ICMYI: Google has said it is 'combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform'.
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Google has said it is 'combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform'. Why is it happening, and will the merger mean the end of ChromeOS as a brand?Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
Super Productivity isn’t just another to-do app—it’s like having a personal project sidekick that actually gets it.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations
Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...
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12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced
Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors...
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More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver
It's a very busy week for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers leading up to the Mesa 25.2 code branching. On top of RADV ray-tracing improvements, Vulkan 1.2 conformance for Kepler GPUs, Xe3 Panther Lake graphics enabled by default, and many other last minute changes, over the past week has also been a push getting more AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 "…
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Over 160 games now on our anti-cheat page gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/
A page dedicated to showing you the expected compatibility for Steam Deck, Linux, SteamOS with games that have anti-cheat enabled.GamingOnLinux
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software.lxer.com
Umamusume: Pretty Derby now Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible and works on Desktop Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/umam…
#AntiCheat #SteamOS #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming
Another game with anti-cheat that released on Steam recently is Umamusume: Pretty Derby. Valve just rated it Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
LLVM 22 Eliminates The Final Support For Google Native Client "NaCl"
One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client "NaCl"...
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One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client 'NaCl'.www.phoronix.com
Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE built on open source VS Code by a team at Amazon, is available in preview for Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
You know, you don’t have to report everything just because it runs on Linux.
Besides, it sure reads like a promotional spot or press release.
ASRock Industrial has introduced a new developer kit based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform, designed to deliver high-performance AI computing at the edge.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Silence of the Siren renames to Heroes of Science and Fiction to pull in more HoMM fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/sile…
#HoMM #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
Heroes of Science and Fiction is the new name for Silence of the Siren from Oxymoron Games, as they try to pull in more fans of Heroes of Might and Magic.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Lost Ark from Amazon Games appears to have enabled the anti-cheat for Linux / SteamOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lost…
#MMO #AntiCheat #EAC #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck
Lost Ark is a free to play MMO from Smilegate RPG and Amazon Games that was previously blocked on Linux platforms like SteamOS / Steam Deck but now works.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux
Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer...
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Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support
The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus...
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Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D graphics and modeling software is now available for download with various new featuers and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
A TUI Git client inspired by Magit. Contribute to altsem/gitu development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer
Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...
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Avowed from Obsidian and Xbox now Steam Deck Verified with Update 1.5 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/avow…
Avowed from Obsidian Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios is now fully Steam Deck Verified with the big new 1.5 update.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Blender 4.5 LTS arrives with Vulkan fully supported and lots of performance improvements gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/blen…
A big day in Blender land with the arrival of Blender 4.5 LTS, finally bringing Vulkan up to full supported status with it matching OpenGL.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam adds Trade Protected Items starting with Counter-Strike 2, along with a bit of Half-Life fan trolling gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stea…
#CS2 #Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming
Counter-Strike 2 has begun a new season, and Valve added a new feature called Trade Protected Items and they're poking fun at Half-Life fans too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valv…
#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming
Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
It has long been curious to me how sex (or even involved romantic relationships) are beyond the pale in video games but ultraviolence is the accepted central premise of the game.
Imagine an Assassin’s Creed where the several thousand body count referred to the number of satisfied sexual partners rather than decapitated guards.
: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by botsThomas Claburn (The Register)
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffslxer.com
: Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier optionsThomas Claburn (The Register)
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freezelxer.com
The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.8 rolls out with updated packages, kernel 6.1 LTS, desktop refreshes, and GIMP preinstalled in live media.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
เวลาพูดถึงอุบัติเหตุโรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์ เรามักนึกถึงเชอร์โนบิลกับฟุกุชิมะ แต่มีอีกแห่งที่เคยเกิดตั้งแต่ปี 1979 (2522) คือ Three Mile Island ที่รัฐเพนซิลเวเนีย USA:
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เหตุเกิดกับ Unit-2 ซึ่งต้องปิดตัวหลังเกิดเหตุ แต่ Unit-1 ยังเปิดทำงานต่อไป จนปิดตัวลงในปี 2019 (2562) และมีกำหนดจะเปิดทำงานอีกครั้งในปี 2027 (2570) นี้ เพื่อจ่ายพลังงานให้ data center ของ Microsoft:
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Following below is the step by step review of recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqe5Hs00Go&t=686s posted by Stephan Raabe . No...lxer.com
KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.
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#kde #linux #opensource
"dracut is a powerful tool used in Fedora, RHEL, and other distributions to create and manage initramfs images—the initial RAM filesystem used during system boot. Unlike older tools like mkinitrd, dracut uses a modular approach, allowing you to build minimal or specialized initramfs tailored to your system."
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#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #dracut
Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)
🎬✨ Where open source reliability powers the magic behind every frame.
#AlmaLinuxDayVancouver is happening Aug 9th!
Artists, pipeline devs, and system engineers who make up the backbone of VFX, this day is for you! 🐧
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...
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VirtualBox 7.1.12 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improved support for Linux kernel 6.16.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...
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Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driverwww.phoronix.com
: Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open sourceLindsay Clark (The Register)
Just thinking how much annually careless car drivers take from us....
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#WarOnCars #FaujaSingh #Marathons
Singh’s east London running club confirms death in India of athlete thought to be first centenarian to run a marathonJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
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