Sovereign Tech Agency Investing In GCC's Fortran Frontend "GFortran"
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (formerly Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing in GFortran for advancing this leading open-source Fortran code compiler...
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RISC-V and RISE Partner to a Take a Role in the Yocto Project - FOSS Force
The Yocto Project, RISC-V and the Rise Project working together in tandem can't be anything but good for the open source universe.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Fedora-Based Nobara Linux Goes Rolling
Nobara Linux 42 adopts Brave as default, offers kernel 6.14, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3.4, and a new universal flatpak manager.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
New Features Approved For Fedora 43
With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October...
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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12.23 LTS and Other Updates - 9to5Linux
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12.23 LTS and other updates.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Rustls Server-Side Performance Looking Very Good Compared To OpenSSL
Rustls as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language has long been showing promising performance and competitive to OpenSSL and other alternatives. In a fresh exploration of Rustls server-side performance, it's easily beating OpenSSL...
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LILYGO T-Embed SI4732 Combines ESP32 S3 with All Band Radio Tuning LILYGO T-Embed SI4732 Combines ESP32 S3 with All Band Radio Tuning
LILYGO has introduced a new version of its T-Embed series that incorporates the SI4732 A10 tuner module. This version supports AM, FM, shortwave, and longwave radio bands in a handheld format that visually resembles devices like the Flipper Zero.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
AMD Begins Process Of Preparing The Linux Kernel For Zen 6 CPUs
The first AMD Zen 6 patch for the Linux kernel has been queued up for submission soon to the mainline kernel...
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Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus
Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris "Common Build Environment" version that is essentially a community-supported. non-production version of Solaris intended for free / open-source software developers. Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE comes after not seeing any CBE updates the past three years and now rather unexpectedly seeing this …
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Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus
Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris 'Common Build Environment' version that is essentially a community-supportedwww.phoronix.com
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
Various Red Hat documentation pages began seeing updates yesterday along with RHEL 10.0 ISOs appearing in the customer download portal to reflect RHEL10 reaching general availability (GA) status...
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Jump into Firefox Labs: A place to try new features and help shape Firefox
Firefox Labs is our space for sharing experimental features with our community before they’re fully baked. It’s a chance to play around with new ideas, tell us what’s working (and what’s not) and help shape the future of Firefox together.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers)
Maybe when Microsoft said 3% it meant ~6,000 or more in the US aloneRoy Schestowitz
ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment ALPHA-One 7B Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment
PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One 7B, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04.lxer.com
Neptune OS - A German Distro With a Multimedia Focus - FOSS Force
This is the start of a new weekly feature on FOSS Force, which is officially going to run on Thursdays or Fridays (we're still deciding).Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
Branch Privilege Injection Vulnerability Disclosed For Intel CPUs
It was just yesterday that Training Solo was made public as a new speculative execution CPU vulnerability affecting some Intel and Arm CPUs... Today another one is now public for Intel processors: Branch Privilege Injection...
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GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities
GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues.lxer.com
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos
: Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things upSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Inkscape 1.4.2 Lands with Bug Fixes, Format Enhancements
Inkscape 1.4.2, an open-source vector graphics editor, is out, merging 1.4.1 with over 70 bug fixes, file import improvements, and new features.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance
With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P "Grado" entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting. With the prior-generation EPYC 4004 series AMD was already leaving over Int…
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AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance Review
With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P 'Grado' entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting.www.phoronix.com
AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers
Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualifications. Today they are launching the EPYC 4005 series as their new Zen 5 based offerings for entry-level / budget server deploym…
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AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers Review
Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualific…www.phoronix.com
Shotcut 25.05 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Alpha Strobe Video Filter - 9to5Linux
Shotcut 25.05 open-source video editor is now available for download with new filters, new options, and various improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...
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Traefik Proxy 3.4 Debuts with Distributed Rate-Limiting and Smarter Load Balancing
Traefik Proxy 3.4 “Chaource” arrives with distributed rate-limiting via Redis, P2C load balancing, custom server URLs, and more polished features.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...
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Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16
Queued within the development tree for the RISC-V processor code for the Linux kernel is supporting several new vendor-specific ISA extensions for SiFive RISC-V CPU cores.lxer.com
Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4
Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...
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NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs
The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors...
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NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs
The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the 'KeplerB' / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors.www.phoronix.com
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
: Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left offLiam Proven (The Register)
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance Review
We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful in…lxer.com
GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities
GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues...
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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"
Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...
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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"
Following Monday's public disclosure of the 'Training Solo' security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process.www.phoronix.com
Haiku OS Adds Support For More AMD Polaris GPUs & Other Changes In April
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their April 2025 progress report...
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Inkscape 1.4.2 Adds Initial Support for Importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve Files - 9to5Linux
Inkscape 1.4.2 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with new features and enhancements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations
The Armbian development team has rolled out a series of notable updates this week, introducing enhancements across software usability, bootloader standardization, and hardware compatibility.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Adds Powerful Editing Tools
Shotcut 25.05 video editor lands with a new Alpha Strobe filter, Freeze Frame tool, UI enhancements, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs
At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUslxer.com
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