Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer
Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella. Today marks the release of Wayback 0.1 as the first preview release for this X11 compatibili…
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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... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, including multiple new tools and other additions...
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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...
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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…www.phoronix.com
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...
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Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...
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Immutable Linux distributions are gaining traction by making core file systems unchangeable — offering enhanced security, improved stability, and simplified maintenance.Grant Knoetze (ITPro Today)
Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17
With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this copy-on-write file-system in Linux 6.17...
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OVMF Debug Log Driver Slated For Linux 6.17 To Help Analyze UEFI VM Boot Issues
For those making use of Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) such as for UEFI booting of VMs with KVM+QEMU, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is set to offer a convenient new driver to help in debugging the system boot when needed...
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Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis
Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives...
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The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language.lxer.com
Cloud Hypervisor 47 Provides Nicer Error Messages
Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all contributing. Even with Intel's cutbacks due to their ongoing corporate restructuring, the Cloud Hypervisor project is thriving as a multi-vendor open-s…
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Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all cont…www.phoronix.com
Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs
The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...
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The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator 'accel' subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs.www.phoronix.com
Mozilla Thunderbird 141 open-source email client is out now with a new Archive button, better OpenPGP key handling, and a wide range of bug fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment.lxer.com
These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.Haroon Javed (Make Tech Easier)
The Master will easily understand why Garrett has been attacking me since 2012Roy Schestowitz
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…lxer.com
: Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by defaultTim Anderson (The Register)
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install Option
The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...
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Google launches the OSS Rebuild project to verify open source packages and combat supply chain attacks through reproducible builds.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Linux firewall distro is now available for download with improvements to WireGuard support and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Python 3.14 RC1 Released With Free-Threaded Python Officially Supported
The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...
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: The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weaknessLiam Proven (The Register)
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release.lxer.com
Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...
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The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…www.phoronix.com
Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux firmware update tool speeds up startup by 60%, lowers memory use, and adds support for new MediaTek, HP, and Logitech devices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Apple Silicon SoC/DT Changes Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17
Sven Peter today sent out all of the Apple SoC driver and DeviceTree (DT) updates aiming for the soon-to-happen Linux 6.17 merge window...
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A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops
While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal wit…
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While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered 'Windows on Arm' laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of 'hacked packages' to lead to a decent user experiencewww.phoronix.com
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...
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AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs
A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...
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Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver
Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver...
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Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream 'Panthor' DRM kernel graphics driver for Linuxwww.phoronix.com
Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...
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Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driverlxer.com
: You only live once, but regret is foreverThomas Claburn (The Register)
: Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediatelyRichard Speed (The Register)
The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser.lxer.com
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