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TrueNAS 25.10 Begins Testing With Faster Performance, 400GbE Networking

The folks at iXsystems announced this afternoon that nightly builds of TrueNAS 25.10 are now available for testing of this Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) operating system. With TrueNAS 25.10 there are more performance improvements, improved...

2025-08-14 19:13

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Valkey 9.0-rc1 Taps AVX-512 For String-To-Integer Conversion For ~19% Gain

The open-source Valkey key-value database that is forked from Redis is preparing for the big Valkey 9.0 feature release. Valkey 9.0-rc1 was issued today and comes with some exciting performance optimizations and other enhancements for this in-memory KV...

2025-08-14 16:46

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Ubuntu 25.10 Continues Preparing For RISC-V RVA23 Baseline Requirement

Canonical is pursuing a rather ambitious baseline of Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V too require the RVA23 profile that will leave most existing RISC-V developer boards to using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 25.04. They continue to pursue this RISC-V baseline and wit...

2025-08-14 15:21

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VirtualBox 7.2 Released With Windows 11 ARM Support, Linux 6.16 Compatibility

Oracle today released VirtualBox 7.2 as the newest version of this cross-platform virtualization solution...

2025-08-14 12:50

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX Performance With TRX50 + Quad Channel DDR5

The newly-launched AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series headlined by the 64-core Threadripper 9980X and 32-core Threadripper 9970X offer incredible performance and a wonderful addition to the Zen 5 family for the HEDT space. But there is also the Threadr...

2025-08-14 09:00

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Intel's Habana Labs / Gaudi Accelerator Driver Maintainer Is Leaving The Company

One of the latest departures from Intel amid their ongoing restructuring is the official maintainer of the "habanalabs" accelerator Linux kernel driver that provides support for their range of Gaudi AI accelerator products...

2025-08-14 08:20

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KDE Gear 25.08 Released With Improvements For Many KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.08 is out this morning as the newest feature release to this collection of KDE applications...

2025-08-14 06:51

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AMDXDNA Improvements & New Rockchip NPU Accelerator Driver For Linux 6.18

Sent out today was the first DRM-Misc-Next pull request to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening around early October. There are a number of smaller DRM graphics driver improvements ready as well as continued work around the...

2025-08-14 06:36

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LibreOffice 26.2 To Better Handle Documents With Restricted Embedded Fonts

Next year's LibreOffice 26.2 open-source office suite is set to better handle documents with restricted embedded fonts. This is for dealing with situations where fonts may have restricted licensing rights and where up to now LibreOffice Writer simply h...

2025-08-14 06:22

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BeOS-Inspired Haiku Has Been Tackling File-System Issues, Better Wacom Tablet Support

Tbe BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has continued in advancing this open-source platform with more fixes and other enhancements. The project published its July recap to outline the interesting changes made...

2025-08-14 06:13

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Linux 6.18 With Nouveau Driver Will Default To Using GSP Firmware

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVID...

2025-08-14 05:58

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SR-IOV Will Only Be Supported On Intel Arc Pro Graphics Cards

SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards...

2025-08-13 16:36

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Linux Preps For New "SoC Power Slider" With Upcoming Panther Lake

While it looked like Linux 6.17 was going to be a good baseline for support with upcoming Intel Panther Lake powered laptops given that this next kernel release ships with the Xe3 graphics enabled by default and other bits coming together, it looks lik...

2025-08-13 15:18

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Linux Lands Fix For Early 6.17 Regression Causing 37~43% Performance Hit

Back during the Linux 6.17 merge window was an optimization geared for ARM64 that could have a "16x reduction" in the number of calls. Unfortunately that commit ended up causing a rather significant regression for some systems that has now been address...

2025-08-13 14:51

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Google Develops KFuzzTest For Fuzzing Internal Linux Kernel Functions

Google engineers today introduced KFuzzTest as a new lightweight framework for in-kernel fuzz targets for internal kernel functions. KFuzzTest aims to make it easier to exercise Linux kernel code paths that are difficult to do from the system call boun...

2025-08-13 13:52

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Intel ISPC 1.28 Adds Optimized Support For AMD Zen 4 & Zen 5 CPUs

A new version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler "ISPC" was just published for supporting that C programming language variant optimized for single program. multiple data (SPMD) programming that is optimized for Intel's various hardware offerin...

2025-08-13 13:21

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Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"

The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source d...

2025-08-13 08:31

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Clearing The Last ReiserFS Remnants: Documentation Cleanse Of The Defunct File-System

It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of Reise...

2025-08-13 08:18

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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges OpenAI Whisper Filter For Automatic Speech Recognition

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic spe...

2025-08-13 06:52

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WSL2 Vulnerability Could Lead To Elevating Local Privileges

Last week Microsoft released new versions of WSL2 for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability affecting their Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 implementation. Those details around CVE-2025-53788 are now public for this vulnerability that could lead to e...

2025-08-13 06:41

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