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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 16th, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 16th, 2025, brings news about Debian 12.10, KDE Plasma 6.3.3, Garuda COSMIC, DXVK 2.6, GStreamer 1.26, KDE Frameworks 6.12, Audacity 3.7.2, digiKam 8.6, LXQt 2.2 features, Mesa 25.1 defaulting to NVK, as well as a...
2025-03-16 23:23
Linux 6.14-rc7 Released With v6.14 Final Expected Next Weekend
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel with expectations of releasing Linux 6.14 stable next weekend...
2025-03-16 19:05
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 Brings New Features For NVIDIA GPUs With Valve's Steam Play
Following the DXVK 2.6 release from a few days ago for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 atop Vulkan and ahead of the upcoming Proton 10.0 release for further enhancing Valve's Steam Play, out today is DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 as the NVIDIA NVAPI integration for use with DXVK...
2025-03-16 13:41
Arm Changing Linux Default To Costly "KPTI" Mitigation For Some Newer CPUs
For some newer Arm core designs, Arm is changing the Linux kernel to defaulting to enabling Kernel Page Table Isolation "KPTI" if not running on a new firmware version in order to properly mitigate a recently disclosed CPU security issue. This change h...
2025-03-16 10:38
Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15
For those that happen to have a Huawei Matebook E Go 2-in-1 laptop or have been considering these ARM laptops, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel will be better supporting these devices thanks to a new driver set to be merged...
2025-03-16 10:18
Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers
Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...
2025-03-16 07:01
One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes
An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...
2025-03-16 06:38
Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers
A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development...
2025-03-16 06:27
Debian Med Sprint in Berlin
Debian Med sprint in Berlin on 15 and 16 February The Debian Med team works on software packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences, and makes them available for the Debian distribution. Seven Debian developers ...
2025-03-16 00:00
Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Released with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is now available for download as a new point release to Debian 12 "Bookworm" with 66 bug fixes and 43 security updates. The post Debian 12.10 “Bookworm” Released with 66 Bug Fixes and 43 Security Updates appeared first on 9to5Linux - d...
2025-03-15 21:18
Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates
Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 "Bookworm" Linux distribution release...
2025-03-15 19:30
digiKam 8.6 Released with Many Face Management Updates and Improvements
digiKam 8.6 open-source photo management software is now available for download with face management improvements and color label usability. Here’s what’s new! The post digiKam 8.6 Released with Many Face Management Updates and Improvements appeare...
2025-03-15 12:26
Paid XR Desktop For GNOME "Breezy Desktop" In Open Beta With Multi-Display Support
The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with it...
2025-03-15 10:51
ReactOS Can Now Boot With The Windows Audio Stack... But No Sound Due To Bugs
It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a ne...
2025-03-15 10:26
Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14
The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel...
2025-03-15 10:16
OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux
OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a fe...
2025-03-15 08:00
digiKam 8.6 Released With Working To Better Its AI Integration
The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration...
2025-03-15 06:45
KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...
2025-03-15 06:36
Intel Compute Runtime Publishes Initial Panther Lake Xe3 GPU OpenCL/L0 Support
Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out ...
2025-03-14 20:22
KDE Frameworks 6.12 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes
KDE Frameworks 6.12 open-source software suite is now available with various bug fixex and improvements for Plasma desktop users. Here's what's changed! The post KDE Frameworks 6.12 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes appeared first on 9to...
2025-03-14 19:21