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Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs
Merged a short time ago to Mesa 25.3-devel Git and marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.2 series is advertising Vulkan 1.4 conformance for NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs...
2025-08-04 12:36
Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
Entering RC Phase openSUSE Leap 16.0 has officially transitioned from Beta into the Release Candidate phase with the Build 148.4. The biggest challenge for the Release Team prior to Autumn release is source code management, as we want to transition bot...
2025-08-04 11:00
NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan
NVIDIA today published the v580.65.06 as their first beta driver version in the new NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series...
2025-08-04 10:55
AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements
Canonical engineer John Johansen sent out the AppArmor pull request today for the Linux 6.17 merge window that is heavy on changes for this Linux kernel security module...
2025-08-04 08:45
Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design
Why Fedora for Architects Architects depend on digital tools for every stage of design, from sketching to modelling and documentation. But many popular tools are expensive, closed-source, or limited to specific platforms. Fedora offers a fast, stable, ...
2025-08-04 08:00
Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland
Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland...
2025-08-04 06:44
Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory
In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the co...
2025-08-04 06:30
GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen
Along with the release of the Mutter 49 beta, GNOME Shell 49 beta was released on Sunday in preparation for the imminent GNOME 49 beta release. Notable here is long sought after support for having the ability to restart or shutdown the computer from GN...
2025-08-04 06:15
NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support
NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...
2025-08-04 05:54
Newelle, a ‘Virtual Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser or (increasingly, your IDE). Newelle, a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as a “virtual assistan...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, an AI ‘Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, an AI ‘Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from ...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, an AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, an AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from ...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from OMG...
2025-08-03 22:59
KDE Finally Gains Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching
KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally include automatic day/night theme switching, to change light/dark Global Themes based on the time of the day. You're reading KDE Finally Gains Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-08-03 18:06
KDE Plasma Adding Auto Day/Night Theme Switching
KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally include automatic day/night theme switching, to change light/dark Global Themes based on the time of the day. You're reading KDE Plasma Adding Auto Day/Night Theme Switching, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce el...
2025-08-03 18:06
GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes
The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September...
2025-08-03 15:30
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 3rd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 3rd, 2025, brings news about Audacious 4.5, GNU Linux-libre 6.16 kernel, 4MLinux 49.0, PorteuX 2.2, NetworkManager 1.54, and more. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 3rd, 2025 appeared first on 9to5Linux ...
2025-08-03 14:21
Intel QuickAssist Hit By Second Demotion In Linux 6.17 Due To Lack Of Kernel Benefit
A few days ago the Intel QuickAssist "QAT" accelerators were demoted by FSCRYPT in the Linux 6.17 development code due to being slow and bug prone with AVX-512 showing to be much faster than leveraging the QAT accelerators in this file encryption frame...
2025-08-03 11:24
Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17
Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Following that some developers stepped up to better maintain the co...
2025-08-03 09:34
Corsair HX1200i 2025 Power Supply Monitoring Now Works Under Linux
For those shopping for a high-end desktop power supply for use under Linux and interested in being able to take advantage of sensor monitoring capabilities, the 2025 edition of the Corsair HX1200i PSU can now enjoy working sensor monitoring under Linux...
2025-08-03 06:39