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Canonical Releases Multipass 1.16 As Now Fully Open-Source Project

Ubuntu maker Canonical today released Multipass 1.16 stable for this Linux / Windows / macOS means of deploying Ubuntu VM instances using this lightweight VM manager built atop Linux's KVM, Windows' Hyper-V, and QEMU on macOS. Notable with Multipass 1....

2025-07-10 08:25

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Linux 6.17 Looks To Drop The pktcdvd Packet Writing CD/DVD Driver

Linux block maintainer Jens Axboe queued up a patch this week to drop the pktcdvd driver from the mainline kernel, which is expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle. The pktcdvd driver has been in the kernel for over two decades since...

2025-07-10 06:50

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openSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support

The openSUSE project is currently contemplating if it's time to end support for 32-bit ARM devices...

2025-07-10 06:20

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libinput 1.29 Improving Scroll Wheel Responsiveness For Most Devices

Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.29, the newest version of this input handling library used across both X.Org and Wayland environments with the modern Linux desktop...

2025-07-10 06:06

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Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org

Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted...

2025-07-09 20:29

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Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support

A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support...

2025-07-09 15:44

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New ZLUDA 5 Preview Released For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs

ZLUDA Version 5-preview.43 was released today as this open-source CUDA implementation for use on non-NVIDIA GPUs, with one of the current focuses being on enabling CUDA on AMD Radeon GPUs with ROCm...

2025-07-09 12:55

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AMD's Epic Performance Gains From The Original EPYC 7601 To EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965

Last week I published fresh benchmarks showing how AMD's EPYC 4005 series for budget servers can outperform the original EPYC 7601 flagship processor when EPYC first launched during the Zen 1 period. Even with lower core counts and fewer memory channel...

2025-07-09 11:30

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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers

Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts...

2025-07-09 10:06

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Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of...

2025-07-09 09:54

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Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind

Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from t...

2025-07-09 08:58

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PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2

The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and oth...

2025-07-09 06:57

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Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs

Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within t...

2025-07-09 06:40

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Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APIs

Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within t...

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Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties...

2025-07-09 06:32

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PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features

The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...

2025-07-09 06:21

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Amarok 3.3 Released With The Music Player Ported To Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6

Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6...

2025-07-08 18:56

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GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS

Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long histo...

2025-07-08 13:52

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Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs

Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...

2025-07-08 12:19

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Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency

Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices. The launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix of the Framework 12 was ...

2025-07-08 12:10

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