Mesa 25.2.2 is out today as another on-time, bi-weekly Mesa point release managed by Eric Engestrom…

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0 adds BIND-style views, better API features, Lua upgrades, webserver Unix socket support, and more.

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FFmpeg 8.0 video and audio converter adds Whisper filter, Vulkan AV1 encoder, ProRes RAW support, and expanded codec handling.

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Discover essential nmcli command examples to efficiently manage network connections on Linux. Enhance your networking skills with our comprehensive guide.

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Dubbed “Huffman” and coming more than ten months after FFmpeg 7.1, the FFmpeg 8.0 release is here to enable TLS peer certificate verification by default, add an AV1 Vulkan encoder, introduce VP9 Vulkan and ProRes RAW Vulkan hardware-acceleration, and implement APV encoding support through a libopenapv wrapper.

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Discover the latest vkd3d 1.17 release, featuring enhanced shader capabilities for seamless Direct3D-to-Vulkan transitions. Upgrade your graphics experience today!

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Arch Linux acknowledges a persistent denial-of-service attack affecting its services. Stay informed on the latest updates and security measures being implemented.

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Discover the latest Calibre 8.9 release featuring enhanced annotations and improved plugin filtering. Upgrade your eBook management experience today!

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One of the planned changes for Fedora 43 was setting an expectation that RPM package builds are reproducible. Much of Fedora’s “reproducible builds” effort is already complete but this change has now been deferred to the Fedora 44 release next year…

A patch series for the Linux kernel scheduler code is queued up for expected introduction in Linux 6.18 to defer throttle when tasks exit to user-space. These changes to switch the scheduler to a task-based throttle model and task-based throttle time accounting can provide a latency win and also address a possible deadlock situation for real-time “RT” kernels…

Sometimes, you really do just need to run a Windows app on Linux and perhaps WinBoat might make this easier with its promise of “seamless integration”.

It’s not too often hearing PCMCIA these days as that defunct PC card standard for laptops from the 90’s and early 00’s. Back in 2023 Linux began dropping old PCMCIA drivers from the kernel while coming as a surprise today are some clean-ups for the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) subsystem code persisting within the Linux kernel…

Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver’s Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past few months…

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” is now available for download, with fingerprint authentication, kernel 6.14, Mesa 25.0.7, Cinnamon 6.4.8, and UI refinements.

Search isn’t the only way people find answers online anymore. Here’s how chatbots are reshaping how we navigate the web.

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Ghostty sets itself apart from other terminals by offering speed, customization, and simplicity all in one place.

OpenSSL 3.6 is now in public testing with a first alpha release, promising new features and improvements for this open-source, cross-platform, and free software library that provides secure communications over computer networks for applications and websites.

Learn how to install and configure Docker on Debian 13 trixie in rootful mode. Set up Docker like a pro using this step-by-step guide.

The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run AI large language models (LLMs) across different operating systems, hardware, and models is about to enjoy a nice speed boost…

CrowdSec 1.7 open-source IDS/IPS security solution adds cscli setup auto-detection, Docker Swarm support, WAF CRS improvements, and more.