The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays…

Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the processFeature After a decade or two of the cloud, we’re used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always be so.…

This morning’s “x86/urgent” pull request ahead of Linux 6.17-rc4 being released later today has a fix for old Intel Pentium 4 processors as well as an Attack Vector Controls update for handling the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) mitigation…

Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst of Red Hat has merged a set of patches for this Rust-written open-source OpenCL driver to reduce the amount of memory allocations that happen and in turn helping reduce CPU overhead…

IceWM Is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this X11 window manager known for its speedy and simplicity…

Is your AI infrastructure built for the future? Guest writer Brian Dawson, product manager at CIQ, reveals surprising lessons learned while creating an OS designed for AI workloads.

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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) about Linux spread with help from the company that took Linux and turned it into a prison (TiVoisation at the “app” level).

The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2’2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on “bsd-user-4-linux” to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems…

Wine 10.14 is out with vkd3d 1.17, Mono 10.2.0, IPv6 ping support, Debian Trixie CI integration, and 19 bug fixes.

Platform’s staffer complains security review was ‘rushed’Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing early access to the company’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into GitHub Copilot. However, a whistleblower has claimed that the rollout suffers from inadequate security testing and an engineering team operating under duress.…

This week’s round of HID subsystem “fixes” for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware…

Niri 25.08 scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor adds xwayland-satellite integration, screen reader support, new logo, and more.

DXVK 2.7.1 was released today as the latest stable version for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, bringing improvements for various games.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.8.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.

The KIWI 1P5 is a compact, low-cost FPGA development board from OneKiwi based on the GOWIN GW1N-UV1P5 device. It is designed to support prototyping and education in digital logic design. The main FPGA used on the board is the GW1N-UV1P5QN48XF from GOWIN’s LittleBee series. It features 1584 logic units, 96 kilobits of block SRAM, and […]

Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer. DXVK 2.7.1 enables yet more games to correctly render now with DXVK on Linux…

GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project. GTK 4.20 brings improved support for Wayland on Linux along with platform enhancements for macOS, Android, and Windows too…

KDE developers remained very busy as they closed out the month of August. In fact, this week saw a 22 year old KDE feature request finally being addressed…

Immich 1.140 introduces beta background sync, read-only mode, and a location management utility, moving closer to the long-awaited stable release.

Slopfarms are a real pain and last night we said that they had slowed down a bit lately, perhaps because their operators too decided to take a summer’s break.