The Popular Opensource 3D Software Blender Arrives on Android and iPad Tablets lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software
Another hit to the open-source Intel software ecosystem this year was the company formally archiving/discontinuing work on the PlaidML deep learning software. PlaidML was the deep learning framework that Intel acquired back in 2018 as part of their acquisition of Vertex.AI. PlaidML had a goal of "deep learning for every platform" but unfortunately those ambitions didn't mate…
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Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release. With Linux 6.16 imminent, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting features in this next Linux kernel version...
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Bcachefs Lands Last Minute Fixes For Linux 6.16
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 stable kernel expected to be released on Sunday, some last minute Bcachefs file-system fixes join various other kernel regression/bug fixes landing today in Git...
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Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything
: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years awayGareth Halfacree (The Register)
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately. For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is extensively optimized for x86_64 processors via aggressive compiler tuning, various patches to the Linux kernel an…
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Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed! lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Threadripper 9000 Series Available On 31 July, 9980X For $4999 USD
Last month AMD detailed the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series as the new Zen 5 Threadrippers. After the Threadripper PRO 9000WX Series debuted this week, AMD announced today that the Threadripper 9000 series will begin hitting retailers next week...
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Wayback 0.1 debuts as early Wayland server for X11 diehards lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Wayback 0.1 debuts as early Wayland server for X11 diehards
: Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be carefulLiam Proven (The Register)
Debian Plans Long-Awaited Wiki Modernization lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Debian Plans Long-Awaited Wiki Modernization
The Debian Wiki is set to get a revamp as the project transitions to MediaWiki, leaving behind the aging MoinMoin platform.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
FreeBSD 15 Installer to Include Built-in KDE Plasma Desktop Option lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release
Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of various (non-UEFI) BIOS systems...
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Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release
Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of vari…www.phoronix.com
not sure I like that direction, there are plenty of cases or modern systems that only support EFI, e.g. install Linux on a MacPro T2 with Intel chip. Runs only with EFI boot (Ubuntu installed in my case)
Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes
Immich 1.136 brings a major breaking change to media paths—users with relative paths must update to absolute paths and run a database migration tool.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Blender Now Supports Properly Importing & Exporting HDR Videos lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Blender Now Supports Properly Importing & Exporting HDR Videos
In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos.lxer.com
Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think? lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Microsoft-owned GitHub: Open source needs funding. Ya think?
: 'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at homeGareth Halfacree (The Register)
Attempt to workaround currently pending bug with Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumblweed lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Attempt to workaround currently pending bug with Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumblweed
See https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/issues/1053 I have to notice that during business day 07/24/25 " Mylinuxforwork" suggested ...lxer.com
Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver
Ayn is a Chinese brand of handheld gaming devices that have included Arm-based devices shipping Android as well as AMD Ryzen powered handhelds with Windows 11 or even the option of installing Ubuntu. Better support for the Ayn x86 gaming handheld devices is on the way with patches posted for a new Ayn platform driver for the Linux kernel...
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Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust
Greenboot is a generic health check framework for systemd on RPM-OSTree based Linux distributions. Red Hat engineers have worked on Greenboot as part of the likes of Fedora IoT and their other RPM-OSTree initiatives for checking on the overall system health with ease...
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Fedora 43 Looks To Offer Support For The Hare Programming Language
Fedora 43 is looking to offer packages to support the Hare system programming language...
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Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV
Following the Vulkanised 2025 presentation how NVIDIA is finding great success with Vulkan for AI / machine learning and already competitive to CUDA in some areas, Red Hat engineer and DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie began exploring the potential of Mesa Vulkan drivers for AI inferencing. He was successful in using the Intel ANV, NVIDIA …
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Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV
Following the Vulkanised 2025 presentation how NVIDIA is finding great success with Vulkan for AI / machine learning and already competitive to CUDA in some areas, Red Hat engineer and DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie began exploring the po…www.phoronix.com
New AMD Linux Driver Ushers In Seamless Firmware Servicing "SFS"
A new Linux driver patch series posted by AMD today introduces a new kernel driver "SFS" for Seamless Firmware Servicing. I hadn't heard AMD talk about Seamless Firmware Servicing at any previous events but it appears to be supported for current-generation AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors...
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New AMD Linux Driver Ushers In Seamless Firmware Servicing "SFS"
A new Linux driver patch series posted by AMD today introduces a new kernel driver 'SFS' for Seamless Firmware Servicingwww.phoronix.com
Rolling With Rhino: The Ups and Downs of a Reinvented Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Rolling With Rhino: The Ups and Downs of a Reinvented Linux - FOSS Force
Unconventional, opinionated, and undeniably unique — Rhino Linux might change the way you see your desktop. Or at least keep you guessing.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64
One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems.lxer.com
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How to Fix “Docker: Invalid Reference Format” Error lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
How to Fix "Docker: Invalid Reference Format" Error - Make Tech Easier
Learn how to fix Docker's "Invalid Reference Format" error by understanding image naming rules, tags, variables, and syntax.Anees Asghar (Make Tech Easier)
Linux 6.16 Brings Some Minor Performance Boosts For Strix Halo's Radeon Graphics
With the Linux 6.16 kernel that will be debuting as stable as soon as this coming Sunday there are some minor performance benefits for the Radeon integrated graphics with the incredible Strix Halo SoC. Here are some comparison benchmarks of Linux 6.15 vs. Linux 6.16 Git for the AMD Radeon graphics of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop...
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PipeWire 1.4.7 Released with Echo Cancellation and Latency Fixes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
PipeWire 1.4.7 Released with Echo Cancellation and Latency Fixes
PipeWire 1.4.7 multimedia framework is out now, offering improved echo cancellation latency handling, enhanced resampling, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
The Ubuntu Concept ISO images that contain experimental patches -- or "hacks" to make things work -- to enable Ubuntu Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops is out with a fresh spin. The new Ubuntu Concept ISOs move to using the Linux 6.16 kernel while also enabling some additional Snapdragon X laptop models...
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Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
The Ubuntu Concept ISO images that contain experimental patches -- or 'hacks' to make things work -- to enable Ubuntu Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops is out with a fresh spinwww.phoronix.com
The slowness of progress in the area of production level Snapdragon support in Linux is painful.
I still like Linux so much more than MacOS that it's worth being on the x86 side, but there's some envy at that great Apple hardware.
Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features
The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features…lxer.com
Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support
An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag...
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AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs
Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his latest set of 16 patches into Mesa 25.3-devel for enhancing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Notable here is getting OpenGL sparse textures working on the latest Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4/GFX12 graphics cards...
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The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64
One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...
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Fortifying Ubuntu's Root with sudo'rs: How Rust Reinforces Privilege Escalation lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
OPNsense 25.7 Brings Revamped GUI and New Firewall Tools lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
OPNsense 25.7 Brings Revamped GUI and New Firewall Tools
OPNsense 25.7 open-source firewall and routing platform is out now, featuring a refreshed frontend, SFTP backups, and FreeBSD 14.3 under the hood.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out..lxer.com
KDE Desktop Environment Comes to FreeBSD 15.0 Installer lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
KDE Desktop Environment Comes to FreeBSD 15.0 Installer
FreeBSD 15.0 aims to introduce a KDE desktop installation option, allowing users to boot directly into a graphical login with minimal setup required.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Futuristic KDE Plasma Customization | Purple Mecha Cyberpunk lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Futuristic KDE Plasma Customization | Purple Mecha Cyberpunk
Futuristic KDE Plasma Customization | Purple Mecha CyberpunkGlobal themes: Gently (Gently-Dark-global-6)Color: Custom Color purple , Xeno (Xeno-Opaque)Applic...YouTube
LILYGO T-Watch Ultra Features ESP32-S3, AMOLED Display, GNSS, and LoRa Connectivity lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
LILYGO T-Watch Ultra Features ESP32-S3, AMOLED Display, GNSS, and LoRa Connectivity LILYGO T-Watch Ultra Features ESP32-S3, AMOLED Display, GNSS, and LoRa Connectivity
LILYGO has unveiled the T-Watch Ultra, a multifunctional smartwatch platform that integrates wireless connectivity, location tracking, long-range communication, and intelligent motion sensing in a compact form.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
ForkServer in Firefox 141: No More Restarts and Better Performance on Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
General Purpose Linux Distros Explained lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
General-Purpose Linux Distros Explained
Learn what general-purpose Linux distros are and why they’re the go-to choice for many desktop and server users.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck
: But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than othersLiam Proven (The Register)
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