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Wine 10.0-rc6 Released With Another 18 Bugs Fixed
Wine 10.0 is working its way to a stable release within the next week or two while for today there is the sixth weekly release candidate...
2025-01-17 20:17
A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 2 – Understanding NIS2 requirements
In my previous blog, we ran through what NIS2 is and who it applies to. In this second part of the series, I’ll break down the main requirements you’ll find in NIS2 and help translate them into actionable and practical measures you can take to achi...
2025-01-17 19:18
GNU Coreutils 9.6 Released With Changes For POSIX 2024, More AVX2 & AVX-512 Use
GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere...
2025-01-17 12:00
Many Exciting Features & New Hardware Support Expected For Linux 6.14
Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to addi...
2025-01-17 11:00
Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute...
2025-01-17 10:23
Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 oct...
2025-01-17 10:02
LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 For Last Minute Testing This Updated Free Software Office Suite
LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...
2025-01-17 08:35
Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load
Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot...
2025-01-17 07:02
AMDXDNA Submitted For Linux 6.14 With Kernel Accelerator/Graphics Driver Updates
Due to Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) lead maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat going on holidays the next two weeks, he's preemptively submitted the DRM/accelerator feature pull request ahead of the Linux 6.14 merge window officially opening...
2025-01-17 06:38
In Case You Wondered, RADV Doesn't Work On AMD CDNA Instinct Accelerators
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics driver team landed some changes on Thursday to the open-source RADV driver within Mesa around GPU checks for the hardware supported by this popular AMD Vulkan driver on Linux systems...
2025-01-17 06:14
RadeonSI UVD/VCE Video Acceleration Improvements Merged For Mesa 25.0
At the start of the new year I talked about patches improving AMD Radeon video encode/decode for older GPUs. That work to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's UVD and VCE support has now been merged ahead of the Mesa 25.0 code branching coming up in just ov...
2025-01-17 05:59
PCI Express 7.0 Remains On Track For 2025, v0.7 Spec Published
Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...
2025-01-16 20:25
Linux Mint 22.1 Released, Here’s Everything New
A major new release of Linux Mint is now available to download. Linux Mint 22.1 is the first update in the Linux Mint 22.x series and, like that version, is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and uses Linux Kernel 6.8 (though the distro plans to release...
2025-01-16 14:04
Linux Mint 22.1 Released, This is What’s New
A major new release of Linux Mint is now available to download. Linux Mint 22.1 is the first update in the Linux Mint 22.x series and, like that version, is built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and uses Linux Kernel 6.8 (though the distro plans to release...
2025-01-16 14:04
Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released!
The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia”. Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop ...
2025-01-16 11:56
The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features
With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...
2025-01-16 10:58
Gaming on Linux, How openSUSE Stacks Up for Gamers
Millions of gamers are facing a critical decision; upgrade their operating system, invest in new hardware or explore alternatives like Linux with the end of Windows 10 support in October next year. The good news is that gaming on Linux has never been b...
2025-01-16 09:00
Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux
Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo ex...
2025-01-16 09:00
AMDGPU VirtIO Native Context Merged: Native AMD Driver Support Within Guest VMs
An exciting change was just merged into Mesa 25.0 that has been about two years in the making... AMDGPU native context support for VirtIO to allow for using native OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers within guest virtual machines for better performance...
2025-01-16 08:43