Pinta 3.0 has landed. This popular open-source graphics editor intros a refreshed interface, new effects, and plenty of usability buffs. omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/pinta-…
Indulging your casual creativity (read: making memes, defacing selfies, etc) using open-source tools is made easier with the long-awaited release of Pinta 3.0. Pinta, as long-time Linux users will ...
Linux 6.16 Could See AMD SEV-SNP SVSM vTPM Driver Merged For EPYC CPUs
The Linux 6.16 kernel this summer will likely see the new SNP SVSM vTPM driver introduced for further enhancing the AMD EPYC confidential computing capabilities atop the mainline Linux kernel... phoronix.com/news/Linux-SNP-SV…
Hello, if you care about Servo, the alternative web browser engine that was originally slated to be the next gen Firefox but now is a donation-supported project under the Linux Foundation, you should know of this week's Developments.
Specifically Servo announced a plan to, as of June, start allowing Servo code to be written by "Github Copilot":
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Servo is considering:
- allowing some AI tools for non-code contributions
- allowing maintainers to use GitHub Copilot for some code contributions over the next 12 months
These changes are planned to take effect in June 2025, bu…
There has been a public comment period on this plan, with public comment so far overwhelmingly negative. I'm not sure how this response will impact the plan; the announcement said enactment was "subject to a review of your feedback", whatever that means.
Personally I think the plan is a horrible idea on both technical and moral grounds, and would end Servo's current frontrunner status as the best candidate for a browser that truly represents the open web and respects the needs of its own users.
Please do not respond to this thread to talk about Ladybird. This is a personal request from me. Just… please. Don't make me have a conversation about Ladybird today. Some other time
Oh god, this is what I feel as an artist about using AI for art too, it's practically designed to introduce the exact sort of mistakes that's really hard to catch cus everything LOOKS mostly correct. The main difference is that when this happens with art, you just get art that looks kind of bad, but when this happens to code, you can easily fuck up the entire week for a lot of people.
@Owlor This is how unsafe code works in Rust, the point is to limit the danger zones to just those blocks... but a subtly wrong unsafe block can still cause the whole program to be UB. That's why we have humans write and check them. It works because it's not a lot of code so it's feasible to analyze and (at least informally) prove correct.
I dread the idea of LLMs writing the kind of subtle unsafe{} stuff that you end up using in real Rust projects because LLMs absolutely cannot reason about the subtleties of safety, invariants, etc., especially in more complex codebases.
A Fresh Take On Virtual Swap Space Being Pursued For The Linux Kernel
A request for comments (RFC) patch series sent out this week for the Linux kernel is working on the notion of Virtual Swap Space support. The notion of Virtual Swap Space has been talked about for years and even going back to 2011 there's been efforts to redesign the kernel's swap cache along similar lines... phoronix.com/news/Linux-Virtua…
NVIDIA Upstreaming Work For Linux On Their Smart Switch SN4280, SN5610, SN5640
One of many Linux kernel patch series that NVIDIA has been working on recently to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel are the adjustments needed for Linux running on their newest Smart Switch networking products for the data center... phoronix.com/news/Smart-Switch…
KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop... phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-…
For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver
GNOME Now Has A Second Core App Written In TypeScript
GNOME 48 made Decibels the desktop's official audio player and in doing so also became the first GNOME core application written in the TypeScript porting language. There's now a second core app for GNOME written in TypeScript... phoronix.com/news/GNOME-2nd-Co…
AMD Releases ROCm 6.4 Without Any Official RDNA4 Support
After several ROCm 6.3 point releases, AMD today rolled out ROCm 6.4 as the next update to their open-source GPU/accelerator compute stack and ahead of their big Advancing AI event in June where they will talk about future ROCm work... phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.4…
Running Linux 6.15 vs. 6.14 Performance With The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360
So far my testing this week of the Linux 6.15 kernel in its early, post-RC1 state has been going well. No major upsets, yet to uncover any significant performance regressions, and overall has been going smoothly with the many new features/changes in Linux 6.15... phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-R…
Another update to our anti-cheat compatibility page. Users logged in can send in a request for a game to be listed now too, on top of the reports for existing games added earlier: gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/
Marvel Rivals has been updated with Season 2 by NetEase Games which brings in a new experimental shader compiler mode and other new content. However, it's causing problems for Desktop Linux players where nothing appears after hitting play.
Intel Preps VRR Refactoring For Linux 6.16, More Xe3 Panther Lake Display Enablement
Intel graphics driver engineers today sent out their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the next Linux 6.16 kernel cycle... phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-Ne…
Logged in users can now hit the little flag icon beside a game on our #Linux and #SteamDeck anti-cheat compatibility page to report a change to us: gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/
There's a whole lot of space dwarf action going on lately. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor now has a release date for the 1.0 release and we have new footage on the upcoming Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core too.
Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Fedora Workstation 42 Performance On AMD Strix Point
With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing this month you may be curious how these two Linux distributions are competing for performance. Well, it's a very tight race for common Intel/AMD x86_64 hardware. In this article are some benchmarks looking at clean installs of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on AMD Strix Point. phoronix.com/review/fedora-42-…
OpenVPN DCO Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised A 25th Time To Boost VPN Performance
For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver. This "data channel offload" driver has the potential to provide significant performance advantages over the current OpenVPN performance... phoronix.com/news/OpenVPN-DCO-…
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