.10 Rolls Out with Bug Fixes Ahead of Major Feature Releases lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Krita 5.2.10 Rolls Out with Bug Fixes Ahead of Major Feature Releases
Krita 5.2.10, a free and open-source digital painting app, is out now with critical bug fixes, improved performance, and prep for Krita 5.3 and 6.0.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.17 Looks To Drop The pktcdvd Packet Writing CD/DVD Driver
Linux block maintainer Jens Axboe queued up a patch this week to drop the pktcdvd driver from the mainline kernel, which is expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle. The pktcdvd driver has been in the kernel for over two decades since the Linux 2.6 days for packet-writing CD/DVD support albeit is hardly useful in today's world...
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openSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support
The openSUSE project is currently contemplating if it's time to end support for 32-bit ARM devices...
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libinput 1.29 Improving Scroll Wheel Responsiveness For Most Devices
Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.29, the newest version of this input handling library used across both X.Org and Wayland environments with the modern Linux desktop...
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PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Red Hat Offers Free RHEL Access for Business Developers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Red Hat Offers Free RHEL Access for Business Developers
Red Hat’s new dev program, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers, gives teams no-cost access to RHEL on 25 systems.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux Kernel 6.14: A Leap Forward in Intel and AMD CPU Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland componentslxer.com
Dasharo Firmware 1.0.0 Is Coming to NovaCustom Linux Laptops lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Dasharo Firmware 1.0.0 Is Coming to NovaCustom Linux Laptops
Dasharo firmware 1.0.0 is arriving for NovaCustom Linux laptops, bringing stability improvements, bug fixes, and even better Linux integration.Djalel Oukid (Linux-Tech&More)
Amarok 3.3 Open-Source Music Player Is Out as First Release Fully Ported to Qt 6 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Amarok 3.3 Open-Source Music Player Is Out as First Release Fully Ported to Qt 6 - 9to5Linux
Amarok 3.3 open-source music player is now available for download as the first release ported to the latest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers
Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts.lxer.com
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted on FreeDesktop.org alongside other projects such as Wayland and the X.Org Server itself plus other prominent software like Mesa and GStreamer and much…
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PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Adds Map-Based Location Editor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
PhotoPrism AI-Powered Photos App Adds Map-Based Location Editor
PhotoPrism’s July 2025 release introduces Ollama AI support, enhanced search capabilities, and a new map-based location tool.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Thunderbird ESR is here: Mozilla's email client adds new functions
: Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates aheadLiam Proven (The Register)
Fedora 43 to Use Zstd Compression for Faster Boot and Smaller Initrd lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support
A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support...
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exa already works with dri3 or this just kills 2d acceleration where it was really useful (old low-end hardware)?
Brett Wilson LLP Sent Over 5KG Kilograms (or Over 12 Pounds) of Legal Papers! Because Writing About Microsoft Abuses is 'Illegal'. lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Brett Wilson LLP Sent Over 5 Kilograms (or Over 12 Pounds) of Legal Papers! Because Writing About Microsoft Abuses is 'Illegal'.
How do you guys sleep at night? On a big pile of Microsoft money?Roy Schestowitz
Linux Kernel Security in 2025: New Features and Emerging Threats lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Linux Kernel Security in 2025: New Features and Emerging Threats
There have been key security improvements in the Linux kernel as well as new threats. Here are best practices for hardening your Linux systems.Grant Knoetze (ITPro Today)
New ZLUDA 5 Preview Released For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
ZLUDA Version 5-preview.43 was released today as this open-source CUDA implementation for use on non-NVIDIA GPUs, with one of the current focuses being on enabling CUDA on AMD Radeon GPUs with ROCm...
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AMD's Epic Performance Gains From The Original EPYC 7601 To EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965
Last week I published fresh benchmarks showing how AMD's EPYC 4005 series for budget servers can outperform the original EPYC 7601 flagship processor when EPYC first launched during the Zen 1 period. Even with lower core counts and fewer memory channels, the modern EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors were able to outpace that original EPYC "Naples" flagship processor fr…
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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers
Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts...
phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL…
Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of the Mir code...
phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0…
Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind
Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from the Linux i915 to Xe kernel graphics drivers, the official SR-IOV support state on Intel graphics …
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GNOME 48.3 Adds Support for More Video/Audio Types in Nautilus’ Search Filter lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
GNOME 48.3 Adds Support for More Video/Audio Types in Nautilus' Search Filter - 9to5Linux
GNOME 48.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the GNOME 48.3 desktop environment with various enhancements and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2
The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver…
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Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser...
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Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia 'Graphite' as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by defaultwww.phoronix.com
PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features
The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...
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