Proposed code for Blender’s EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked…

Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit…

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edgesAvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications — platforms Microsoft’s own cross-platform .NET framework lacks — but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.…

A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device. After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common scenario these days of having multiple batteries per device, the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to address this limitation…

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms “BLAS” library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors…

Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new “RDNA 4m” branding. It’s part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new “4m” branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added…

KubeCon Europe is running this week in Amsterdam and NVIDIA used the event to talk up their open-source work around AI and newest open-source contributions…

GrapheneOS, an open-source Android-based mobile OS, will not implement OS-level age verification, despite regulatory pressure.

The openSUSE project released the Agama 19 web-based installer for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS operating systems, a major release that introduces several new features, small improvements, and bug fixes.

Blivet GUI is an advanced graphical storage and partition management tool for Fedora, providing a user-friendly interface for the backend storage library used in the Anaconda installer. It acts as a more powerful alternative to GParted, allowing users to create, modify, delete, and encrypt storage devices (LVM, Btrfs, RAID) with a staged, “apply-on-demand” approach.

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OpenShot 3.5 open-source video editor is now available for download with new default timeline, experimental ComfyUI integration, and more. Here’s what’s new!

The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it’s now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year…

Arch-based Garuda Linux clarifies its position on age verification and addresses concerns regarding systemd userdb and data management.

Following today’s article exploring the performance benefits of Intel Flexible Return and Event Delivery “FRED” with Panther Lake and also pointing out the rather obscure nature of FRED being disabled-by-default, an Intel Linux kernel engineer posted a patch to now enable FRED by default for better performance…

Cloudflare’s technical blog posts about their hardware and software efforts are always a treat to read. Their latest fascinating technical content is on their newest “Gen 13” server platform based around AMD EPYC Turin where they are now achieving 2x throughput and 50% better performance-per-Watt thanks to these latest-generation AMD EPYC server processors paired with software improvements too…

Mozilla has published today the final builds of the Firefox 149 open-source web browser ahead of its official unveiling on March 24th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

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DietPi 10.2 adds Immich, Immich Machine Learning, uv, and RustDesk Client, alongside tool improvements, configuration updates, and multiple bug fixes.

Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It’s been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire…