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Toot, toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Major Update
Tuba 0.10 features a redesigned post composer, YouTube playback, timeline tweaks and more, making this open-source Linux Mastodon client even better. You're reading Toot, toot: Linux Mastodon App Tuba Gets a Major Update, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. ...
2025-08-05 18:04
PCI Express 8.0 Aims For 256 GT/s In 2028
The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...
2025-08-05 17:01
Anaconda Web UI Installer for Spins and Editions Test Days: August 4 – 8 2025
Join us this week for the Anaconda Web UI Installer test week where we are focusing testing on Anacondas brand new WebUI for KDE and Spins live images. What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a grea...
2025-08-05 15:07
Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC
If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years...
2025-08-05 12:00
exFAT Fixes Significant Random Write Performance Regression With Linux 6.17
Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...
2025-08-05 11:00
Intel Upstreams libsycl SYCL Runtime Library Into LLVM
For several years now Intel has been working on SYCL support within LLVM and various related efforts like the LLVM SPIR-V back-end as part of their oneAPI ambitions and Data Parallel C++ across their spectrum of hardware. The latest hitting upstream LL...
2025-08-05 08:55
Raja Koduri Announces New GPU Software & IP Startup - OXPython For CUDA AI On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
Oxmiq Labs exited stealth mode today as a new startup led by Raja Koduri of AMD / Apple / Intel fame to focus on GPU software and licenseable graphics IP. Oxmiq Labs is a new GPU software and IP startup that has been in development for two years alread...
2025-08-05 08:33
SDL Library Lands Precision Scrolling For X.Org Usage
For Linux gamers relying on the X.Org Server, the SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed support for precision/pixel scrolling...
2025-08-05 06:52
FFmpeg Delivers Very Nice Performance Gains For Bwdif Deinterlacing With AVX-512
FFmpeg developers are known for delivering some really wild performance gains from hand-optimized Assembly code especially around Intel/AMD AVX-512 optimizations for various features of this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Merged this week ...
2025-08-05 06:38
Linux 6.17 Introduces hash_pointers= Boot Parameter
Linus Torvalds yesterday merged a patch from SUSE's Petr Mladek introducing a new boot parameter option for the kernel to provide greater control over the behavior of hashing pointer values...
2025-08-05 06:28
Intel Updates Legacy Compute Driver To Benefit Broadwell Through Ice Lake iGPUs
Last year Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support discontinued its support for Broadwell through Ice Lake integrated graphics to focus strictly on Tigerlake with Intel "Gen12" graphics and newer. Today though ...
2025-08-05 06:12
Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years
Flameshot 13.0 marks the screenshot tool's first major update in over 3 years, adding Qt6 support, disabling Imgur uploads by default, and improving its tools. You're reading Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years, a blog post from...
2025-08-04 23:01
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option
Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources...
2025-08-04 21:31
F2FS Sees New Improvements Merged For Linux 6.17 While Bcachefs Languishes
Sent out today for the Linux 6.17 merge window and already merged hours later were the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) feature updates...
2025-08-04 20:21
Chrome 140 Plans to Enable Auto Wayland Detection
Chrome's Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active. You're reading Chrome 140 Plans to Enable Auto Wayland Detection, a blog post from OMG! Ubunt...
2025-08-04 16:44
Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux
Chrome's Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active. You're reading Chrome 140 Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ub...
2025-08-04 16:44
Chrome Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux
Chrome's Ozone backend will auto-detect Wayland on Linux from v140. This should fix issues with blurry text and UI elements when fractional scaling is active. You're reading Chrome Plans to Play Nicer with Wayland on Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu...
2025-08-04 16:44
Git 2.51-rc0 Makes More Preparations For Git 3.0 Where It Will Use SHA-256 By Default
Junio Hamano announced the release of Git 2.51-rc0 to kick off the new week and the first step toward Git 2.51 as the next milestone for this open-source distributed version control system...
2025-08-04 14:40
AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 "Krackan Point" Offers Outstanding Value In Sub-$500 Laptops
Over the past three months we have been excitedly testing AMD's Strix Halo SoC with the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 flagship model as well as the Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 as one step below. Strix Halo offers excellent CPU and GPU performance capabilities at the ...
2025-08-04 13:25
NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 Available With Unified Arm Platform Support
Along with today's NVIDIA R580 Linux driver beta, the CUDA 13.0 toolkit is now available to download and depends upon the new R580 Linux driver series...
2025-08-04 12:49