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Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive

Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive...

2025-06-30 11:56

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The Best Boring Benchmarks: Rocky Linux 10 & AlmaLinux 10 Performance Against RHEL 10

AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux remain two of the most popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives that are maintained by the open-source community. With the recent Rocky Linux 10 GA release that followed the recent AlmaLinux 10 release for re-basing agains...

2025-06-30 10:20

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KDE Improving Its Clock With Wayland Picture-In-Picture Protocol

KDE developers are improving its clock "KClock" app with leveraging the experimental Wayland picture-in-picture protocol support...

2025-06-30 08:55

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AMD Instinct Accelerators With So Much vRAM Have Exposed Linux Hibernation Issues

Too much vRAM and too many Instinct accelerators per server is causing system hibernation to fail on some high-end AMD AI Linux-powered servers. Having eight accelerators each with 192GB of device memory can in turn cause system hibernation to run into...

2025-06-30 07:07

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It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release

Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from ...

2025-06-30 06:46

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Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance

It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...

2025-06-30 06:23

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Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...

2025-06-30 06:12

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Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4

The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...

2025-06-30 06:02

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Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...

2025-06-29 17:07

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Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...

2025-06-29 10:33

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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...

2025-06-29 08:50

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Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...

2025-06-29 07:07

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GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...

2025-06-29 06:57

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AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...

2025-06-29 06:29

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Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.1...

2025-06-28 09:27

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RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 ...

2025-06-28 08:04

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LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs ...

2025-06-28 06:24

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KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

2025-06-28 06:01

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"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver ...

2025-06-27 20:32

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Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

2025-06-27 18:57

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