Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 44 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]

Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it’s been… extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD’s own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs becoming useful on Linux and able to handle LLMs…

With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases — especially with Mutter 50 having some NVIDIA optimizations. In today’s article is a first look at how the NVIDIA Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 26.04 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.10 release.

Gateworks has introduced the GW16168, an M.2 AI acceleration card designed to add dedicated neural network processing to embedded and industrial systems. The module integrates NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit (DNPU) and is designed, tested, and assembled in the United States for industrial edge AI deployments. The GW16168 uses NXP’s Ara240 DNPU to deliver […]

The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support. Now with today’s D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan…

Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes…

Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed patches from a SUSE engineer, the IPv6 networking stack would be limited to being a kernel built-in or not at all. In doing away with IPv6 as a loadable kernel module would allow simplifying some code and lowering the Linux networking maintenance burden…

Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026…

Intel’s Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week…

Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform…

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Adriaan de Groot released Calamares 3.4.2 today as a new maintenance update in the latest Calamares 3.4 series of this popular graphical installer for Linux distros with various improvements like support for Plasma Login Manager.

KeePassXC 2.7.12 open-source password manager adds nested folder support for Bitwarden imports, a TIMEOTP Auto-Type placeholder, and more.

The Fedora Project released today the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 44 for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

The advent of lazy imports in the Python language is upon us, now that PEP 810 (“Explicit lazy
imports”) was accepted by the steering
council and the feature will appear in the upcoming Python 3.15 release
in October. There are a number of good reasons,
performance foremost, for wanting to defer spending—perhaps wasting—the
time to do an import before a needed symbol is used. However, there are
also good reasons not to want that behavior, at least in some cases. The
tension between those two positions is what led to an earlier PEP rejection,
but it is also playing into a recent discussion of the API used to control
lazy imports.

The advent of lazy imports in the Python language is upon us, now that PEP 810 (“Explicit lazy
imports”) was accepted by the steering
council and the feature will appear in the upcoming Python 3.15 release
in October. There are a number of good reasons,
performance foremost, for wanting to defer spending—perhaps wasting—the
time to do an import before a needed symbol is used. However, there are
also good reasons not to want that behavior, at least in some cases. The
tension between those two positions is what led to an earlier PEP rejection,
but it is also playing into a recent discussion of the API used to control
lazy imports.

Reuters is reporting
that private-equity firm EQT may be looking to sell SUSE:

EQT has hired investment bank Arma Partners to sound out a group of
private equity investors for a possible sale of the company, said the
sources, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential matters. The
​deliberations are at an early stage and there is no certainty that EQT
will ​proceed with a transaction, the sources said.

SUSE has traded hands a number of times over the years. Most
recently it was acquired by
EQT in 2018, was listed
on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2021, and then taken
private again by EQT in August 2023.

Debian is the latest in an ever-growing list of projects to wrestle (again)
with the question of LLM-generated contributions; the latest debate stared in
mid-February, after
Lucas Nussbaum opened a
discussion with a draft general resolution (GR) on whether Debian should
accept AI-assisted contributions. It seems to have, mostly, subsided without a GR
being put forward or any decisions being made, but the conversation was illuminating
nonetheless.

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today, which brings a few interesting new features related to their hardware surveys and Steam user reviews, as well as improvements for Proton games on Linux, and other changes.

But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open sourceAfter a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.…