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Category Archives: Linux
Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D
Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms…
GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes
The GNOME 48 release candidate “48.rc” is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks…
Samba 4.22 Brings SMB3 Directory Leases
Samba 4.22 introduces SMB3 Directory Leases, LDAP netlogon pings over TCP, and experimental Himmelblaud authentication for Azure Entra ID.
I Tried CachyOS, and Now It Might Be My New Main Distro
Distro hopping isn’t exactly uncommon in the Linux world, but have you ever found yourself switching distributions by accident? Because that’s exactly what happened to me when I decided to give the Arch-based CachyOS a try.
The FOSS Force Almost Open Tech News Quiz (3/7/25)
Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. Again, this week there are 10 questions. Good luck!
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Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year
At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface…
Huawei’s New Laptops May Run Linux, not HarmonyOS Next
Is Huawei planning to ship Linux on its upcoming MateBook laptops instead of HarmonyOS NEXT? A fresh leak out of China this week suggests so.
KeePass 2.58 Released with New Features Ubuntu PPA
KeePass 2.58 improved its graphical user interface with some new options. It added Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut for the ‘Show/hide password using asterisks’ option in report dialogs.
Ubuntu To Revert “-O3” Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations
Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over “-O3” optimized packages…
Zant – An open-source Zig SDK for neural network deployment on microcontrollers
Zant is an open-source, cross-platform SDK written in Zig and designed to simplify deploying Neural Networks (NN) on microcontrollers. It comprises a suite of tools to import, optimize, and deploy NNs to low-end hardware.
[$] Hash-based module integrity checking
On January 20, Thomas Weißschuh shared a new
patch set implementing an alternate method for checking the integrity of
loadable kernel modules. This mechanism, which checks module integrity based
on hashes computed at build time instead of using cryptographic signatures,
could enable reproducible kernel builds in more contexts. Several distributions
have already expressed interest in the patch set if Weißschuh can get it
into the kernel.
AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability
Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache…
GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes
The GCC “-fschedule-insns” option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher…
22 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools
System monitoring can help identify problems before they escalate to emergency status. We pick the finest open source solutions.
Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs
The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other machine learning tools and models. The ROCm SDK Builder takes special focus on the consumer Radeon iGPUs and dGPUs that typically aren’t as much of a focus for the upstream AMD ROCm stack…
Tails 6.13 Released with Improved Wi-Fi Detection
Tails 6.13, a privacy-focused Linux distro, improves Wi-Fi hardware detection, brings Tor Browser 14.0.7, and fixes partitioning errors.
MangoHud performance overlay v0.8.1 reworks FPS metrics, adds FEX stats, fixes bugs
Another new release is available for MangoHud, the Linux gaming overlay, which is also used for the performance stats on Steam Deck. This is a small follow-up release to the bigger MangoHud v0.8 released earlier in February.
Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15
Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It’s a big one…
PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More
The PipeWire project released today PipeWire 1.4 as a major update to this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams, and hardware on Linux systems.